News for Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

(note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Monday, September 11th, 2017") was corrected) 

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the second half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. and the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV during the second half of the hour of 5:00 a.m. this Tuesday ( "Gulf Coast Today" ) appeared to have two of its regular hosts (Kelly Foster and Terra Reeves) acknowledging the first anniversary of its first broadcasts through those channels this Tuesday. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Monday on the eleventh day of September ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon)* saying some of its video (of Mobile Bay) was "shot" from a "drone" named after the brand name for their local news operation ("FOX 10 News") while presenting a report about the video (it was about some of the water of the bay being pushed by winds from a tropical cyclone named "Irma"**). 

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had some messages dated for this Tuesday about a weather reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Alan Sealls) responding to questions on a World Wide Web named Reddit this Tuesday along with video described by one of them as that of the weather reporter responding to those questions before 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. for this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had video of one of the news reporters for their local news operation (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) talking about the weather reporter having done so and the weather reporter his self talking about his having done so. 

• 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 past Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and the local entertainment and lifestyle program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Tuesday ("Studio 10") had at least one of their respective presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney for the news program; Chasity Byrd and Joe Emer for the second half) talking about a plan for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named Investigation Discovery to have a national TV program involving detectives for the office of sheriff in the county of Mobile in southwest Alabama in their programming this Tuesday (the name of the program was "Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen").

(*the name of the other news presenter for the program was Bob Grip)

(**some other reports about this phenomenon was posted onto a World Wide Web site and a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV)