News for Monday, October 30th, 2017

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Monday ("Studio 10") had an interview with a former sports reporter for the news operation at WALA-TV (Rob Lehocky).

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 5" and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") each appeared to have had live videos of one of their weather reporters (Alan Sealls and Jason Smith respectively*) doing reports related to weather from the grounds of a fair in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named the Greater Gulf State Fair.**

• 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. on the Sunday of the twenty-ninth day of this October ("NBC 15 News at 5 [p.m.]") had video of its news presenter (Andrea Ramey) appearing to express hatred for what its weather reporter (Jake Dunne) had appeared to say to her concerning a non-standard form of time ("daylight-saving time") usually followed in the United States on a yearly basis (this is what the weather reporter appeared to tell her, "Next weekend, daylight-saving time comes to an end, so we fall back one hour, which means our sunset, a week from today, Andrea, right around five o'clock, so it'll be dark now" after presenting a report related to weather; as for how she appeared to express hatred toward what he had just said, she was saying, "Let's just get rid of that. Let's just get rid of that; I say I hate that time of year when it's dark so early" (he appeared to agree with her afterwards before appearing to suggest that they "put it up to a vote" after appearing to tell her that "many communities are thinking about getting rid of the time change").

• 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 Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") appeared to have some video for a news report for the news operation of their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) with audio of a member of their own news operation (Jessica Taloney***) doing her own version of the report without any references to the provider or its news operation between videos of her used to introduce it and conclude it that also did not have any references to the provider or its news operation (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of the member saying the other program would have a "story" that "every parent and teacher will want to see" in reference to the subject of the report narrated by her whereas the program itself had audio of one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) before one of its breaks saying sounding as if he were promoting the report as one that "anyone with children at home needs to hear" before its broadcast on the program after the break.

(*both of them were usually called "chief meteorologist" by other members of their respective news operations in some of the other news programmings they had in recent times)

(**the local news programs that appeared on the channel for WKRG-TV during the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. also appeared to have live videos of the weather reporter named Alan Sealls doing reports related to weather from the grounds of this fair)

(***she was usually a news presenter for the local news program that was usually set to appear on the channel 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. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 This Morning"))

News for Sunday, October 29th, 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. on the Saturday of the twenty-eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a certain person saying, "What's that? Playoffs?" in a part of its installment dedicated to sports without any references to it (such as the name of the person) before having video of one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Robby Baker) saying, "All right, we're talking about the playoffs: college football playoffs" immediately afterwards. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV between the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6"* and "WKRG News 5 at 10") had their news presenter (Ashley Knight) presenting reports concerning one of the radio stations in their local broadcast area (WKSJ-FM**) being involved in a certain charitable effort along with a video of a person identified by some of their graphics as a person associated with the station (Bill Black). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second hour of 7:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") had its news presenter (Devan Coffaro***) telling one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Adam Olivier) they should start their own protest regarding time for "trick or treating" after having a video of a report attributed to a reporter for the news operation of a TV station unrelated to theirs (Melissa Reid of WJW-TV in the city of Cleveland in the state of Ohio) concerning "trick or treating" in the last segment of its broadcast (note: the news presenter said this afterwards as part of that segment: "Longer trick or treating time, more candy, more fun").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV after the special sports programming it had from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the evening of the Saturday on the twenty-eighth day of this October at a time when it was not usually set to have any news programming of theirs on Saturday in recent times had its news presenter (Steve Alexander Ozenovich) saying, "Still ahead on FOX 10 News: Halloween right around the corner; think you know that, and some of the most popular costumes this year featured characters that were big hits at the box office. We'll show you right after this" while some captions for an Internet video stream of it differed from what he was saying (the captions appeared like this: "Still ahead on FOX 10 News -- Halloween is right around the corner. And some of the most popular costumes this year featured characters that were big hits at the box office. The details right after this.").****

(*the channel had special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the first fifteen minutes of the hour of 6:00 p.m. before this news program)

(**the news presenter had referred to WKSJ-FM only by a nickname of theirs: "95KSJ")

(***she said she was "in for Asha Staples" (the name of the person who was usually the news presenter for previous installments of those programs for Saturday and Sunday in recent times*****) while introducing her self on those programs)

(*****the channel was usually set to have a local news program during the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. on Saturday in recent times)

(*****she was the news presenter for the installments of the programs that appeared on the channel this Sunday)

News for Saturday, October 28th, 2017

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m." and "FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") each appeared to have had some live videos of different persons speaking from appeared to had been remote locations with each of them holding a microphone with a logo for the news operation at WALA-TV and the news presenter for the programs (Devan Coffaro) appearing to interview them from the set of the programs.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-second day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had what appeared to had been two live videos of one of its news reporters (Devan Coffaro) expressing what might or might not had been her own personal feelings related to some separate videos they had between them related to reports of a certain tornado in their local broadcast area (a World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had a recording of the first video that appeared to had been live).

• 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 Friday "WKRG News 5 This Morning") had video of one of the news reporters and news presenters for their news operation (Peter Albrecht) asking its audience whether they hate driving on a certain road in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (Airport Boulevard) or not while introducing video of a report related to it (this is how he did it: "Well you hate driving on Airport Boulevard, right? It seems everyone does. About fifty thousand (50,000) vehicles are typically on Airport between Sage and Azalea on any given day. Drivers will tell you that traffic goes anything but smoothly").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twenty-sixth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying "students in Biloxi will once again be allowed to read an American classic written by an author from Monroeville" while video of a book titled "To Kill A Mockingbird"  appeared before one of the breaks in its broadcast whereas the one that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hours of 10:00 p.m. afterwards ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had audio of the same news presenter speaking of a certain event as one "that every high school student should attend" and that "it could save a life" before one of the breaks of its own broadcast. 

