News for Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 (amended)

 (amendment note: a hyperlink to additional information was added to the second paragraph of this report)

• Between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday, the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had a computerized graphic with lottery numbers over the bottom-half of its programming feed for a few seconds when it had the opening sequence of an animated TV program from the main provider of network programming for WEAR-TV (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) named "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 6") this past Tuesday on the eighteenth day of this October had a report about a new curriculum for students of the public high schools in the county of Baldwin in southwest Alabama who may be interested in becoming broadcasters (some of the video in the report included what appeared to be parts of the previous set for producing local news programs at WKRG-TV (they were replaced by their current set for such programs in the April of the year 2014 )).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.) had a report about some members of their local news operation (including both of the news presenters for the program (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) and the weather reporter for their local news program for the hour of 4:00 p.m. (Chasity Byrd of "FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") being invited to read stories to different groups of students (from kindergarten "up to" grade eight) at a Catholic school in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (Saint Pius the Tenth Catholic School) earlier that day (the presenter of the report (Bob Grip) said he "led" a discussion about a book he said he read to one of the groups named "The Giving Tree" before thanking the school for the invitation on the program).