News for Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

• A World Wide Web site specialized in videos named Vimeo appeared to have had received a video consisting of what appeared to had been recordings of certain local news programs for WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, WALA-TV, and WEAR-TV with a message dating them back to month of July for the year 1995 on the Sunday of the twenty-sixth day of this November. 

• 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. on the Wednesday of the twenty-ninth day of this November ("Gulf Coast Today") had some graphics with texts of certain questions in which a certain word used in both of them usually appeared completely capitalized ("THESE") for a part of it dedicated to trivia ("Nearly impossible trivia").  

• 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 Tuesday of the twenty-eighth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) appearing to ask its audience, "Do you have college football fever?" before appearing to tell them, "More good news for Auburn fans three days after beating Alabama in the Iron Bowl" immediately after appearing to had done so before having its sports reporter (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) discussing some rankings involving the aforementioned "Auburn" and "Alabama" (the football teams for Auburn University and the University of Alabama)).

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Monday of the twenty-seventh day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had videos of certain members of WKRG-TV (Bill Riales (a news presenter) and Drexel Gilbert (a host) in the video for the first program mentioned; Devon Walsh (a news presenter), Alan Sealls (a weather reporter), and Allen Carter (a news reporter) for the second program mentioned), appearing to shop for toys for an initiative of theirs to donate toys to certain residents of their local broadcast area (the "Magical Christmas Toy Drive").*

• 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 Wednesday of the twenty-ninth day of this November ("NBC 15 News [at 5 p.m.]") appeared to have had its news presenter (Kym (Thurman) Anderson and Greg Peterson) congratulating a certain member of a department of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama specialized in treating fires and conducting rescues (Steve Huffman of the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department) after one of them had said he was to retire (note: A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had an article with details similar to what was said of the member dated for this Wednesday).

(*the one named Drexel Gilbert usually appeared to host certain segments of some of the local news programming it had before the hour of 6:00 p.m. for this Wednesday concerning the initiative)

News for Tuesday, November 28th, 2017

• A World Wide Web site specialized in auctions named eBay appeared to have had an auction involving a package for storing matches with one of the logos for a former radio station based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named WABB-AM earlier this November (it appeared to had started on the Saturday of the eighteenth day of this November before ending earlier this Tuesday). 

• The local news that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had audio of its news presenter (Devon Walsh) saying, "The Grinch better watch out; Santa Claus has been lifting weights this year" while presenting a report concerning a certain person from the city of Salem in the state of Oregon resembling a fictional character named Santa Claus. 

• 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. on the Monday of the twenty-seventh day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of its reporters (Alexa Knowles) appearing to comment on a certain name while discussing a report involving a certain person referenced by that name (this is what she said while appearing to do so: "And with a name as common as Christopher Johnson, we have asked investigators for a picture of him. We have not heard back"). 

• 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 twenty-sixth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lee Peck) saying, "That looks good" immediately after having a video of one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith) cooking fish (or "sauteing" them to be precise) for a certain series of videos (usually called "FOX 10 Outdoors") that were usually part of some of the local news programming it had before then in recent times (they usually had him and other persons capturing fish).  

News for Monday, November 27th, 2017

• A section of a World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV that usually had images of certain members of the local news operation at WALA-TV linked to articles related to them usually did not have images of two recent members of the operation named Elizabeth Rodil and Toi Thornton until sometime after the Monday of the twentieth day of this November and this Monday.*

• 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 Monday ("Gulf Coast Today") had a video of a former contestant for a national TV program specialized in singing originally from the city of Mobile (Johnny Hayes for "The Voice") performing a song for a segment of it dedicated to singing and music.**

• 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-sixth day of this November ("NBC 15 News [at 5 p.m.]") had its news presenter (Christian Jennings) presenting a report of a plan for the main broadcast channel of their companion station (WJTC-TV) to have a certain "round-table discussion" for the hour of 7:00 p.m.*** on the Tuesday of the twenty-eight day of this November (note: the words "round-table discussion" were linked to an article similar to the report presented on the news program on a World World Web site attributed to WEAR-TV (they members of the same company of which WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were also members: the Sinclair Broadcast Group)). 

(*A Facebook page attributed to the one named Elizabeth Rodil had a message attributed to her  dated for the Thursday of the twelfth day of October for this calendar year indicating she had started working for the operation that day whereas a Facebook page attributed to the one named Toi Thornton had attributed to him dated for the Tuesday of the thirty-first day of that October only indicating that he had started working for the operation that month without specifying when that month (note: this weblog had a report with details of his being part of a local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV on the Thursday of the nineteenth day of that October)

(**the program for which he was a contestant was a network program for the main provider of such programs for WPMI-TV (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC))

(***the channel was usually set to have a syndicated version of a network program for the main provider of network programming for WPMI-TV named "Dateline" (or "Dateline NBC") during that period of time from Monday through Friday and Monday through Thursday**** in recent times.)

(****this was due to a plan for the channel to have special programming related to a game of football involving football teams for certain high schools in the local broadcast area for WJTC-TV on Friday on a weekly basis from the Friday twenty-fifth day of this past August to the Friday of the second day of this November (the plan for the programming was usually promoted as "The UTV44 High School Football Game of the Week" in recent times)

News for Sunday, November 26th, 2017

• The beginning of 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 an animated sequence that usually preceded announcements of "breaking news" in certain installments of it and those of other local news programs it had before then in recent times before having a news presenter (Asha Staples) saying, "We begin with breaking news at this hour. Hello, I'm Asha Staples" immediately after having it.

