News for Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

• Some video of a type of programming segment for WKRG-TV not usually uploaded onto their official World Wide Web site in recent times was uploaded there by the Monday of the twenty-ninth day of this May (the name of the segment was "Mark Your Calendar").*

• A Facebook page attributed to a weather reporter for the local news operation of WEAR-TV (Allen Strum) had a message and video dated for the Wednesday of the twenty-fourth day of this May about their having a special program about weather planned for their main broadcast channel this Wednesday on the thirty-first day of this May.

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV from Zap2it and TV Guide had the name of the special program mentioned in the previous paragraph listed for a time of day when the channel was usually set to have programming from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) on a daily basis and the name of a program listed on a site associated with the provider as being part of their plan for providing such programming during that time period this Wednesday (an episode of a comedic TV program named "The Goldbergs") listed for a time period not listed as being part of their plan for providing such programming this Saturday on the third day of June for this calendar year (the second half of the hour of 11:00 a.m).

(*the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was usually set to have a segment like this one between parts of a national network news program from their main provider of network programming ("CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the last five minutes of the hour of 8:00 a.m. on a regular basis between Monday and Friday in recent times) 

News for Monday, May 29th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: the hours of the time period referenced in the third paragraph below were added to that paragraph) 

• The broadcast channels for WPMI-TV appeared to have no programming at one point between the beginning of the hour of 5:00 a.m. and the beginning of the hour of 7:00 a.m. this Monday.

• A message dated for this Monday about some video of a news report for the local news operation at WPMI-TV was uploaded onto a Facebook page attributed to WEAR-TV (both stations were members of the same company: the Sinclair Broadcast Group). 

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV was set to have a syndicated program about a parade in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia (the National Memorial Day Parade) in a time period when it was usually set to have programming for a national TV programming service named ThisTV on a daily basis in recent times this Monday (the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.). 

• The news presenters for the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WALA-TV during the evening hours of the Saturday of the twenty-seventh day of this May (Ashley Knight of "WKRG News 5 at 6:00" and "WKRG News 5 at 10" and Kati Weis of "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had both used the phrase "wrong-way driver" to describe a certain person in reports about an accident in their local broadcast areas earlier that Saturday on their respective programs.*

(*the news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the same evening (Lance Crawford of "Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") did not refer to that person while presenting a report about the same accident)

News for Sunday, May 28th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV was not set to have a new edition of a national TV program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs that was usually part of its regular programming plan for Sunday in recent times (the program was usually provided by their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) under the name "Meet the Press"). 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had the same edition (or installment) of a local TV program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs during the same time period every Sunday this May (the name of the program was "Rise and Shine" ; the time period in which this edition of it was usually part of its programming for every one of those Sundays, including this Sunday, was the second half of the hour of 5:00 a.m.; as for what this particular edition of the program was mainly about, it was mainly about the current presidency of the United States (it had these words in its subtitle in reference to its discussion about the presidency: "President [Donald] Trump" and "the good, bad, and the ugly")).** 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a syndicated episode of a comedic TV program named "Seinfeld" all ready in progress about seven minutes after the beginning of the second half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. this past Saturday on the twenty-eighth day of this May immediately after having the last segment of a local news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") that began appearing on the channel about seven minutes after the beginning of that hour due to special sports programming from their provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) preventing it appearing on the channel at the beginning of the hour in accordance with its regular programming plan for Saturday.  

(*the edition appeared on the programming feed for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named MSNBC later this Sunday (parts of it were available through a World Wide Web site connected to it earlier in the day)

(**you may access some other editions of the program through this hyperlink and older editions of it through this hyperlink) 

News for Saturday, May 27th, 2017

• Another digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation of WALA-TV earlier this calendar week (according to the guide to its programming provided by TitanTV, the programming appeared to be that of a national TV programming service named Escape). 

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a message attributed to the director of their news operation (Chris Best) dated for the Friday of the twenty-sixth day of this May congratulating its staff for their contributions to the operation this May and the retirement of one of its camera operators (Gary Arnold).           

• The main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV both had a special program named "HURRICANE: Simply Safety" this past Friday on the twenty-sixth day of this May (the one for WKRG-TV had it when it was usually set to have a local news program of theirs from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30" during the half of the hour of 6:00 p.m.) whereas the one for WFNA-TV had it when it was usually set to have a comedic program ("The Andy Griffith Show" during the second half of the hour of 9:00 p.m.) from Monday through Friday in recent times.  

News for Friday, May 26th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV had a message dated for the Thursday of the twenty-fifth day of this May about one of their local news programs ("Local 15 Today") having a discussion between its news presenters (Kelly Foster and Darwin Singleton) and an analyst of politics for their holding (or "parent") company (Boris Epshteyn of the Sinclair Broadcast Group) that day. 

• Customers of the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile may or may not had received these statements concerning some of the programming feeds in the system either by physical mail or through a World Wide Web site for accessing information about their services with the system earlier this May: "Channel Lineup Update: Beginning July 1, 2017, Esquire will cease operations and will be removed from the Digital Starter package. On July 15, Universal HD (ch.208/1240) will cease operations and will no longer be available, and on or around July 15 Olympics HD Channel (1222) will be added to your lineup."

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Friday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had its news presenters (Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven) and one of its reporters (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) talking about a camera operators of theirs (Gary Arnold) deciding to retire from their broadcast operation this Friday and about how his decision to do so was celebrated by them this Friday (he was said to had been part of the operation for 32 years and known affectionately to them as either "Bubba" or "Big"; as for how his decision to retire was celebrated, one of them (the reporter) said it involved a party with friends and family of his).*

(*the reporter said the mayor of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson) gave the camera operator a "shout-out" while holding a "recent" news conference)

News for Thursday, May 25th, 2017 (corrected)

(note: the title of the news program mentioned in the third paragraph below was corrected) 

• Earlier this Thursday, the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had an advertisement about a radio station in their local broadcast area (WKSJ-FM) having a syndicated radio program named "The Bobby Bones Show" in their programming plans (the station was mentioned by their brand name: "95KSJ"). 

• 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 past Wednesday on the twenty-fourth day of this May ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a report about an episode of a national TV program named "The Great Food Truck Race" being produced in their local broadcast area (the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida, specifically the northwestern part of Florida). 

• Some of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV had used some of the weather segments of some of the local news programs that had appeared on their main broadcast channel between this Thursday and this past Wednesday to promote a special program for the channel named "HURRICANE: Simply Safety" (it was said to appear on the channel during a time period when it was usually set to have a local news program of theirs from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30" during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m.).*

(*the program appeared to be available on a World Wide Web site specialized in audio and video recordings named YouTube)

News for Wednesday, May 24th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WABF-AM had a message dated for the Monday of the twenty-second day of this May about a plan to have recordings of some of their radio programs uploaded onto a World Wide Web site attributed to them from that day forward. 

• Some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV had used the words "terror alert" to describe reports about an explosion in the United Kingdom on some of the local news programs that had appeared on their main broadcast channel since the Tuesday of the twenty-third day of this May (the reports usually proceeded animated sequences involving those words). 

• The beginning 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 past Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters state a claim about their selves based on presumption about some video of an arrest uploaded onto a Facebook page attributed to them earlier that day (you may access video of her presenting the claim through this hyperlink). 

Commentary on what was usually a program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10")

(note: this commentary was written on the Tuesday of the twenty-third day of this May)

I did not like hearing the hosts for the edition of the program ("Studio 10") broadcast this Tuesday (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) comment about reports of a bomb exploding near the location of a concert in the United Kingdom about to end on the Monday on the twenty-second day of this May or the fact it had video of a (very corrupt) politician commenting on the explosion (in a very rude way) as if this were a program dedicated to discussing news in general. I also did not like hearing one of the hosts (Joe Emer) talk about the explosion as if he sure they were caused by a group of killers as if there were reports confirming the idea that was caused by such a group ("Just unbelievable. What a bunch of cowards who perpetrated this act.")*. They should had kept what may or may had not been their personal opinions about certain subjects like the explosion to their selves and should had not allowed for the video of the aforementioned politician commenting about it. They probably should had not talked about it at all since their station (WALA-TV) all ready had reports about it in some of its programs about news in general since this past Monday.

(*here are some of his other comments about the explosion: "Every media outlet in the world has their focus on what's going on right there (in the United Kingdom) as they should"; "Just unbelievably sad and tragic news"; "I will never understand for as long as I live why someone thinks attacking innocent children is going to accomplish something").

