News for Friday, December 16th, 2016

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Thursday on the fifteenth day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a superimposed digital clock with the remaining number of hours, minutes, and seconds until the time a recent candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) was expected to be in Mobile this Saturday on the seventeenth day of this December.

• The news presenters for the local news program that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon of "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to be broadcasting in front of a Wal-Mart store in the city of Daphne in southwest Alabama on the edition of the program that appeared on the channel this past Thursday while one of the regular news presenters for Sunday editions of their local news program for the hour of 9:00 p.m. (Renee Dials) appeared to be substituting for them from their broadcast studio in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama.

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV usually had segments of a national news program from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) named "The CBS Overnight News" during the first half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday with "previews" of their local news program for the second half of that hour and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") since the Monday of the fifth day of this December in spite of the guides to their programming plans for the channel from Zap2it and TitanTV on the World Wide Web having had another national news program from their main provider of network programming named "The CBS Morning News" listed for that time period for Monday through Friday since then prior to it actually having segments of it during that time period this Friday (it still had a "preview" for the aforementioned local news program during that time period this Friday; specifically during the last five minutes of the time period).