(*she said she was "in for Asha Staples" (the name of the person who was usually the news presenter for previous installments of those programs for Saturday and Sunday in recent times) while introducing her self on those programs)

News for Friday, October 27th, 2017

(note: some of the words in the fourth paragraph from the top of the report titled "News for Thursday, October 26th, 2017" were linked to a page with a video related to its subject and every appearance of the word "forth" in places where the word "fourth" was intended in certain reports published before the one for this Friday was corrected)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Friday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of a news conference for about fifteen minutes during the first seventeen minutes of that hour.

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Friday ("Studio 10") had one of its hosts (Chasity Byrd) appearing to express love for a certain group of folks (Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines) and her saying the folks had a magazine published by the holding company for WALA-TV (these were her words while doing so: "their magazine, the Magnolia Journal, published by this station's parent company, the Meredith Corporation") before having its other host (Michael White*) saying "woo hoo" afterwards before having a video concerning the persons and the magazine.  

• The first segment 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. on the Friday of the twenty-seventh day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") did not have any indication of the rest of its segments being dedicated entirely to football games involving teams for various high schools in their broadcast area before the first break of its broadcast in accordance with the first segments of its previous broadcasts for Friday since the Friday of the twenty-fifth day of this August (the segments of their broadcasts for Friday after the first of them were usually devoted to such football games since then (the segments on their own were usually called "Friday Night Football Fever")).

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video with audio of one of the news presenters for 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 Friday (Jessica Taloney on "WKRG News 5 This Morning") asking whether a script for the program was "literally a copy and pasted script" concerning the theme of a fair held in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama during the previous calendar year (2016) or not shortly a few seconds after presenting it as part of its broadcast (both the video on the Facebook page and the program had her saying, "This year's theme: prepare for take off. The fair takes flight" before having her abruptly say, "Actually, it's calling all superheroes" immediately afterwards in reference to the theme for a more recent fair (the sixty-third Greater Gulf State Fair) as for what she said that was audible in the video on the Facebook page regarding the script, she was saying, "Wait a minute, was that literally and copy and paste script from last year? The fair takes flight was last year's theme")

(*he was not a regular host for the program)

News for Thursday, October 26th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: information was added to the third paragraph below this sentence and some of the words in the fourth paragraph below it were linked to a page with video related to its subject)

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of a public meeting involving some of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Chasity Byrd, Matt Barrentine, Jason Smith, Michael White, and Adam Olivier) this Thursday whereas 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 Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had video of a report concerning it.  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the twenty-fifth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had what appeared to had been live video of a sports reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bri MacNaught) hitting balls with a baseball bat before and after having some video of a person identified by her as having been part of a baseball team named the "LA Dodgers" (Todd Maulding).

• 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. this Thursday ("Gulf Coast Today") had one of its hosts (Terra Reeves) telling one of its other hosts (Jake Dunne) that he must love "seafood" and that doing so was a "requirement" for him after referring to him as a "newbie to the gulf coast" after having a video of various persons in various remote locations appearing to express love for having certain sea creatures prepared as such food.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twenty-sixth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its reporters (Alexa Knowles) appearing to express what might or might not had been her own personal feelings related to some video of a report (concerning police using certain cars as bait) narrated by her immediately after having the video itself (this is how she did so: "And (John) Barber says he hopes doing these things will make people think twice about stealing someone else's vehicle. We saw a couple of people do the opposite; they actually called the car in saying the keys were still inside, so that was nice seeing good people doing the right thing. Reporting live at MPD headquarters, Alexa Knowles, FOX 10 News".

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-first day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family during this tough time" after presenting a report of a certain person having died before having her referring to some former holders of the position of president of the United States by words words commonly used in referring to members of certain political parties in the United States (the Democratic Party and the Republican Party) while presenting a report of their having attended a type of concert (this is what she said while doing so: "Democrats Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter, and republicans George H. W. and George W. Bush, gathered on stage in College Station, Texas, home of Texas A&M, putting aside politics to try to unite the country after the storms").  

News for Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the twenty-fourth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had a video of a report of some of the weather reporters for their news operation (Matt Barrentine and Chasity Byrd) visiting a school in their local broadcast area.

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had what appeared to had been a live video of a sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) conducting an interview with a person specialized in analyzing the sport of football for their main provider of network programming (Brian Jones of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the twenty-fourth day of this October.

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of a news presenter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) saying they had "the world's biggest TV" before having a discussion of weather one of the weather reporters for the operation (Jason Smith) and a discussion of some reports planned for the local news programming they would have on their main broadcast channel after having some special sports programming (related to a series of professional baseball games named "The World Series") from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) on the Tuesday of the twenty-fourth day of this October. 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a video of a promoter for their companion station (Victoria Blackmon of WFNA-TV)* in a costume similar to that of a certain fictional character on a TV program for their main provider of network programming (Kara of "Supergirl" for the CW) telling its listeners to join them at a certain tent on a certain night of a certain fair that might be held in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama from the Friday of the twenty-seventh day of this October and the Sunday of the fifth day of the month of November for this calendar year (specifically the night of the Friday of the third day of this November (she had referred to it as if were to be called "Superhero Night")).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV after the special programming mentioned in the third paragraph from the top of this report on the Tuesday of the twenty-fourth day of this October had its news presenter (Bob Grip) telling its audience they had a "programming note" related to the special programming and a syndicated program that was usually set to appear on their main broadcast channel during the half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (this is how he presented this "programming note": "We have a programming note for you: Since the World Series coverage (the special programming) started tonight at 6:30, 'Wheel of Fortune' (the syndicated program) had to be delayed, so if you want to record tonight's episode of 'Wheel', it will start at 3:30 a.m. (this Wednesday), so set your DVR. As for the score of the game, the L. A. Dodgers took home game number one with a three to one victory over the Houston Astros. Don't forget game two is tomorrow, so just like tonight be sure to stay tuned after the game for your most local news." (note: the channel was usually set to have a syndicated program named "Celebrity Page" during the second halves of the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. from Tuesday through Saturday in recent times).  

