News for Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 (amended)

(note: some of the text in the first paragraph below was amended for clarity and a paragraph with information related to it was added to the bottom of this report (the hyperlink in that first paragraph was changed afterwards))

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a graphic about a contest sponsored by them over the bottoms of some of the local news programming it had this past Tuesday on the twenty-sixth day of this September (usually over parts of it with reports about weather and graphics about weather).*

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") had a discussion about football between a sports reporter for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) and a host of programs about sports for their main provider of network programming (Adam Zucker of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)). 

• An Internet video stream for WALA-TV had video of network programming (from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company)) for their main broadcast channel along with graphics and texts about the results of a certain election in the state of Alabama (for a person to campaign for a position in the Senate of the United States) this past Tuesday (specifically the programming the channel was set to have during the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. that day). 

• A Facebook page attributed to a news reporter for the local news operation at WPMI-TV named Megan Gannon had some messages attributed to her dated for the Friday of the twenty-second day of this September and the Friday of the fifteenth day of this September about their broadcast operation having special programming segments of a certain type that was usually part of their programming during scholastic years in their local broadcast area in recent times for those days ("Cool Schools" segments).

(*the channel had graphics similar to the one about the contest for other businesses over the bottoms of other videos about weather that were part of the local news programming it had before that Tuesday on a regular basis in recent times)