• Some of the local news programming for WALA-TV since the Friday of the twenty-fourth day of this November had videos of various persons in uniforms identifying their selves by titles related to militaries before appearing to greet certain entities between animated sequences involving the words "SEASONS GREETINGS" and "SPONSORED BY AIRBUS") (note: they usually had such videos in some of the local news programming they had after the fourth Thursday of November and the last day of December in previous years in recent times). 

• The broadcast frequencies for WZEW-FM and WAVH-FM and the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV each had special programming related to a game of football involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Auburn University on the Saturday of the twenty-fifth day of this November (one of the announcers for the special programming on the frequency for WZEW-FM had identified it as being from the Crimson Tide Sports Network; one of the announcers in the special programming on the frequency for WAVH-FM had identified it as being from the Auburn Sports Network; the special programming on the channel for WKRG-TV appeared to had been from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS (the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV)). 

• The beginnings of the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half 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-fifth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 6" and "WKRG News 5 at 10") each had an animated sequence that usually preceded announcements of "breaking news" at the beginnings of certain installments that they and those of other local news programs it had before then in recent times instead of the animated sequences that usually preceded video of the news presenter or news presenters at the beginnings of other installments that they and the other programs it had before then in recent times before having a news presenter (Ashley Knight) announcing "breaking news" related to the game of football mentioned in the paragraph above this one (the outcome of it) immediately after having it. 

News for Saturday, November 25th, 2017 (corrected)

(correction note: the word "Seminal" in a commentary for this weblog titled "Commentary on special news programs, an unusual report about traffic conditions, and some synergy" was displaced by the word "Seminole" and some of the periods of time near the end of the fourth paragraph below this sentence were corrected)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twenty-fourth day of this November had a video of a news report involving a comment on one of its subjects (a certain "Marie").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 12:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twenty-fourth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Bill Rials) saying, "A News 5 terror alert" at the beginning of a report concerning an bombing at a mosque in the nation of Egypt and an animated sequence involving the words "terror alert" as he was presenting it.  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twenty-third day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had some video (like this one) of a weather reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith) cooking fish for a series of segments (usually involving him and other persons capturing fish) that were often part of their broadcasts in recent times (the segments were usually called "FOX 10 Outdoors" on the programs). 

• The guides to the programming for the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV from Comcast, Zap2it, TV Guide, and Titan TV on the World Wide Web for this Saturday had listings for a movie (dated for the year 1995) with a name and story similar to that of a movie (dated for the year 1954) listed in their guides to the programming of a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named MoviePlex for the Sunday of the twenty-sixth day of this November and the Monday of the twenty-seventh day of this November (the one in the guides to the programming for the channel for WJTC-TV was listed for one period of time (the hour of 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. and the first half of hour of 9:00 p.m.) whereas the one in the guides to the programming feed was listed for three separate periods of time between the aforementioned Sunday and the aforementioned Monday (the last five minutes of the hour of 6:00 a.m., the hour of 7:00 a.m., and the first fifty eight minutes of the hour of 8:00 a.m.; the last twenty five minutes of the hour of 1:00 p.m., and the first thirty one minutes of the hour of 2:00 p.m.; the last forty six minutes of the hour of 10:00 p.m., the hour of 11:00 p.m., and the first twelve minutes of the hour of 12:00 a.m.).*

(*all times listed are for the Central time zone) 

News for Friday, November 24th, 2017

(note: one of the words in a previous report for this weblog named "News for Thursday, November 23rd, 2017" was corrected (the word "Thanksgiving" in one of its paragraphs was changed to "thanksgiving")) 

• 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 twenty-third day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Robby Baker) appearing to express thanks for "touchdown celebrations", "people having an open mind", "creative costumes this year" (in regards to football), his "being part" of a certain "sports beat", a certain "Coke bottle" (or as he put: "that Coke bottle that [a certain] Nick Saban never seems to drink out of"), his family, for getting to "eat a little bit too much turkey and share a little thanksgiving time with them ['this afternoon before I came to work']" and for being part of "the News 5 family" (the news presenter for the program (Devon Walsh) appeared to respond to him with her saying, "Of course we're glad to have you here, Robby".*

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have some national news programs from their main provider of network programming ("The CBS Overnight News", "The CBS Morning News", and "CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) when it was usually set to have one of their own news programs from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 This Morning" during last thirty-five minutes of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.) on the Thursday of the twenty-third day of this November (it was set to have the one named "The CBS Overnight News" during the hour of 4:00 a.m.; the one named "The CBS Morning News" during the first and second halves of the hour of 5:00 a.m., and the one named "CBS This Morning" was set to appear on it during the hour of 6:00 a.m. that day).** 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twenty-third day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had video of a report concerning two certain persons with a narrator using the words "mom" and "dad" (in additional to personal names) in reference to them (the news presenter for the program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. (Lee Peck) said the subjects were the "mother" and "father" of an investigator for its news operation named Kati Weis while introducing it before saying that she and her family "want to wish everyone on the gulf coast a happy holidays" (the news presenter for the first program appeared to had been this Kati Weis (she had referred to the subjects of the report as her parents while introducing it before appearing to wish everybody a "happy thanksgiving" before appearing to express love toward her parents (this is what she said while doing so: "Love you, mom and dad")).***

(*both she and the sports reporter was were not usually part of installments of the program for Monday through Friday in recent times)

(**the channel was usually set to have the one named "The CBS Overnight News" only during the last fifty seven minutes of the hour of 2:00 a.m. and the hours 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday and only the first five minutes of the hour of 2:00 a.m. in addition the other ones on Monday in recent times whereas it was usually set to have the one named "The CBS Morning News" during the first twenty-five minutes of the hour of 4:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times in).

(***the news presenter named Lee Peck was usually one only for installments of the program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on Sunday in recent times whereas the one named Kati Weis was usually one only for certain news programs that appeared on the channel on Saturday evenings in recent times (the one named Lee Pack was also a news reporter for such programs in recent times))

News for Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

(correction note: the word "thanksgiving" in the fifth paragraph below this sentence was originally capitalized) 

• 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 twenty-second day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have a video of a news report involving one of its news reporters (Mary Smith) exercising with a dog. 

• 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-second day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") occasionally had graphics involving the following texts in certain parts of it dedicated to weather: "IRON BOWL SPECIAL" and "TOMORROW 9AM, FRIDAY 4PM & Saturday 9AM" (the program had the same texts in a part of it dedicated to sports while having audio related to the texts).* 

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had an article concerning an investigation attributed to the local news operation at WALA-TV in which a name normally used in reference to the news operation of a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named the FOX News Channel ("FOX News") appeared to had been used in reference to the one for their own broadcast operation as part of its title ("State of Alabama DMV Selling your personal info, FOX News investigation finds").** 

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WABF-AM had a recording of one of their radio hosts (Lori DuBose) on a local radio program of theirs ("Community Contact") claiming she was not part of a certain type of ceremony usually held in their local broadcast area on a yearly basis for the first time in ten years (the recording appeared to had been dated for the Friday of the seventeenth day of this November based on the way it was listed on the site along with others like it (most of them were listed with groups of numbers like "11 17 2017" (the numbers for the recording mentioned earlier)).***

• 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 Wednesday of the twenty-second day of this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its weather reporter (John Nodar) appearing to comment on a report (concerning a certain turtle being allowed to return to the Gulf of Mexico after being rehabilitated in a certain area near it for four months) presented by its news presenter (Devon Walsh) before appearing to express thanks to her and certain other folks (this is what he said while doing so, "Something for them to be thankful for and I am thankful to work with people like you and all these folks here at WKRG for so long and...") before having its news presenter appear to express thanks to its audience immediately after what he was saying (this is what she said while appearing to do so: "I'm thankful for all of you you tuning in every day for 'News 5 at Noon' ") and her appearing to claim they would not be where they were the next day and that they would be back on a certain Friday (this is what she said while appearing to do so: "We won't be here tomorrow, but we will be back on Friday") and the weather reporter appearing to express hope for the audience (this is what he said while appearing to do so: "Hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving"). 

(*a Facebook page attributed to a sports reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV named Bri MacNaught appeared to have a recording of the part of the program dedicated to sports involving the texts (note: the texts appeared near the end of the recording))

(**the first five minutes of the recording had the discussion)

(***the news operation for WALA-TV was usually called "FOX 10 News" in some of the news programming it had in recent times). 

News for Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had a live video of a meeting involving weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith, Matt Barrentine, Adam Olivier, Michael White, and Chasity Byrd) on the Tuesday of the twenty-first day of this November. 

• 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. on the Tuesday of the twenty-first day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) appearing to ask its audience, "Have you eaten well today?" while introducing video of a report involving her self.  

• 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-first day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) congratulating whom he said was a grandson of his (a Facebook page attributed to the news presenter appeared to have some images that appeared on the program as he was doing this along (it also also a message attributed to him related to what he was saying on the program beside them)).

• The Facebook page mentioned in the first paragraph near the top of this report appeared to have had a live video of one of the news presenters for the news operation of the TV station mentioned in it (Lenise Ligon) discussing her voice on the Tuesday of the twenty-first day of this November whereas a Facebook page attributed to her appeared to have had its own live video of her discussing her voice this Wednesday (note: the tone of her voice for some of the local news programming broadcast by the station between that Tuesday and this Wednesday sounded lower than the way it usually sounded in some of the local news programming they had before that Tuesday in recent times).*

(*the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for the station during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") did not have her with its other news presenter (Bob Grip) for the second half of it in accordance with previous installments of it in recent times after having both of them for the first half of it in accordance with those installments (the  Facebook page attributed to the station appeared to have had a live video of the news presenter named Bob Grip discussing her and her voice after the installment for this Wednesday (during its hour of 8:00 p.m.)))

News for Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

• A World Wide Web site specialized in auctions named eBay appeared to have had an auction involving a pin based on a former logo for WALA-TV since the Friday of the seventeenth day of this November (its length of time appeared to had been set to end on the Monday of the twenty-seventh day of this November)). 