News for Monday, May 22nd, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a promotional video about two programs that were usually part of its regular programming plan for Monday through Friday in recent times with an announcer not normally used in other promotional videos about its programming in recent times (the programs promoted in this video were named "How I Met Your Mother" and "Hot in Cleveland").* 

• Some video of what appeared to be a panoramic view of a studio for a local news program at WKRG-TV ("WKRG News This Morning") was streamed onto a Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV this Monday (note: the same page also had some video about one of those programs ("WKRG News 5 at 5 [p.m.]") having a "special report" about some video with the same type of view later this Monday). 

(*the announcer in the video referred to the programming feed for the channel by the name normally used to promote it in recent times ("FOX 10")) 

News for Sunday, May 21st, 2017

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WALA-TV, WPMI-TV, and WKRG-TV during the evening hours of this Sunday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." during the hour of 9:00 p.m and "Local 15 News at 10 p.m." and "WKRG News 5 at 10" during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m.) were not in agreement in their identifications and depictions of a certain person involved in a certain incident in the city of Saraland in southwest Alabama (the one on the channel for WALA-TV had her identified by a name not used to identify her on the ones on the channels for WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV ("Summer" rather than "Crystal") whereas the one on the channel for WPMI-TV was the only one to only have audio of her speaking (one of its reporters had said she did not want to appear on camera). 

News for Saturday, May 20th, 2017

• One of the cable TV channels in the TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile usually had a frozen picture throughout this calendar week (it usually had a live programming feed for a TV programming service operated by one of the public school systems in the county of Mobile in southwest Alabama (MCPSS TV for the Mobile County Public School System) in recent times). 

• The news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Friday on the nineteenth day of this May (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon of  "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had used the last few seconds of the program to present what sounded like tributes to a member of its staff beyond its cameras (the one named Lenise Ligon said she was one of the people who had worked "behind the scenes" of the program in recent times whereas the one named Bob Grip said she leaving them for "bigger and better things" and "dreams" (as for her name, the one named Bob Grip said it was "Xaviar Wallace"). 

Commentary on a silly question for an interview, an advertisement that sounded very deceptive, and a national TV programming service

• I thought one of the questions for one of the interviews for 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. on the Wednesday of the tenth day of this May ("WKRG News 5 at 10") was very silly and unnecessary, specifically the one it had for a report about a person being chased by something that its conductor (Debbie Williams) said was an "alligator" (this is what she said that I thought was very silly and unnecessary: "Did you hear the music in the back of your head--the ba-dum...ba-dum?" (I had presumed she was recalling a certain tune used in a movie named "Jaws" )).

• Some of the local news programs for the local news operation at WKRG-TV that appeared on their main broadcast channel on the Friday of the nineteenth day of this May had an advertisement that sounded very deceptive about a report set to appear on one of those programs ("WKRG News 5 at 5 [p.m.]") on the Monday of the twenty-second day of this May (its presenter (a news reporter named Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) had paused between some of the words he had used to promote this report ("For the first time at WKRG: A three hundred and sixty degree report on television...from the motorcycle of a daredevil" (the pause was between the words "television" and "from"))). 

• I had noticed several reports on the World Wide Web site Twitter about a satellite TV company named Dish Network having programming for a national TV programming service named BUZZR added to their satellite TV system earlier this calendar week before checking with their official World Wide Web site to confirm whether these reports was true or not since I was not one of their customers or anywhere near a TV set connected to the system. I was able to do so upon visiting their site and seeing the name for the service listed among the programming services for which they were an affiliate (I still hope someone local starts broadcasting programming from BUZZR on a regular basis soon; it would be something I would want to watch on a frequent basis if I were able to do so, whether it be through a local TV station or through a satellite TV system like the one for Dish Network).

News for Thursday, May 18th, 2017

• The main broadcast channels for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV had this advertisement about a member of the Senate of the United States from Alabama named Luther Strange during breaks from local news programming this past Wednesday on the seventeenth day of this May.  

• 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 Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had what appeared to be an update to a special report they had in their programming earlier this calendar year (it was about two members of the broadcast operation comparing two cities in their local broadcast area (the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama and the city of Pensacola in northwest Florida (their designated market area was also named after them, along with another city in their local broadcast area (the city of Fort Walton Beach in northwest Florida)). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 5") had a report about a member of their local news operation (Melissa Constanzer) and other folks claiming to had seen a person with a knife at a park last Sunday on the fourteenth day of this May (the member was not referenced the way most persons over the age of 18* were usually referenced in their local news programming in recent times (she was called by only her first name (or forename) after the first reference to her rather than by only last name (or surname)).   