(*WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

News for Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

• 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. on the Monday of the twenty-third day of this October ("NBC 15 News ") had one of its news presenters speaking of a partnership between their news operation and their holding (or "parent") company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a video of what appeared to had been the hosts of a national TV program from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) named "Today"  saying, "It's good to be NBC" and "It's good to be NBC 15"  respectively (note: "NBC 15" was a nickname for WPMI-TV).

• 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 Monday of the twenty-third day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a report involving a person said to had been the "assignment manager" for its news operation without any mention of a personal name used in reference to him in addition to his being its "assignment manager" in an earlier report involving him that was part of the news programming it had this past September.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Monday of the twenty-third day of this October and the Sunday of the twenty-second day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had one of the regular news presenters referring to a certain person as a "loving daughter" while saying they had letter from her concerning her papa before presenting video of their being part of a special project for their news operation (the video in the broadcast of the program for the aforementioned Sunday was described by its news presenter as a "preview" of the one in its broadcast for the aforementioned Sunday).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV around the middle of the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-first day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6"*) had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying a charitable effort of theirs ("The Ace of Hearts Poker Run") was to "go down in history as a huge success" before introducing video of what appeared to had been a live report related to it by one of the other news presenters for the news operation at WKRG-TV (Rose Ann Haven) before thanking certain participants of the effort for being such participants whereas the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. later that day ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had her presenting another opinionated report related to it that involved her saying, "In...on a lighter note, back here on the gulf coast, the first annual Ace of Hearts Poker Run goes down in history as a huge success" whereas the one that appeared on the channel during the same hour on the Sunday of the twenty-third day of this October** had her presenting another opinionated report about it that had her saying, "It was a great success. A total of five thousand dollars was raised to benefit the American Heart Association. Bikers started early yesterday morning each paying twenty-five dollars at the Mobile Bay Harvey-Davidson and Harley-Davidson at Pensacola. They revved up their engines and headed up to various check points to draw cards hoping to draw the perfect poker hand. The tracks made by those bikers may help save others from heartbreak that comes from heart disease and that is reason enough to celebrate because every hand is a winner in the Ace of Hearts Poker Run. Thanks again". 

 (*the channel had special programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the first fifteen minutes of the hour before having the local news program for the rest of the first half of it and some of the second half of it).

(**the channel had regular programming from the provider mentioned in the paragraph above this one during the first half of that hour due to some other special programming of theirs earlier in the day before having the local news program it had during that hour)

News for Monday, October 23rd, 2017

• The main broadcast channel had WALA-TV had its programming appearing within itself (pictures within pictures) at least once sometime between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the twenty-second day of this October.

• A Facebook page attributed to a weather reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV named Michael White appeared to have had live video of him along with audio of his describing certain parts of the broadcast facility for the news operation during the broadcast of one of its news programs ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") on the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October. 

• A Facebook page attributed to Alabama Public Radio had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October with a hyperlink to a World Wide Web site for obtaining tickets for a possible event involving a possible visit to the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama by a national radio host named Garrison Keillor in the month of March for the calendar year 2018.

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had video of one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (John Nodar) shouting, "Touchdown Alabama!" in a way similar to that of a certain radio announcer who often said the same phrase the same way in some radio broadcasts of his in years past (Eli Gold) after the name of the announcer was mentioned by a person he was interviewing for a type of news program that was usually set to be part of its programming during the last five minutes of the first and second halves of the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (usually after having parts of a national news program from the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) named "CBS This Morning") this Monday (he said, "Sorry" to both of his guests for the program immediately after the shouting).

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Monday ("Studio 10") had one of its hosts (Michael White) appearing to respond to certain comments regarding some special programs related to weather that appeared on the channel in place of other programs on the Sunday of the twenty-second day of this October after its other host (Chasity Byrd) said they had give a "shout out" to some of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine and Adam Olivier) for some work she said they did that Sunday without being very specific to which she was referring (one of the reporters appeared on at least one of those special programs; as for how the host named Michael White appeared to respond to the aforementioned comments regarding those programs, this is how he appeared to do so: "They (the weather reporters) did such a great job and the timing is never great when it's during football, but to all the haters and the trolls out there who were writing these nasty things on Facebook and e-mailing them; there are multiple ways to stream games. It's just a football game. Peoples' lives are the most important thing and we will always put that up as the top priority. So kudos to them (note: both hosts were also weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (the one named Michael White was not a regular host for the program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles)).

News for Sunday, October 22nd, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV appeared to have a local TV program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs that had been part of its programming during the second half of the hour of 5:00 a.m. on Sunday on an infrequent basis in recent times ("Rise & Shine") this Sunday (the channel had a different program during that time period on the Sunday before this one on the fifteenth day of this October).  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 6:00 a.m. this Sunday ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m.") had its news presenter (Asha Staples) telling its audience that they were "sleeping" during a certain event while presenting a report related to it (this is how she did it: "Breaking news out of Mobile this morning: while you were sleeping, Mobile Fire-Rescue responded to an early morning apartment fire").

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 6:00 pm. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twentieth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30" and "WKRG News 5 at 10" respectively) each had a box with a portion of a video it was set to have with a news report beside a box with video of one or both of its news presenters (Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven) describing the report immediately before having it along with the rest of the video and the portion of it that appeared in one of the boxes outside of it. 