• The main broadcast channel for the Alabama Public Television station located in southwest Alabama (WEIQ-TV) was usually set to have an installment of a national TV program named "Charlie Rose" during the hour of 6:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times until this Tuesday (it had an installment of a different national TV program in place of it during that hour this Tuesday (its name was "Antiques Roadshow" (update for Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017: the channel had an installment of another national TV program during the same hour (its name was "Finding Your Roots")).*

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) presenting a report concerning certain entities with similar names in an awkward and opinionated way (this is how the report was presented: "The Flora-Bama with an "A" - Flora - is calling out a new reality show that MTV is working on: it's called the 'Floribama' - with an 'I' - for 'Floribama Shore'. Well the bar says that the show is using its reputation and name to promote itself -- the real Flora-Bama released a statement that says in part we have asked them to stop - they refused - it went on to say there is only one Flora-Bama and quote, 'May they will listen to you'. Then it listed the names of the company's presidents and CEOs).**

• 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 and the Monday twentieth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") did not have any news presenters introducing his self or her self in accordance with previous appearances of it (or previous installments of them) on the channel during that hour before this calendar week in recent times (those appearances usually had a news presenter doing so within the first two minutes) as for what it had in the first two minutes of its appearances on the channel this Tuesday and the aforementioned Monday; both of them had audio of a news presenter presenting a news report after an animated opening sequence that usually preceded announcements of "breaking news" within the first two minutes of certain appearances of it during that hour in recent times (note: the appearance for the aforementioned Monday did not have a news presenter using the words "breaking news" like the announcer for the sequence)).***

(*A Facebook page attributed to Alabama Public Television had a message from a Facebook page related to a national TV program named "The PBS NewsHour" dated for the Monday of the twentieth day of this November stating their main provider of network programming (the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)) would immediately suspend their distributing of the program named "Charlie Rose")

(**the program had the following text as the report was being presented: "VIACOM PRESIDENT & CEO - BOB BAKISH" and "MTV PRESIDENT - CHRIS MCCARTHY")

(***the report the proceeded the sequence in its appearance on the channel during the hour for the aforementioned Monday concerned a group of councilors for one of the cities in the local broadcast area for WKRG-TV whereas the report the proceeded the sequence in its appearance on the channel during the hour this Tuesday concerned a certain person having died earlier this Tuesday) 

News for Monday, November 20th, 2017 (corrected)

(correction note: the word "series" in an earlier version of the second paragraph below this sentence was removed)

• A Facebook page attributed to a promoter for a company specialized in groceries based in the city of Prichard in southwest Alabama (Lucy Greer of Greer's Markets) had some messages attributed to her dated for this Monday concerning a contest involving her and a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that was usually set to appear on the main broadcast channel WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Studio 10").*

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at Noon"), 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 p.m."), and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this Monday each had at least one of their contributors (Devon Walsh and Bill Riales (news presenters/news reporters) for the first one; Peter Albrecht (news presenter/news reporter) and Devon Walsh for the second one; Rose Ann Haven (news presenter) for the third one and and the fourth; Rose Ann Haven and Bryant Clerkley (news reporter) for the fifth one) and a host for certain videos concerning certain businesses in their local broadcast area that were usually were of its programming either between certain segments of such programs or after the last segments of certain installments of them in its regular periods of times for them in recent times (Drexel Gilbert**) appearing to promote the start of a certain effort to collect toys ("The Magical Christmas Toy Drive") for certain residents in the area (the news presenters appeared to had been in a location separate from the one for the aforementioned host).  

• 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 nineteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10")** had its weather reporter (Thomas Geboy) appearing to express personal feelings toward some animated graphics (involving what appeared to had been some turkeys running on a football field, some leaves falling, a goal post, a football moving toward a scoreboard, and a scoreboard with the words "ThanksGiving" and "Cool as a Cranberry" above the words "Low" and "High" above the numbers "63" and "42" in that order) that appeared behind him for one of its weather segments ("Now I love this graphic. You can't beat this; plenty of turkeys just running across the football field. We're rapidly approaching Thanksgiving and it's going to be looking cool as a cranberry. That was quite punny. We'll see high temperatures into the lower sixties after morning temperatures into the lower forties, so it is going to be a cool day, but on Thanksgiving maybe a turkey bowl, maybe a backyard turkey bowl, you can't really beat that weather (the sports reporter for the program (Robby Baker) appeared to respond to what the weather reporter had said before promoting some subjects planned for a part of the program dedicated to sports afterwards (this is what he said while appearing to respond to the weather reporter: "I don't even know what to say, That was--that was like the greatest weather ever with the graphics and the puns")). 

(*the promoter was a regular contributor to the program)

(**at least one of those contributors had said she was a former "news anchor" (a nickname for news presenters) for the news operation in addition to promoting the effort (note: both she and the member named Peter Albrecht were also news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV))

(**the program was usually set to appear on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. before then (the channel had programming from the main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) for WKRG-TV during that period of time that day))

Commentary: Offers and promotions for products made from living (or dead) creatures and acts of cruelty toward such creatures

If I were the owner and/or manager of a local TV station or a local radio station, I would not allow for it to be involved in any special offers or promotions involving meat or others products made from living (or dead) creatures other than humans due to my personal feelings concerning such products (I would consider them disgusting, inhumane, and unnecessary) and my feelings for other folks who might share those feelings (as for folks who might not share those feelings, I would suggest they reconsider their views of such products and the lives and feelings of creatures other than humans). I would also not allow for it to have any programming promoting of cruelty toward living creatures such as videos of news reports promoting the act of hunting living creatures (WKRG-TV often had videos of such reports involving crocodiles (or "alligators") in some of the local news programming produced for their broadcast operation in recent times) or videos with certain persons demonstrating hunting certain creatures other than humans (WALA-TV often had videos of such demonstrations in some of the local news programming produced for their broadcast operation in recent times (the videos were usually called "FOX 10 Outdoors" segments)).