(*they had reports in which certain persons stated as being over the age of 60 were referenced by the words "mister" and "miss" along with their last names after the first references to them)

Commentary on dramatic language in news reporting, an addiction to "breaking news", and an old brand name

• I would had not used words like "big", "bad", "gigantic", and "wow" to describe a series of automobile accidents on 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. on the Wednesday of the third day of this May ("WKRG News 5 at 10"). 

• I had noticed more proclamations of "breaking news" in the first segments of recent editions of local news programs for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV in recent times (especially on Monday through Friday editions of the one that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m in recent times.). For example, the first segment of the one that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV on the Wednesday of the third day of this May ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") began with an animated sequence involving the words "breaking news" and audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying they were following "three breaking news stories" while videos related to those "stories" appeared.   

• I had noticed the name "TV5" was used in reference to a TV station in the city of Saginaw in the state of Michigan in a news report attributed to them during a visit to the official World Wide Web site WALA-TV earlier this May, since it was a brand name for WKRG-TV for many years between the calendar years 1974 and 1998. Personally I hope someone in charge of WKRG-TV decides to utilize it in their programming again (he or she could even make the name "NewsCenter 5" be the brand name for their local news operation again (coincidentally, the station in this city of Saginaw appeared to be affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) with programming on a virtual channel 5 just like WKRG-TV. Both of them also appeared to have had the same slogan for their local news operations in recent times: "coverage you can count on".)) 

News for Tuesday, May 16th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV had a special program named "The Rise of Terrorism: The Trouble Road" in place of a syndicated news program that was usually part of its regular programming plan for the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. for Monday through Friday in recent times (under the name "Inside Edition") this past Monday on the fifteenth day of this May.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 5") had a report similar to that of a report narrated by a member of the news division for their main provider of network programming (Kenneth Craig of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)), except that it was narrated by a member of their own news operation (Jessica Taloney).*

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WALA-TV and WPMI-TV this past Monday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." and "Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") each had video of what appeared to be a live news conference about a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from Alabama (named Mo Brooks) campaigning for a position in the Senate of the United States (the one on the channel for WALA-TV was the only one to have audio of (some of) it whereas the one for WPMI-TV only had audio of one of its news presenters talking about it over some of its video of it)

(*the news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Tuesday (Bill Riales on "WKRG News 5 at Noon") presented a "preview" of the report narrated by this member of their news operation (he said it was a "story" she was "working on"). 

News for Monday, May 15th, 2017

• One of the news presenters on 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. on the Thursday of the fourth day of this May (Rose Ann Haven on "WKRG News 5 at 10") said their local news operation was a "proud sponsor" of a certain fundraiser ("Cocktails with the Critters") she had mentioned in a report about it seconds earlier (she said it was to help to help a "sea lab" on an island south of the county of Mobile named Dauphin Island).

• Some parts of the set normally used for the local news programs at WALA-TV in recent times were used for an installment of a program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10") that appeared on their main broadcast channel this Monday (the parts included a group of monitors displaying single images and a separate monitor on a part of the set normally used for presenting weather reports for the news programs). 

• The hosts for the installment of the local entertainment and lifestyle program mentioned in the previous paragraph (Joe Emer and Michael White) made fun of the fact that one of its guests (a chef for a restaurant in their local broadcast area) had the same forename ("Jason") and surname ("Smith") as one of the weather reporters for the local news operation of its station.

News for Sunday, May 14th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV usually did not local news programming during the hour of 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday since the Sunday of the second day of this past April. 

• The news presenter for 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 past Saturday on the thirteenth day of this May (Ashley Knight of "WKRG News 5 at 10") used part of the program to present a report about a member of their broadcast operation (a producer named Olivia Stump) graduating from a university that Saturday.  

• The news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 7:00 a.m. this Sunday (Candace Murphy of "FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") used the last part of the program to present images of persons she said were the ones making it happen "behind the scenes" with their mothers along with the ones she said were of her self and her own mother and its weather reporter (Matt Barrentine) with his mother (video of her doing so was uploaded onto a Facebook page attributed to her). 

News for Saturday, May 13th, 2017

• Some video of an advertisement for a group of restaurants (named TGI Friday's) appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV more than one time during at least one of its breaks from having local news programming from WALA-TV earlier this calendar week.

• This past Friday on the twelfth day of this May, the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an advertisement about the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama "finally" having a new "fire chief" after an investigation attributed to the local news operation for WKRG-TV about the city not having had one since the calendar year 2013 (even though the person advertised as being "named" the new "fire chief" for the city was actually "given the opportunity" to be its "fire chief").  

• The news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 7:00 a.m. this Saturday (Candace Murphy on "FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") said they "wanted" to show the mothers of members of their audience in their programming this Sunday on the fourteenth day of this May (it was considered a day to celebrate mothers in the United States this calendar year) while talking about how those members could it possible for them to do so (she was encouraging them to do it). 

News for Friday, May 12th, 2017 (amended)

(note: the third paragraph below was amended for additional information and clarity)

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had two syndicated programs ("Wild About Animals" and "On the Spot") that were not usually part of its regular programming plan for the hour of 10:00 a.m. for Monday through Friday in recent times in place of the one that was usually part of that plan ("The Real") this Friday.*

• Folks who may had visited Facebook pages such as those attributed to local TV and radio stations in southwest Alabama on a daily basis prior to the Wednesday of the tenth day of this May may had noticed the pages usually had messages attributed to visitors like them in sections separate from their main (or "home") sections on a daily basis since then.**

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 5"), the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 6" and "WKRG News 5 at 6:30"), and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Thursday on the eleventh day of this May usually did not have monitors with live videos displaying different structures located in the down-town area of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (such as the ones named the RSA-Trustmark Bank Building, the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, and the RSA Battle House Tower) behind their news presenters by then (they usually had a still image of the same structures from a different perspective while a slogan and a World Wide Web address for the local news operation at WKRG-TV ("COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON" and "WKRG.COM" respectively) moved above some of the structures in a vertical fashion).***

(*the guides to the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide had the edition of "The Real" the channel could have had instead of those other programs this Friday listed as being part of its programming plan for the hour of 2:00 a.m. for the Sunday of the fourteenth day of this May)
(**you may access those sections by selecting the words "Posts" on the sidebars of those pages)
(***the monitors in the installments of the programs for this Friday had the static images that usually usually appeared in the installments they had prior to this past Thursday)

Commentary: Unprofessional descriptions

(note: this article was originally made this past Thursday on the eleventh day of this May)

I thought the ways in which the news presenters on the edition of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Thursday (Peter Albrecht and Devon Walsh on "WKRG News 5 at 5") talked about the host of a series of games for a syndicated program usually set to appear on the channel before the news program during the first and second halves of the hour of 4:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (Steve Harvey of "Family Feud") was very unprofessional (the one named Peter Albrecht said this during the opening of this edition of the news program: "And who's acting like a prima donna? Survey says...Steve Harvey" (a sound effect normally used for showing responses to questions in a part of the program named "Fast Money" was used between his sayings of the words "says" and "Steve"); he later said this while presenting news about the host (concerning a memo attributed to him) with the one named Devon Walsh: "But the memo is not great for Harvey's nice-guy personality". As for what the one named Devon Walsh said about the host, she said this about him before presenting the aforementioned news about him with the one named Peter Albrecht after one of its breaks: "Coming up after the break: Lovable Steve Harvey under fire for a memo he sent to his staff". 

News for Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

• One of the news presenters for the edition of the local news program appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday (Devon Walsh on "WKRG News 5 at 5") had attributed one one of its reports to a reporter outside of their broadcast operation (Mark Meredith) as if he were a member of that operation (she said, "News 5's Mark Meredith is at the White House with the very latest developments"); even the report itself had suggested he were a member of WKRG-TV ("Mark Meredith, News 5").* 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had reports about traffic conditions in their local broadcast area from a certain member of a local radio station in that area (Kenny Fowler of WBHY-FM) earlier than usual in its programming for this Wednesday (it usually during the hours of 6:00 a.m. as part of a local news program named "WKRG News 5 This Morning" and during its breaks from a national network news program named "CBS This Morning" during the last five minutes of the first halves of the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times before this Wednesday). 

