News for Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

• A news release about a company named Nexstar Media Group merging with the holding (or "parent") company of WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV (Media General) this past Tuesday on the seventeenth day of this January was available on the official World Wide Web site for the one named Nexstar Media Group by this Wednesday.

• An animated sequence for the company stated to had merged with the holding company for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV in the previous paragraph appeared at the end of the last segment of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning").  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV on the evening of this past Sunday on the fifteenth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." between 9:13 p.m. and 10:13 p.m.) had a report about their local news operation being honored by a organization named People United to Advance the Dream, Mobile, Inc." and a member of the operation (a news presenter named Bob Grip) accepting the honor on its behalf.