(note: this commentary was inspired by what appeared to been some details pertaining to an offer involving turkeys on a World Wide Web site attributed to WABF-AM).

News for Sunday, November 19th, 2017 (updated)

(update for Monday, November 20th, 2017: the words "video related to it" in the third paragraph below this sentence were changed to a hyperlink and a hyphen between some of its other words was removed afterwards)

• A World Wide Web site named Absolute Publicity had an article dated for this Sunday concerning a past owner of WNGL-AM (from the time its name was WMML-AM) having died earlier that day (the name of the owner was Lonnie Melvin ("Mel") Tillis).

• The beginning of 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) saying, "Stay tuned, you're watching your only local news at 6:00 a.m." while the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had another local news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Sunday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lee Peck) referring to a news reporter for the news operation at WALA-TV (Devan Coffaro) as a "certified SCUBA diving enthusiast" while promoting a video of a report involving her for a future installment of the program ("Monday night at 9:00") and referring to a certain "e-mail" from a certain "mother" as a "very heartfelt" one before presenting a video related to it (note: the video had graphics normally used for a special series of videos for some of the local news programming produced by the operation in recent times (they usually involved members of the operation referring to their selves as "The FOX 10 Surprise Squad").

News for Saturday, November 18th, 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 Friday of the seventeenth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news reporters (Alexa Knowles) saying a certain event was "right on cue" for her that day.

• Some of the local news programming for WALA-TV earlier this calendar week occasionally had certain members of its news operation promoting a plan to have a series of shows in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama involving lights from the Friday of the tenth day of this November to the Monday of the first day of January for the next calendar year (they usually had them promoting this plan as the "Christmas Nights of Lights").*  

• 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 sixteenth day of this November had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) stating an opinion concerning pregnancy while introducing a video of a news report related to pregnancy that had been advertised through their programming for the channel earlier this calendar week (it usually had advertisements for it (like this one) on some of the other local news programs it had earlier this calendar week and between parts of such programs).

(*update for Sunday, November 19th, 2017: the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a video of a advertisement for the plan with a logo for their broadcast operation and the words "sponsored by" above it in some of its programming earlier this Sunday)

News for Friday, November 17th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had a live video of a meeting involving the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith, Matt Barrentine, Chasity Byrd, and Michael White) on the Thursday of the sixteenth day of this November. 

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video of one of the sports reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) conducting an interview with an analyzer of the sport of football for their main provider of network programming (Aaron Taylor of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November.

• 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 sixteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its weather reporter (John Nodar) appearing to walk off outside of the range of the camera used for him to appear in it while saying, "I tell you I'm running out of words after this many days of nice weather; I'm running out of words for mild and pleasant" before having him back with a book and his saying, "But that's where the weather thesaurus comes in. So let's see it is going to be temperate, untroubled, peaceful, balmy, gentle, moderate, mellow, and refreshing, so that's our weather for today and probably the next couple of days". 

• Some of the local news programming WKRG-TV had on their main broadcast channel since the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November had some members of their news operation presenting details of a plan for it to have a certain type of show (a "Battle for Braggin' Rights" show) "taped" at a certain casino/hotel in the city of Atmore in southwest Alabama (the Wind Creek Casino and Hotel) this Friday (they also appeared to had been suggesting donating toys considered "new" and "unwrapped" for a certain "toy drive" (the "Magical Christmas Toy Drive") and getting autographs from a certain Bobby Humphrey and a certain Joe Cribbs set to host the "show" before staying for the show itself (at least one of those contributors said the Bobby Humphrey and Joe Cribbs were "running backs" whereas at least one of them said two sports reporters for the operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom and Robby Baker) would be hosting it with them)

News for Thursday, November 16th, 2017

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have a video of a news report involving on the radio stations in their local broadcast area (WAVH-FM) with an article related to the report itself dated for the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November.

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had a video of what appeared to had been one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine) visiting a school in their local broadcast area with an article related to it dated for the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had video of a news report involving a member of the local news operation at WALA-TV who was usually only a news presenter for the news programming they had during the morning hours of Monday through Friday in recent times (Eric Reynolds).* 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had special news programming (involving news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Greg Peterson and Kym (Thurman) Anderson) concerning a certain news conference at a time when it was usually set to have a syndicated program named "Judge Judy" between the morning and evening hours of Monday through Friday in recent times (the first half of the hour of 4:00 p.m.) on the Wednesday of the fifteenth day of this November (note: the special news programming was during the first eight minutes of that period of time). 

• 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 Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying a "sister station" of theirs "stood patiently outside" of what she had said were "closed doors" for a certain committee ("the Republican National Committee") before introducing what appeared to been live video of a news report by a member of that very station (Jack Royer of WIAT-TV in the city of Birmingham in central Alabama) appeared to had been a remote location separate from hers.  

(*a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had a live video in which one of the other news presenters for the news operation at WALA-TV (Lenise Ligon) had said the one named Eric Reynolds had been "working" on this report (she had actually said "story") for "some time")  

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

News for Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live videos involving a discussion of a poll for one of their local news programs and a band performing in a broadcast facility for those programs on the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November.

