News for Friday, August 12th, 2016

• One of the news presenters for their local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) was eating fried peanuts on one of their local news programs for this Friday (specifically the one that appeared on their main broadcast channel between 10:13 p.m. and 11:11 p.m. this Friday (it was simply called "FOX 10 News")*) a few seconds after it had a report about other fried peanuts in their local broadcast area.

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Darwin Singleton) was referring to a reporter for a TV station outside of the TV market for southwest Alabama (Reed Cowan of KSNV-TV in the city of Las Vegas in the state of Nevada) by the name of the company of which their respective broadcast operations were members (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) while presenting a report attributed to that reporter on one of their local news programs for this past Tuesday on the ninth day of this August (specifically the one that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m from Monday through Friday in recent times (it was usually titled "Local 15 Today")).

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (John Nodar) was using the brand name for their companion station ("CW55" for WFNA-TV) while referring to characters for certain programs that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for the companion station in recent times while interviewing a person about plans for an event in their local broadcast area where members of the public could appear like those characters (this is what he said in reference to those characters: "CW55 characters") while part of a local news program that appeared on their own main broadcast channel this past Tuesday between parts of its presentation of a national TV program from their main provider of network programming ("CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) that day (specifically between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. that day).  

(*the program appeared on their main broadcast channel after it had some special programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) about a live baseball game involving two professional baseball teams named the Yankees (of the city of New York in the state of New York) and the Rays (of the city of Tampa in the state of Florida)