News for Friday, August 5th, 2016

(note: all times on this weblog reflect the Central time zone)

• Between 6:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. this Friday, the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a promotional video involving members of their local news operation, various persons from outside their broadcast operation performing different sports, and the words "Go Team USA" during certain breaks in its presentation of a special network program about a special "opening ceremony" for a series of sporting competitions (the Olympic games for the year 2016) from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) this Friday.

• According to WPMI-TV, one of the local TV programs that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel on Sunday evenings in recent times ("Local 15 LawCall") was set to begin appearing on the channel on Saturday evenings (between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.) on a temporary basis on the sixth day of this August due to their plan to have special programming about the series of sporting competitions mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report that may come from their main provider of network programming during its regular time period for Sunday nights (between 10:35 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.) after this Saturday.

• Between 7:00 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. this Friday, the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had the same programming that appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WKRG-TV) instead of the one it usually had from Monday through Friday evenings (between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.) in recent times before having no programming of any kind for several minutes each before having the programming feed it usually had from Monday through Friday evenings (the programming that appeared on both broadcast channels was from the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)); the programming that later appeared on the main broadcast channel from WFNA-TV was from their own main provider of network programming (the CW).