• A World Wide Web site named NewscastStudio had an article dated for the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November concerning a certain graphic used in some of the local news programming for WPMI-TV, WJTC-TV, and WEAR-TV, and other TV stations like them in recent times (stations connected to a company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

• WKRG-TV was part of a news article on a World Wide Web site attributed to a company specialized in news named the Washington Post dated for this Wednesday concerning their own company and the subjects of some news reports for some of the local news programming they had on the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November (note: 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 Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) referring to one of the subjects of the reports as being part of a "popular investigation" of theirs while promoting a World Wide Web site of theirs). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during 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 Monday of the thirteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 6", "WKRG News 5 at 6:30", and "WKRG News 5 at 10") each had a member of their news operation who was usually either a news reporter or news presenter for programs like those in recent times (Peter Albrecht) presenting reports related to sports for parts of them dedicated to sports in general instead of one of the members who usually appeared to do so during those times (the program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. that day had him appearing to say both of those other members were "off"; as for the names of those members, they were Randy Patrick Setterstrom and Robby Baker). 

• 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 fourteenth day of this November had one of its hosts (Joe Emer) saying the "parent corporation" of WALA-TV (the Meredith Corporation) had an "exclusive interview" with a certain Joanna Gaines concerning a certain series of publications attributed to her (Magnolia Journal) after having its other host (Chasity Byrd) appear to tell the audience for the program they would be "happy to know" that a "holiday edition" of the series had "[just] hit newsstands" if they were fans of this Joanna Gaines and a certain Chip Gaines before having video of what the other host said was the interview itself after having it before having the other host say the edition was published by the corporation (she he referred to it as their "parent company" rather than "parent corporation").*

(*a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of one of the host named Joe Emer saying, "We're going to talk to them about the Magnolia Journal" in reference to the aforementioned Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines between some of the earlier segments of the program (the program did not have him or any other being speaking to either one of them))

News for Tuesday, November 14th, 2017

• 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. on the Monday of the thirteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had one of the news presenters and news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Peter Albrecht) saying the football teams for the University of Alabama and Auburn University would be "fine-tuning things this Saturday against cupcakes at home ['Bama hosts Mercer; Auburn hosts Louisiana-Monroe; both are early games with 11 o'clock kickoffs']" while presenting a report related to them (he was doing so for a part of the program dedicated to sports ("Sports Preview")).  

• 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. on the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had a member of the news operation at WKRG-TV who was not usually one of its news presenters since the 2015 (Devon Walsh) be one of its news presenters in this installment of it (she was usually one of the news presenters for the local news programs that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 9"), the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 5") before then in recent times).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had its news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) presenting a report of a plan for certain members of WALA-TV other than their selves (Joe Emer, Bri MacNaught, and Hal Scheurich) to have a special ("half-hour") program concerning a certain type of game of football game usually held in a yearly basis in recent times (one involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Auburn University) broadcast on the Thursday of the twenty-third day of this November (during the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m.)*, the Friday of the twenty-fourth day of this November (during the first half of the hour of 4:00 p.m.), and the Saturday of twenty-fifth day of this November (during the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m.).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the thirteenth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) appearing to make a suggestion for certain members of its audience (this is what he said that included that suggestion: "Republicans are taking part in kind of a circular firing squad when it comes to the Senate candidacy of Judge Roy Moore Now keep in mind if you  have children in the room, you may want to send them out. While nationally-known republicans are calling for Moore to drop out of the race (for the Senate of the United States), republican leaders in the state are either keeping silent or urging Moore to continue the fight against his democratic opponent. Just this afternoon, days after the first reports surfaced of alleged sexual misconduct against a minor, another woman stepped forward, and again, I want to warn you, what she described is graphic") 

(*one of the news presenter had actually referred to this day as "Thanksgiving")

News for Monday, November 13th, 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 twelfth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a graphic with the word " 'canes" within a group of graphics for a report concerning the number of tropical cyclones (or "hurricanes") that had formed over the Atlantic Ocean earlier this calendar year (they were part of the program dedicated to weather). 

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Sunday of the twelfth day of this November concerning a certain interview with a certain person connected to a certain publication related to WALA-TV due to their being part of a holding company named the Meredith Corporation (note: 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 tenth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had its news presenters presenting a report similar to the message). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Monday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) asking one of its news reporters (Lee Peck), "A good turnout?" in reference to a certain meeting from which he said the reporter was broadcasting and the reporter appearing to say, "A great turnout" in response to the question (the news presenter said the reporter was "live" at the meeting while introducing him on the program from what appeared to be its set (the program had each of them in separate digital boxes during the introduction)). 

• 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 twelfth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying a certain Jimmy Hart was a "WWW hall of famer" while presenting a report of a plan for him to visit the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama whereas the local news program that appeared on it 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. afterwards on this Monday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had its own news presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) saying the Jimmy Hart mentioned in the report for the other program was a "WWE hall of famer" while presenting other reports of the type of plan mentioned in that report. 

• 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 Monday of the thirteenth day of this November ("Studio 10") had one of its hosts (Joe Emer) appearing to say one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine) had just "walked in" before appearing to say "happy birthday"* to him (its other host (Michael White)** also appeared to say "happy birthday" to him immediately after the other one) before saying the reporter "shares a birthday" with a certain "Leonardo DiCaprio" and "[that it was] hard to tell which one is better looking" (the host named Michael White appeared to be laughing immediately after that) before having audio of his saying "That one! That's the answer!" with video of what appeared to had been that very reporter (he appeared to be sitting in a dark room).*

(*one of the local news program that appeared on the channel on the Sunday of a twelfth day of this November had its news presenter saying "happy belated birthday" to the same news weather reporter)

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

Commentary: News broadcasters and news writers promoting certain notions

I wish all news broadcasters (including news presenters and news reporters) and news writers would not use phrases like "those who fought for our country", "those who fought for our freedom", and "honoring and celebrating those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom" while either presenting or doing news reports concerning former or current members of services specialized in defending the United States (doing so would make them appear as if they were expressing their own personal feelings pertaining to those former or current members or promoting certain notions pertaining to them and those services) when they should only be providing information pertaining to them whereas their audiences could form their own personal feelings or notions pertaining to them. 