• The main programming feed for WDLT-FM had a type of programming that was part of its programming during the first half of the hour of 6:00 a.m. on the Sunday of the fifteenth day of this October instead of the second half of the hour of 5:00 a.m. in accordance to its regular programming plan for that period of time for Sunday in recent times during that very time period for this Sunday (programming dedicated to discussing news and public affairs under the name "In Touch Gulf Coast") before having the type of programming it had instead of it during that period of time that Sunday during the first half of the hour of 6:00 a.m. for this Sunday (music programming).

• A local radio program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs broadcast by WNSP-FM during the first half of the hour of 6:00 a.m. and WZEW-FM during the first half of the hour of 7:00 a.m. this Sunday had its host suggesting to some guests of his that they be his "co-hosts" for future installments of it and that they "throw in" plans for an organization of theirs (Mobile Baykeeper) after hosting with him as part of those installments before having him saying a plan to make the program "sort of a bigger thing in the future ("if people are interested in that")" was "in the works" and his discussing ideas such as having "musical guests" in future installments of it, making it " a one-hour show", adding "a little bit more variety" to it, "giving it a better time slot", and expanding it "a little bit beyond [the non-profit organizations and events]". 

News for Saturday, October 21st, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Friday of the twentieth day of this October stating one of the news reporters for their news operation (Hayley Minogue) was to have a certain type of lunch every "weekday" for a month along with a video related to it.

• 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. on the Thursday of the nineteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 5") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) using the words "only on five" to promote a certain video for one of their other news programs, specifically the one the channel was set to have during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. later that Thursday (under the name "WKRG News 5 at 6" ). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twentieth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had an animated sequence (for a segment of it dedicated to football teams for certain high schools in their local broadcast area ("First and 10")) with a nickname by which one of the news reporters for their local news operation was occasionally called other members of it some of the local news programming they had in recent times ("Hustling Hal" for Hal Scheurich).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twentieth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had an animated sequence (for a segment of it dedicated to football teams for certain high schools in their local broadcast area ("First and 10")) with a nickname by which one of the news reporters for their local news operation was occasionally called other members of the operation in some of the local news programming they had in recent times ("Hustling Hal" for Hal Scheurich).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV sometime during the hour of 11:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the nineteenth day of this October* had what appeared to had been a live video of one of its reporters (Allen Carter) speaking of having seen a "camera crew" near him in what appeared to be a remote location for a live news report (this is what he said while doing so: "Now when we got to the scene, uh, an individual was being transported by ambulance, um, and still no official word yet on what exactly the individual's condition is, but I can tell you just within the past few minutes or so, camera crews from 'The First 48' did come here to the scene. Um, as we know those are crews that document homicides here in Mobile, We have not seen homicide detectives here at the scene at this point, uh, but, uh, the very large area that they are canvassing, we have seen officers walking across the street, looking for shell casings, talking to witnesses").**

(*the channel was not usually set to have a local news program during the hour of 11:00 p.m. in recent times (it did so after having special programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) at a time when it was usually set to have a local news program on a daily basis in recent times (the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m.))

(**a World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV had some an article related to the report)

News for Friday, October 20th, 2017

• Some of the local news programs that had appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV since the Saturday of the fourteenth day of this October had some of the weather reporters for their news operation discussing the idea of their holding public meetings at various places in their local broadcast area.

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video of a sports reporter for their news operation (Robby Baker) conducting an interview with a person specialized in analyzing the sport of football for their main provider of network programming (Rick Neuheisel of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the seventeenth day of this October (some of it was part of their local news programming for that day).*

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had an article dated for the Wednesday of the eighteenth day of this October stating their broadcast operation was a recipient of a certain award at a certain luncheon in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama earlier that day (the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. that day ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." respectively) had one of their regular news presenters (Bob Grip) presenting reports similar to the article along with reports of the luncheon being hosted by a member of their news operation who usually presented news reports with him in previous installments of those programs in recent times (Lenise Ligon).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the nineteenth day of this October appeared to have video of one of its reporters (Toi Thornton) on its set not using names in reference to a certain person for one of its reports before having a separate video related to it that also had no names for this person along with imagery of an entity attributed to her that appeared to had been blurred whereas 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. later that day ("WKRG News 5 at 6") appeared to have a video of one of its own reporters (Hayley Minogue) doing a similar report concerning a certain person before having a separate video related to it in which names were actually being used in reference to this person along with some imagery of an entity attributed to her that did not appear blurry before having a video of the reporter referring to her by one of those names.**

(*the page had similar videos involving another sports reporter for the news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) interviewing other persons specialized in analyzing the sport of football for the provider in recent times)

 (**a World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV had a video of what appeared to be local news program of theirs involving similar reports with videos like those ones of the one on the program for WKRG-TV)

News for Thursday, October 19th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: certain details from a message mentioned in the fourth paragraph below this sentence were added to that very paragraph)

• The local news program the appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eighteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of a news report attributed to a former news reporter and news presenter for their news operation (Avery Cotton) for a TV station related to them by ownership in the city of Tampa in the state of Florida (WFLA-TV)* before having video of its news presenter (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno**) telling its weather reporter (John Nodar) that some viewers of the program might had recognized the reporter and that she would had loved the "cool weather" they had been "seeing" in an area he had called "the gulf coast" before having the weather reporter saying she had worked with them at the station for many years and that he was glad to see her before saying that it was lovely. 