• One of the news presenters for the editions of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Wednesday and this past Tuesday back on the ninth day of this May said his own name (Mel Showers) while promoting programs expected to appear on the channel between the beginning of the hour of 7:00 p.m. and the beginning of the second of the hour of 10:00 p.m. after their broadcasts (this is what he said when he did on the edition that appeared on the channel this Wednesday: "Then join Rose Ann Haven and Mel Showers on 'News 5' ("WKRG News 5 at 10") at ten o'clock").  

(*both WKRG-TV and the reporter were members of the same holding (or "parent") company: the Nexstar Media Group). 

News for Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. last Thursday on the fourth day of this May  ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a report about a fashion exhibition involving one of its regular news presenters for Monday through Friday (she was not one of the news presenters for its broadcast that Thursday; as for her name, it was Lenise Ligon).  

• One of the news presenters for 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 past Monday on the eighth day of this May (Rose Ann Haven of "WKRG News 5 at 10") had referred to a certain piece of legislation in the Congress of the United States named the American Health Care Act as "the so-called American Health Care Act" after initially using a nickname in reference to it ("Trumpcare") while introducing a live report about it by a member of their local news operation (Hayley Minogue). 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV usually had a weather report by one of the weather reporters for their local news operation immediately after having the last segment of an installment of a syndicated program named "Jeopardy!" and immediately before having the first segment of an installment of a program was also syndicated named "Wheel of Fortune" a few seconds before the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (it had a different type of programming segment between the last segment of the installment of the program named "Jeopardy!" and the first segment of the installment of the one named "Wheel of Fortune" during the same time period this Tuesday: an advertisement for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles named "Studio 10"). 

News for Monday, May 8th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had a program dedicated to cooking involving the owner and operator of a restaurant located in the TV market for southwest Alabama (My Dockside Café in the city of Niceville in the state of Florida) this past Saturday on the sixth day of this May. (the name of the program was "Chef Ernie's Cooking Experience"). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. this past Sunday on the seventh day of this May ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had what appeared to be video of a news report for a TV station in the city of Montgomery in central Alabama (WSFA-TV) without any mention of the name of the station. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 7:00 a.m. this past Saturday ("FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") had an interview with a person that its conductor (Candace Murphy) said was the winner of a contest for a company specialized in pizza restaurants (Pizza Hut) in which he could travel to as many "NCAA" (the National Collegiate Athletic Association) championship events as possible throughout the current season for such events (she said he was attending a volleyball tournament in the Gulf Shores in southwest Alabama while introducing him on the program; as for his name, she said it was Jason Zone Fisher).

Commentary: A ridiculous introduction and epilogue to a ridiculous news report

From 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 past Friday on the fifth day of this May ("WKRG News 5 at 10"):

Introduction by Peter Albrecht (a news reporter): "Well Mel [Showers] (one of the news presenters for the program), these are the--let's say the Laurel and Hardy of larsony, the Beavis and Butthead of burglary, and video of their of antics in Breland Machinery in Semmes has been viewed more than eleven thousand times".

Epilogue by Peter Albrecht: "And what's not too funny is that these two bumbling bandits eventually got away with the vehicle...".

Remarks by Rose Ann Haven (the other news presenter for the program) after the epilogue: "Beavis and Butthead. Thanks, Peter".*

(*I would had posted a recording of the part of the news program with the aforementioned statements, but I was unable to find a recording of it with the report on the World Wide Web)

News for Saturday, May 6th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had messages attributed to some of its visitors with responses attributed to its administration concerning technical problems with the main programming feed for WKRG-TV this past Friday on the fifth day of May. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Friday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a report about a member of their local news operation (Kati Weis) throwing a baseball at a beginning at a baseball game earlier that day. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Friday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a report about a person said to had been the wife of a member of their local news operation (the name of the member was said to be Bill Riales by one of the news presenters on the program).

News for Friday, May 5th, 2017

• 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 past Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had two videos in which one of their respective speakers were obscured with audible tones ("beeps" or "bleeps").  

• One of the radio announcers for WABF-AM (Lori DuBose) said their telephone lines were "down" on a program that usually involved telephone calls about items for sale ("The Gulf Coast Swap Shop") before saying the lines should be "back up" later this Friday (a Facebook page attributed to them had a message dated for this past Thursday about the telephone lines being "down" that day also).  

• The wall of a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV had a message dated for this past Wednesday on the third day of this May concerning an episode of a national TV program named "Big Bad BBQ Brawl" being produced in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (you may access video of the episode through a World Wide Web site attributed to a cable TV and satellite programming service set to broadcast the program (the Cooking Channel)). 

News for Thursday, May 4th, 2017

• Some video of what appeared to be a recording of some local news programming for WALA-TV dating back to the year 1984 was used to create a greeting on a Facebook page attributed to them wishing a "happy Star Wars Day".

• A Facebook page attributed to WABF-AM had a message about stormy weather causing them to be "off the air" earlier this Thursday and a message about their being back "on the air" later this Thursday (there was no programming on either their broadcast frequency or their live audio stream during the time in which they were "off the air" this Thursday.). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an advertisement about the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV) having a syndicated program that usually did not appear in the guides to its programming (or those of other channels for other TV stations within their local broadcast area) from services like TitanTV and Zap2it for any day prior to their having it for the Monday of the first day of this May (the name of the program was "Access Hollywood Live").*

(*the guide to its programming by TV Guide did not have it)

News for Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

• Some video of what appeared to had been a live radio program for Mississippi Public Broadcasting named "Everyday Tech" was uploaded onto a Facebook page attributed to them.* 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had some performances based on some scenes for a theatrical movie named "The Wizard of Oz:" in its presentation of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles named "Studio 10"  this Wednesday.

• A World Wide Web site for a company specialized in public relations (KEF Media) had some articles about the company having a plan to create a new version of a syndicated TV program dedicated to news that used to appear on the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV on a regular basis named "The Daily Buzz".  

(*southwest Alabama was usually within the broadcast area of one of the radio stations normally used to broadcast their radio programming by this Wednesday (the name of that station was WMAH-FM)).

Commentary on an interesting microphone, an extravagant description and some presumptuous phrases

• The microphone or microphones with a past logo for WKRG-TV in some videos dated for the calendar year 1995 on a YouTube channel attributed to them appeared to be larger than the ones I usually saw on the local news programs that were part of their programming after the calendar year 1997 (I did not see the local news programming they had prior to the calendar year 1998 very often due to my watching local news programs for WALA-TV more often by then (WALA-TV was my favorite local station for local news by then)). 

• I wish the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV would not use any of their news programs to say phrases like, "We first told you about it last night on 'FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m', and, "We first told you about it yesterday on FOX10TV.com" while presenting updates to reports that they or other members of the operation had presented on previous editions of one of those programs as if every member of their audience was actually watching and/or listening to them present those reports.

• One of the news presenters on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the eleventh day of April for this calendar year (Bob Grip on "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") said a news "story" that he posted a message about on a World Wide Web site named Twitter earlier that day "blew up" afterwards. he posted a message about it on a World Wide Web site named Twitter earlier that day. 

News for Monday, May 1st, 2017

• According to Alabama Public Radio, stormy weather caused the transmitter for their radio station in southwest Alabama (WHIL-FM) to be off from the evening hours of the Sunday of the thirtieth day of April for this calendar year (this past Sunday) until the morning of the Monday of the first day of May for this calendar year (this Monday).

• Two professional announcers normally used for certain parts of local news programs for WKRG-TV in recent times (Jay Gardner (for opening sequences) and Jeff Davis (for sequences about sponsors of the programs) were used in separate advertisements for a certain business located in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama in recent times (Beltone Hearing Aid Center).* 

• Two weather reporters with similar surnames (Chris Dunn and Jake Dunne) were interacting with each other on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Sunday ("Local 15 News at 5 p.m.").*

(*you may access video of an advertisement for the business with the voice of the announcer named Jay Gardner through this hyperlink)

 (**the surnames were usually pronounced the same way on such programs in recent times)

News for Sunday, April 30th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. this past Saturday on the twenty-ninth day of this April ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a report about a member of their audience winning a chance to tour their broadcast facility at an auction (the "viewer" was said to had bid $500 for the chance to do). 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had special weather programming from their local news operation and special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) in two separate boxes at the same time with audio for the weather programming taking precedence over the one for the sports programming this Sunday.

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV did not have a local news program follow the special sports programming it had from their main provider of network programming this past Saturday in spite of one of the announcers for the sports programming telling its audience to "stay tuned" for either their "local news" or a program named "NBC Nightly News" (the program that actually followed was an episode of a syndicated TV program named "Two and a Half Men").