News for Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

• The beginning of the broadcast of 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 Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") was not the way its broadcasts usually began in recent times (its broadcasts usually began with an animated sequence with audio of one of its announcers (Jay Gardner) saying, "Now on WKRG News 5" and a preview of reports planned for its broadcasts (including one related to weather); as for the way its broadcast began this Tuesday, it began with a different animated sequence with audio of its other announcer (Jeff Davis) saying, "Now your News 5 forecast first" and a weather report by one of the weather reporters for their local news operation (Alan Sealls) proceeded by the other animated sequence and a preview of reports planned for its broadcast (there was no preview of another weather report for its broadcast).

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile started providing a matted version of the main programming feed for WALA-TV in place of the vertically-distorted version it usually had through one of its standard-definition cable TV channels since this past Monday on the twenty-seventh day of this March.  

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV had video from a traffic camera instead of the local news programs that had appeared on their main broadcast channel from the beginning of the the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Monday to the beginning of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday.