News for Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

• One of the news presenters on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Wednesday on the second day of this November (Jessica Taloney on "WKRG News 5 This Morning") used some parts of its broadcast (such as weather segments) to present jokes related to heat ("It's so hot" jokes).

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had special local news programming between 12:33 a.m. and 1:09 a.m. after having special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) since 6:00 p.m. this past Wednesday. 

• The news presenter for the local news programming mentioned in the previous paragraph (Bob Grip) presented some reports about his self and some colleagues of his (including some news reporters named Alexa Knowles, Candace Murphy, and Rebekah Hoeger; a producer named Carly Bragg, and a camera operator named Rodney Rocker) as part of that programming (the report about him (including a comment about a relative of his) involved a high school in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama; the report about the colleagues involved some games they played at a fair in Mobile as part of a contest named "the Media Olympics").