• 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 Thursday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and the one that appeared on it during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. later this Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") appeared to have live videos of the news reporter mentioned in the previous paragraph doing news reports and interacting with their news presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney for the first one; Bill Riales alone for the other one) from certain remote locations (the news presenter named Bill Riales had referred to the connection she had to their news operation mentioned in the previous paragraph while on the first program with her (this is how he did so: "And if Avery (the reporter) looks familiar, of course she used to be on this broadcast right here. Great to see you again, Avery Cotton" (she did not respond to him on the program)).***  

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and Comcast on the World Wide Web had the names by which their local news programs for it were usually identified in its programming prior to this past September in recent times ("Local 15", as in "Local 15 Today", "Local 15 News at Noon", and "Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") whereas the guides to the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WJTC-TV)**** from the same sources had referred to their local news program for it by the name by which all of their local news programs were usually identified on their respective channels since then by the time of this writing ("NBC 15", as in "NBC 15 News at Nine" for the program for the channel for WJTC-TV, and "NBC 15 Today" for the program for the channel for WPMI-TV that used to be identified as "Local 15 Today" in its programming prior to last September).

• A Facebook page attributed to a person named Toi Thornton had a message attributed to him dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October stating he was to move to the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama to become a reporter for WALA-TV and that he was to start working for it on the Monday of the sixteenth day of this October (note: the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have him doing a news report for them from its set).

• 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 eighteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying a certain group of police had asked them to "air" a certain "story" involving a certain person of interest to folks like them again after saying the person had not been found by such folks (police).

(*they were members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program)

(***the video of her on the program named "WKRG News 5 at Noon" had her reporting having seen her "first arrest" at a protest near her location)

(****they were members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

News for Wednesday, October 18th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of one of the news presenters for their local news operation (Bob Grip) using a former slogan ("fair and balanced") for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service specialized in news (the FOX News Channel) connected to their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) while promoting their own news operation. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the fifteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10")* had its sports reporter (Robby Baker) telling its audience they were "probably sleeping" while a certain football game involving the football teams for the University of Washington and Arizona State University while presenting a report concerning it.

• The local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) referring to a TV station not related to its own station by ownership based in the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana (WWL-TV) by a phrase normally used in referring such stations in some of the other local news programming its own station had produced in recent times while attributing some details of a news report to them.

• An Internet video stream normally used for streaming local news programs for the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV in recent times occasionally had a graphic with a logo for their broadcast operation and the words "We'll Be Right Back" interrupt its streaming of a local news program of theirs within the first five minutes of its broadcast on the channel for a few minutes before having the rest of it (as if it were never interrupted) before a break in its broadcast on the channel since the previous calendar week. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno**) introducing what appeared to had been live video of a reporter for a TV station related to them by ownership*** based in the city of Nashville in the state of Tennessee doing a news report for them from a remote location (this is what he said while doing so: "Reporter Najahe Sherman from our sister station WKRN joins us live from Smyrna Airport with more on today's ceremony" (note: the second paragraph from the top of this report concerns the way the phrase "sister station" was used here)). 

(*the channel was usually set to have a local news program named "WKRG News 5 at 10" during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m before then in recent times (it had programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)****) during that time period that day)

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program)

(***they were part of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

(****this was also the main provider of network programming for the station unrelated to WKRG-TV mentioned in the third paragraph from the top of this report)

News for Tuesday, October 17th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the one hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Bob Grip) doing a biased presentation concerning certain electronic devices (this is what he said: "It might be an embarrassing moment for Apple: a new report says in its first month on the market the iPhone 8 is being outsold by last year's iPhone 7. Customers are reaching for the older Apple iPhone 7 because apparently they don't see any big difference with the new model. The iPhone 8 has a faster processor and the best camera ever put into an Apple smartphone, however the handset is very similar in appearance to the iPhone 7 which now sells for a hundred fifty dollars less". 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the sixteenth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to a reporter for their news operation who was not usually part of their news programming in recent times (she had identified her self as Elizabeth Rodil for some video of a news report attributed to her).

• 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") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) using the words "Bonnie and Clyde-type crime spree" to describe one of the subjects for one of the news reports she was presenting for it without explaining the "Bonnie and Clyde" part of it.

• A digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation for WKRG-TV sometime between the morning hours of this Tuesday and the Sunday of the fifteenth day of this October (its programming feed appeared similar to that of one of the digital sub-channels for WALA-TV (both of them appeared to consist of programming from a national TV programming service named Laff*).

• The local news program mentioned in the paragraph above the previous one appeared to have video of a professional announcer for various TV and radio stations in southwest Alabama (including a former group of radio stations named WABB-AM and WABB-FM) without any mention of his having been such an announcer (he was identified only as Barry Silverman in the video).

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV had some video concerning a news presenter for their local news operation getting married this past September and her name being changed as a result of it (from "Kym Thurman" to "Kym Anderson"**).

(*A World Wide Web site attributed to Laff appeared to have both WALA-TV and WKRG-TV listed as stations for which their programming could be found) 

(**the site had a profile of her without any mention of the name she had adopted after some of the local news programming they had on the Monday on the sixteenth day of this October had an animated sequence with an announcement and some text of that name)

News for Monday, October 16th, 2017

(note: the report titled "News for Sunday, October 15th, 2017" was amended) 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had video of the host of a syndicated l TV program that was usually part of its regular programming plan for the hour of 3:00 p.m. for Monday through Friday in recent times (Wendy Williams of "The Wendy Williams Show") saying the name normally used in reference to WPMI-TV in some of the local news programming they had in recent times ("NBC 15") immediately after saying, "It's good to be" in its programming on the Sunday of the fifteenth day of this October. 