News for Sunday, November 12th, 2017

(note: a previous report for this weblog was amended; the one named "News for Saturday, November 11th, 2017")

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 6:00 a.m. on the Sunday of the twelfth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m.") had its news presenter (Asha Staples) appearing to wish its weather reporter (Matt Barrentine) a "happy belated birthday".

• The main programming feed for WBLX-FM had an announcement of a certain type of event planned for the Thursday of the ninth day of this November near the end of a certain installment of a local radio program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs ("In Touch Gulf Coast") during the first half of the hour of 7:00 a.m. this Sunday.

• 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 tenth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) referring to a member of a national TV programming service named the FOX News Channel as "FOX's Lauren Blanchard" while introducing video of a news report in which a person identified as that member had her ending it as if she were a member of the local news operation at WALA-TV (she was saying, "In Washington, Lauren Blanchard, FOX News"). 

News for Saturday, November 11th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: information between parentheses was added to the first paragraph below this sentence)

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV and one of the digital sub-channels for WPMI-TV both appeared to have the programming related to a certain game of football (involving the football teams for Louisiana Tech University in the city of Ruston in the state of Louisiana and Florida Atlantic University in the city of Boca Raton in the state of Florida) from a national TV programming service named Stadium (the channel for WPMI-TV usually appeared to have programming from this service on a continuous basis) between the second half of the hour of 2:00 p.m. and the end of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Saturday.*

• One of the digital sub-channels for WFNA-TV was set to have special programming related to a game of football (involving the football teams for Jefferson Davis High School in the city of Montgomery in central Alabama and McGill-Toolen High School in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama) from a company named Raycom Media in place of the programming feed that was usually part of its programming in recent times (it usually appeared to had been from a national TV programming service named Bounce TV) on the Friday of the tenth day of this November (no later or sooner than the beginning of the hour of 7:00 p.m.).**

• 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 Friday of the tenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") appeared to have had live video one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Hayley Minogue) reporting that she had "flown" in an airplane as part of an "air show" along with what some separate video related to what she was saying (A Facebook page attributed to her had messages attributed to her and the administration of a Facebook connected to WKRG-TV dated for this Friday concerning what was she saying along with some videos related to their details).

• 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. on the Friday of the tenth day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had an animated sequence that usually appeared with announcements of "breaking news" between previous installments of it in recent times instead of either one of the animated sequences normally used to begin installments of it during those times (like this one) (note: one of those sequences also usually appeared with an announcement of "breaking news", except it was usually that of a professional announcer (usually involving these words: "From WKRG News 5, the gulf coast's news leader: breaking news now") instead of a news presenter for the program). 

(*WPMI-TV and WFGX-TV were related to each other during their having the same owners and their being part of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

(**the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV)*** during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. that day ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") had one of the sports reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) referring to the channel for WFNA-TV by the name of the aforementioned provider ("Bounce TV") while presenting a report of the plan for the channel to have the special programming in place of it)

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

News for Friday, November 10th, 2017

• The city of Mobile in southwest Alabama appeared to had been part of a recent installment of a national TV program named "The First 48" (the name of that installment was "Runner Runner").* 

• 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 an interview involving a former weather reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (John Edd Thompson).

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of a TV program for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming named the Cable News Network (CNN) involving one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Kati Weis) this Friday (a World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had an article dated for this Friday concerning her being on the program).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Friday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) telling its audience if they were "fans of Chip and Joanna Gaines" that they knew that a "holiday edition" (or winter issue) of a series of publications named Magnolia Journal was to "hit the news stands in just a few days" before having its other news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying the theme of the edition was "wonder" before saying they (she was actually using the word "we") "had the opportunity to sit down and have an exclusive interview" with the aforementioned Joanna Gaines to discuss the idea of the publication being "a labor of idea" before having some video of a person identified by some of its graphics by the name Joanna Gaines before having audio of the news presenter mentioned earlier (Bob Grip) saying the edition was to "hit the news stands on Tuesday (or the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November)" and that "over the course of the next few weeks" they (he was actually using the word "we") would have more of the interview on their (he was actually using the word "our") "Web site" before having audio of the later news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying publications were produced by their "parent company" ("the Meredith Corporation").

(*this weblog had a report earlier this calendar year ("News for Friday, August 4th, 2017") with details pertaining to an earlier installment of the program ("A Murder in Mobile") that also appeared to have had involved the city of Mobile)

News for Thursday, November 9th, 2017

• 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. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had video of a person using the word "hell" as a form of profanity for one of their news reports.

• 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. on the Wednesday of the eighth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) referring to a person only by one name ("Obama") while presenting a report pertaining to the person (she had referred to him only as a "former president" before then).  

