News for Thursday, November 17th, 2016 (amended)

• The news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Thursday (Peter Albrecht and Devon Walsh on "WKRG News 5 at 5") used a report about a surgical procedure on a human eye at a hospital in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama to promote a new episode of a dramatic TV program from their main provider of network programming ("Pure Genius" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) involving a similar type of procedure set to appear on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Thursday.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m this past Monday on the fourteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a report about some members of their local news operation (Mel Showers (news presenter), Rose Ann Haven (news presenter), Randy Patrick Setterstrom (sports reporter), Alan Sealls (weather reporter), Peter Albrecht (news presenter/investigative reporter), and Melissa Constanzer (weather reporter), and the manager of their broadcast operation in general (Mark Bunting) shopping for toys at a Toy store for a project of theirs to donate gifts to less fortunate folks in southwest Alabama this December ("The Great Toy Drive").    

 (amendment note: some of the text in the first paragraph was linked to a page with video of two other news presenters for WKRG-TV (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney of "WKRG News 5 This Morning") talking about the report mentioned in that paragraph along with the report itself)