• One of the cable TV channels in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile that usually appeared to have the programming feed for WJTC-TV in recent times still appeared to have that feed (it had some graphics that included the letters "WJTC" over some of its programming) after a digital sub-channel with programming similar to it added to the broadcast operation for WFNA-TV sometime between the Wednesday of the eleventh day of October and the Friday of the thirteenth day of this October. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 11:00 p.m.* on the Thursday of the twelfth day of this October had an animated sequence and some superimposed graphics with "News 5 at 10:00"  after having video of its weather reporter (Alan Sealls) referring to the program as "News 5 at 11:00" (the channel had special programming (concerning a game of football) from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the hour of 10:00 p.m. before then.*)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twelfth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Bill Riales) presenting a report concerning a sports reporter for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) temporarily joining a group named "Real Men Wear Pink" (for this October) wheres the one that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. later that Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 5") had one of its news presenters (Peter Albrecht) presenting a report about the reporter helping decorate an automobile with the name of the group and the first and second parts of his full name in addition to one about his having joined the group whereas the one that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. that Thursday had the reporter discussing his having joined the group and his helping decorate the automobile. 

(*the channel was usually set to have a news program named "WKRG News 5 at 10" during the first half of that time period in recent times).

News for Sunday, October 15th, 2017 (amended)

(note: an update to one of the paragraphs for this report was added below that very paragraph)

• A Facebook page attributed to a news reporter for the local news operation at WPMI-TV named Nicole Fierro had a message attributed to her dated for the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October stating that some colleagues of hers had nominated her for a certain type of honor along with some images related to it.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV around the middle of the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the fourteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) presenting a report of a news reporter of theirs named Hayley Minogue "skydiving" along with video related to it

• The broadcast frequency for WDLT-FM had a local radio program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs named "In Touch Gulf Coast" at a time when it usually had music programming on Sunday in recent times (the first half of the hour of 6:00 a.m.) whereas it had such programming at a time when it usually had this program named "In Touch Gulf Coast" on Sunday in recent times this Sunday (the second half of the hour of 5:00 a.m.).

• 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 Saturday of the fourteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") and the one that appeared on the channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Sunday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had their respective news presenters (Ashley Knight on the one for WKRG-TV; Lee Peck on the one for WALA-TV) presenting reports of a former member of their respective broadcast operations (Katherine (Katie) Hammond) being honored with a wheelchair named after her in a game of basketball involving such chairs (the plan to honor her was mentioned on a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV on the Thursday of the twelfth day of this October ("Studio 10") as part of a discussion concerning one of the teams for the game (the Mobile Patriots) and as part of at least one report concerning them in some of the local news programming for WKRG-TV on the Friday of the thirteenth day of this October). 

(update for Tuesday, October 17th, 2017: a video of the news presenter for WKRG-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph doing what was described in that paragraph was added to a World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV)

News for Saturday, October 14th, 2017 (amended)

 (note: the paragraph below this sentence was added to this report nearly two hours after it was originally published)

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. on the Friday of the thirteenth day of this October ("Studio 10") had one of its hosts (Sarah Wall*) claiming "everybody's kids" liked meatballs for a part of the program involving meatballs.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first and second halves of the hour of 5:00 a.m., the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m.**, and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Saturday, ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday", "WKRG News 5 at 6"**, and "WKRG News 5 at 10" respectively) had an animated sequence made specifically for introducing the weather reporter each of them had (Christina Andress) involving a voice not normally used in the animated sequences made specifically for introducing the other weather reporters for some of the other local news programming they had in recent times (Alan Sealls, John Nodar, and Thomas Geboy***). 

• A local TV dedicated to discussing various topics for WSRE-TV named "inStudio" had a discussion of how their broadcast operation came to be over the course of its existence in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the day it started broadcasting on a regular basis (the Monday of the eleventh day of September for the calendar year 1967) this past September (the anniversary was also a Monday that September) and a discussion of how a radio station near southwest Alabama in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida named WCOA-AM came to be over the course of its existence in observance of the ninetieth anniversary of the day their own broadcast operation started broadcasting on a regular basis (the Wednesday of the third day of February for the calendar year 1926) back in the calendar year 2016 (the anniversary was also a Wednesday).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV around the middle of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Saturday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying a "technical difficulty" occurred in its presentation of some programming it had concerning a football game involving the football teams for Auburn University and Louisiana State University earlier this Saturday before apologizing for what she said was a "seven-minute blackout" in its presentation caused by the "difficulty" before claiming engineers said the reason for it was due to a certain bypass switch failing and that changes were made to resolve it before apologizing again for it (she said it was for "fans" of "Auburn" and "LSU" while doing so without saying whether she was referring to the football teams mentioned earlier or to the universities represented by them).****

(*she was not a regular host for the program)

(**the program began appearing on the channel about fifteen minutes later than the time when it was usually set to begin appearing on the channel on Saturday in recent times due to the programming mentioned in the fourth paragraph from the top of this report)

(***he was usually the weather reporter for the local news programming they had on Saturday and Sunday evenings before this Saturday in recent times)

 (****the sports reporter for the program (Robby Baker) said this before one of the breaks in its broadcast (the next segment of it would be dedicated to sports): "Ashley, obviously we apologize again for the technical difficulties during the LSU-Auburn game, but if it makes you feel any better at home, we also missed it too. We we all in this together so we'll all be in this together in sports now as we get you caught up in all of the action")

News for Friday, October 13th, 2017

(note: a hyperlink (or link) to a section of a World Wide Web site with information pertaining to how some of the radio stations broadcasting locally to southwest Alabama were rated there within the past year (Radio-Online) was added to the list of hyperlinks on the right side of this site)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twelfth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") video of the holder of the position of president of the United States and the words "breaking away" while having audio of its news presenter (Bob Grip) summarizing news reports unrelated to the video.

• A digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation for WFNA-TV sometime between the morning hours of this Friday and the morning hours of the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October (its programming feed appeared similar to that of the digital sub-channel for WJTC-TV by the time of this writing (both of them appeared to have programming from a national TV programming service named Grit*)). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a local news program immediately after having special news programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) while it was still in progress during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Friday (the channel was usually set to have a local news program during this time period from Monday through Friday in recent times (usually under the name "WKRG News 5 at Noon")).**

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV had an article dated for this Friday concerning one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) and one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Devan Coffaro) getting engaged to each other (the local news program for WKRG-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph had its news presenter (Bill Riales) saying that he had wanted to congratulate the reporter named Joseph Blake Biunno on the engagement before explaining it whereas the reporter was sitting next to him (note: the news presenter had referred to WALA-TV as "the FOX affiliate here in Mobile" while telling its audience they may recognize the reporter named Devan Coffaro as a reporter for such an affiliate).***

(*the channel for WJTC-TV usually appeared to have programming from the service before the addition of the channel for WFNA-TV)

(**the news presenter for the program (Bill Riales) had referred to it as an "abbreviated" version of it)

(***A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had messages attributed to the administration of a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV related to the article)

News for Thursday, October 12th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video of a discussion about the sport of football between a sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) and a person specialized in analyzing the sport of football for their main provider of network programming (Aaron Taylor of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October. 

• A digital publication (specifically its forty-first page) dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October for a company specialized in publishing based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named Lagniappe had an advertisement about the programming feed for WZEW-FM possibly having eight hours of "coverage" of a plan to hold a certain type of football game involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and the University of Arkansas on the Saturday of the fourteenth day of this October.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) and one of its news reporters (Alexa Knowles) discussing a video of a certain person expressing love for their broadcast operation along with part of what appeared to be the video itself before having a separate video of his appearing to do a weather report and another expression of love for their broadcast operation.*

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the fifth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Joe Emer**) attributing a news report to a certain person ("Omar Jimenez") without saying whether the person was part of their local news operation or not before having video of the report itself (the person to whom he was referring had ended the report as if he were a member of the operation ("In Las Vegas, I'm Omar Jimenez reporting for FOX 10 News")).  

(*the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 10:00 p.m. afterwards ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had the same news presenters presenting reports about the videos along with portions of them))

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program by then)

News for Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a video attributed to its administration with some audio of an announcer thanking certain entities on behalf of WKRG-TV and other entities within a certain area beside a message related to it dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its weather reporter (Thomas Geboy) making this proclamation concerning the calendar date for this Wednesday: "Well, it's October 11th and it does not feel like October 11th".

• Some video of a news report concerning the holding company for WEAR-TV, WPMI-TV, WFGX-TV, and WJTC-TV (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) for a national TV program named "The PBS NewsHour" had certain references to WEAR-TV and WPMI-TV (its narrator had said "WEAR" whereas part of it had some members of the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Kelly Foster and Darwin Singleton) on what appeared to be the set normally used for some of their local news programs in recent times).

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. on the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October ("Studio 10") had its hosts (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) introducing video of some of the news presenters for their local news operation (Eric Reynolds and Sarah Wall) presenting video of a news reporter for the operation (Steve Alexander Ozenovich) doing a report related to a news conference concerning reports of certain persons drowning in their local broadcast area along with his particpating in the news conference itself before having video of the news presenters discussing his report (the one named Eric Reynolds appeared to express sympathy ("prayers and condolences") to one of the persons said to had drowned) before taking a break for the program (note: the rest of the program was based on its regular format (with its regular hosts)).

News for Tuesday, October 10th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Bob Grip) taking about having "shot" video from the "first commercial flight to land in Mobile" earlier that Sunday (it also had him talking about some of the video being on a Facebook page named after him).*

• 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") had a sports reporter for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) acknowledging a relative of his (a nephew named Steven Setterstrom) for one of its sports related to sport (note: this weblog had reports about the reporter not acknowledging his connection to the relative in some other reports related to him in some of the local news programming WKRG-TV had before then. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV a few seconds after the sports programming it had from their main provider of network programming during the evening hours of the Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("Sunday Night Football" from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) had one of its news presenters (Greg Peterson) referring to one of the news reporters for their news operation as if she were member of that provider (he had referred to her as "NBC's Megan Gannon" while doing so) while attributing some video of a news report to her before having the video itself.

• 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 Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) referring to a local TV station in the city of Biloxi in the state of Mississippi unrelated to them by ownership (WLOX-TV) as a "sister station" while attributing some video of a news report attributed to them before having the video itself, even though some of the local news programming they had before then usually had other news presenters for their news operation using that phrase in reference to TV stations that were actually related to them by ownership (note: WLOX-TV was part of a holding company named Raycom Media whereas WKRG-TV was part of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group).   

 (*A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of his talking about it earlier that Sunday)

News for Monday, October 9th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV occasionally had a video with the voice of an announcer claiming one of the local news programs for the local news operation at WPMI-TV ("Local 15 News at 10 [p.m.]"*) was considered the "best newscast at 10:00 p.m." in the state of Alabama by the Alabama Broadcasters Association while an award attributed to the association with some words about it being considered the best "regularly scheduled [TV] newscast" in an awards program for the association appeared. 

• One of the programming feeds on one of the digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV appeared to had been reformatted between the Wednesday of the fourth day of this October and the Saturday of the seventh day of this October; specifically the one that usually had programs from a national TV programming service named Memorable Entertainment Television (and nicknamed Me-TV) in recent times (it had videos with an aspect ratio of 4 to 3 appear either thinner from left to right or without portions of their top and bottom sides).

