News for Wednesday, March 1st, 2017

• Some of the special local TV programs about various activities related to Carnival broadcast on the last day of the Carnival season for this calendar year (it was also known as "Fat Tuesday" and "Mardi Gras" (the French version of "Fat Tuesday") were uploaded onto the official Facebook pages for the stations that produced them as they were being televised that day (the Tuesday of the twenty-eighth day of this past February).*

• One of the hosts of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV from Monday through Friday mornings in recent times (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") was one of the news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.").** 

• Some parts of some of the special TV programs mentioned in the previous paragraph had reports and commentary about an automobile hitting members of a marching band participating in a Carnival celebration in the city of Gulf Shores in southwest Alabama that day.   

(*recording of program produced by WALA-TV; two recordings of program produced by WKRG-TV; recording of some of the produced by WPMI-TV (it was set to appear on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WJTC-TV) where the others were set to appear on the main broadcast channels for their own stations)

(**the other news presenter usually only presented news for the local news program that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel on Sunday evenings in recent times ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."); as for the name of that news presenter, it was Renee Dials)