News for Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

• According to WALA-TV, lightning caused various technical problems in their broadcast operation this Wednesday.  

• WKRG-TV and WALA-TV each had a report about members of WAVH-FM and a company specialized in making signs named ABC Signs donating proceeds for T-shirts sponsored by their respective companies to help finance the department of police for the city of Mobile and the office of the sheriff for the county where the city was located (the county was also named Mobile) in their local news programming this Wednesday. 

• WKRG-TV had a "national correspondent" (named Jim Austin) credited under the name of a different "national correspondent" (named Mark Meredith) on their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") this Wednesday (the name was used in the introduction to a report narrated by the one named Jim Austin and a digital graphic that appeared over him in the report (the introduction was given by one of the news presenters for the program (Bill Riales)).