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV appeared to have video of a game of football from a national TV programming service named the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) before having video of another game of football from a separate national TV programming service named Stadium this past Saturday on the seventh day of this October (one of the digital sub-channel for WPMI-TV** had video of the same game at the same time since it was usually set to have programs from Stadium by then in recent times along with digital graphics that did not appear with the video on the channel for WFGX-TV)

• 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 Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had some of the news presenters for their news operation (Mel Showers, Rose Ann Haven, and Devon Walsh) boasting the operation as part of its broadcasts for that time period this Monday and the Sunday of the eighth day of this October (this is how the one named Devon Walsh did so in its broadcast for that time period this Monday: "Well News 5 is committed to bringing you coverage you can count during all major weather and breaking news situations. During our extended team coverage of 'Hurricane Nate', we were the first to alert you about live tornadoes and we're live all across the gulf coast as flooding started to happen. You can see even more of our 'Nate' coverage on our website, wkrg.com, as well as on our free mobile news app" (this is how the ones named Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven did so in broadcasts during the same time period on the aforementioned Sunday: Mel Showers: "Well News 5 had you covered for over sixteen (16) hours straight online and on air as the gulf coast braced for 'Hurricane Nate' ". Rose Ann Haven: "That's right, we began our continuous coverage just after the Florida versus LSU game (the one that appeared on their main broadcast channel on the Saturday) where more than a hundred and twenty-one thousand (121,000) of you tuned in to watch us live on Facebook. Many of you watched us on air or shared our Facebook Live coverage more than six-hundred and seventy seven (677) times. We were the only station to stick with the storm until the threat was completely cleared. We appreciate your viewership and we are glad you turned to News 5. We are coverage you can count on, even after the storm".))  

(*the program was renamed "NBC 15 News at 10 [p.m.]" last September)

(**WPMI-TV and WFGX-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

News for Sunday, October 8th, 2017

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV had an article dated for this Sunday about a flood trapping a news reporter for their local news operation (Muriel Bailey). 

• The sports reporters for the local news operations at WKRG-TV (Robby Baker and Randy Patrick Setterstrom), WPMI-TV (Lance Crawford), and WALA-TV (Bri MacNaught) did some reports pertaining to a tropical cyclone named "Nate" between this Sunday and the Saturday of the seventh day of this October.

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a local news program at a time when it was usually set to have a national news program from their main provider of network programming ("Sunday Today" from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Sunday mornings in recent times (the hour of 7:00 a.m.) this Sunday.

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV* and the broadcast frequencies for WAVH-FM and WXQW-AM each had the same programming as the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during some of the morning hours for this Sunday (it was usually programming pertaining to the tropical cyclone mentioned in the second paragraph from the top of this report (A Facebook page attributed to WAVH-FM had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Saturday of the seventh day of this October about the idea of WAVH-FM having such programming whereas a Twitter page attributed to them had a message dated for this Sunday about their continuing to have such programming). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. this Sunday had certain members of their news operations (the news presenter or news presenters each of them had (Kym Thurman and Greg Peterson on the one for WPMI-TV; Bob Grip** on the one for WALA-TV; Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven*** on the one for WKRG-TV) and the weather reporter for the one that appeared on the channel for WKRG-TV (Alan Sealls)) who were usually only part of some of the local news programmings they had for Monday through Friday in the same positions they had for those programs in recent times.****

(*WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

(**A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of his saying they would have a "special edition" of the program that appeared on their main broadcast channel before the time it did (the hour of 9:00 p.m.) earlier this Sunday)

(***she had referred to the program as a "special edition" after introducing her self on it)

(****the member of the news operation at WALA-TV who was usually the news presenter for the local news programming they had on their main broadcast channel on Sunday evenings in recent times (Lee Peck) was one the reporters for the local news programming it had this Sunday evening)  

News for Saturday, October 7th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Saturday had its news presenters (Andrea Ramey and Darwin Singleton) talking about the program being part of the programming of a radio station in their local broadcast area named WNTM-AM. 

• The main broadcast channels for WEAR-TV appeared to have video of some special sports programming (including a game of football) from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) within a box beside a separate box with graphics related to weather with audio of a weather reporter for their local news operation for some of the special weather programming it had this Saturday.

• The broadcast frequency for WXQW-AM had audio of certain announcers (including one identified as Jimmy Steele and one identified as a weather reporter for WKRG-TV named  John Nodar) presenting information related to a tropical cyclone named "Nate" on a continuous basis along with breaks for advertisements this Saturday (note: they were usually set to have the same programming as WGOK-AM on Saturday and Sunday whereas they were usually set to have their own programming from Monday through Friday in recent times).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a local news program when it was usually set to have a national news program from their main provider of network programming ("Today" from the the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Saturday mornings in recent times (the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.*) this Saturday (a Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have had some messages attributed to its administration dated for this Saturday about a plan for the channel to have such news programming before the time it had it).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had local news programming when it was usually set to have programming from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Saturday mornings in recent times this Saturday (specifically the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. for this Saturday (a Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have had some messages attributed to its administration dated for this Saturday about a plan for the channel to have such news programming before those hours)).

• Some Facebook pages attributed to WKRG-TV and WALA-TV each appeared to have had video of some special sports programming (including a game of football) from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for WKRG-TV and the FOX Broadcasting Company for WALA-TV) within a box beside a separate box with graphics related to weather and a weather reporter for their local news operation (Alan Sealls for WKRG-TV and Jason Smith for WALA-TV) with audio of the reporter presenting information related to them. 

(*the channel was occasionally set to have a separate program from the provider in place of the one named "Today" during the second half of the hour of 8:00 a.m. on Saturday (usually that of a block of programming for the provider named "The More You Know"))