• 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") appeared to have video of a radio host for one of the radio station in their local broadcast area for one of its news reports (he was identified as Sean Sullivan of "FM Talk 106.5" (nickname for WAVH-FM) by some captions for an Internet version of it whereas the report itself had no mention of "FM Talk 106.5" or its proper name (WAVH-FM)).*

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eighth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "WKRG News 5 at 5") each appeared to have had live video of one of its news reporters (Lee Peck on the one for WALA-TV; Allen Carter on the one for WKRG-TV) in a remote location referring to certain entities around him as having come from "The First 48" without explaining what he had meant by "The First 48" for news report he was doing.**  

(*the local news program that appeared on the channel during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. earlier this Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") appeared to have had some of that video for a different report pertaining to its main subject presented by one of its news presenters (Peter Albrecht), except it had no audio of the person identified in it as Sean Sullivan and the report for which it was used had no details pertaining to that person)

(**note from the author: I was told by sources I had considered reliable that the reporters were referring to members of a national TV program named "The First 48" (you may request the names of the sources through the section for posting comments below this message and I might send you their names through electronic mail afterwards))

News for Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV usually did not have videos of advertisements between having one of their local news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") and a syndicated program named "Jeopardy!" in recent times prior to this Wednesday.

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live videos of one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Hayley Minogue) preparing to ride a jet this Wednesday (some of the local news programs broadcast by WKRG-TV this Wednesday had some reports related to her doing so).

• 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 Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 5") had its news presenters (Peter Albrecht and Devon Walsh) presenting a report of a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named the Travel Channel being set to have an installment of a certain TV program ("Ginormous Foods") involving restaurants in the city of Mobile in southwest Mobile in their programming on the Monday of the twentieth day of this November.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon" and "WKRG News 5 at 10") each had a news presenter (Devon Walsh for the first one; Rose Ann Haven for the second one) referring to two candidates for the Senate of the United States from the state of Alabama (Doug Jones and Roy Moore) as if they were its only candidates from Alabama whereas there had been others from this state (the one named Devon Walsh had referred to them as "both candidates" whereas the one that named Rose Ann Haven had said the candidate named Roy Moore would be "facing" the one named Doug Jones in an election for the position of the Senate sought by them and the other candidates. 

News for Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: the words "public meeting" in the paragraph below this sentence were changed to hyperlinks)

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had some live videos related to a public meeting involving some weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV this Tuesday.

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had some 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 (Randy Cross of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) this Tuesday. 

• 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 seventh day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a video of a report concerning a World Wide Web site named Twitter in which some parts of it were delivered with enthusiasm (it was part of a regular series of segments for the program named "Daily Dot Com"). 

• 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 fifth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lee Peck) introducing video of a certain news report without saying whether its reporter was for their news operation or not (note: some captions for the program on an Internet video stream for its broadcast had the words "Brian Mullahy" in reference to the reporter while the news presenter appeared to be saying those words).

News for Monday, November 6th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to a person named Alyssa Kaitlyn Newton had a message attributed to her dated for the Sunday of the fifth day of this November stating she had accepted a certain type of position at WPMI-TV.*

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on the Monday of the sixth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had one of their news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) introducing a certain video pertaining to a plan for some weather reporters for their news operation to hold a public meeting at a casino/hotel in the city of Atmore in southwest Alabama on the Tuesday of the seventh day of this November 

• 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 at least one of its contributors using a phrase normally used in videos for promoting their companion station ("The Gulf Coast's CW" for WFNA-TV)** while presenting one of its reports (this is how one of those contributors (a news presenter named Jessica Taloney) was using it for at least one of those reports: "The Gulf Coast's CW and WKRG News 5 have been investigating...")) 

• 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 fifth day of this November ("NBC 15 News at 5 [p.m.]") had its news presenter (Andrea Ramey) introducing a certain video pertaining to a national TV program from their main provider of network programming dedicated to the sport of football that was to be part of its programming by the hour of 7:00 p.m. later that Sunday (she had described it as a "preview" of the program; as for the names of the program and its provider, they were "Sunday Night Football" and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) respectively).  

(*the Facebook page attributed to her also had messages stating she had other positions of WPMI-TV and positions at other stations specialized in broadcasting in southwest Alabama (WNSP-FM, Jag TV, and the Prowl))

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

News for Sunday, November 5th, 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 Friday of the third day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.) had one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Kati Weiss) appearing to say they believe their audience "have the right to see police body cam video paid for by your tax dollars" for a report regarding such video.  

• 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. on the Saturday of the fourth day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m." and "FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") appeared to have had their news presenter (Asha Staples) conducting interviews with different persons sitting beside her near a desk in what appeared to had been their broadcast facility (a Facebook page attributed to her had a message attributed to her concerning some of those persons).

• The first local news program mentioned in the paragraph above this one had its news presenter saying they were having "on air issues" after having video of a certain person* in a location separate from hers not appearing to respond to her for an interview she appeared to had been trying to conduct with him (he appeared to had been performing a different task) before having video of its weather reporter (Matt Barrentine) saying the person was "miking up" (the program eventually had what appeared to had been live videos of the person being interviewed by the news presenter in various locations separate from hers (the second local news program mentioned in the paragraph above this one also had what appeared to been live videos of the same person being interviewed by the same news presenter in various locations separate from hers)).

• 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 third day of this November ("Studio 10") had a video involving one its hosts (Joe Emer) telling a certain person at a certain fair, 'Y'all said you were going to be featured in something called 'Carnival Eats'. Tell me about that?" and the person saying, "Yes, so, we are really excited about that. They are filming with us. They have chosen four food vendors to feature on their show; [their] food channel show. Um, so we're really excited. They're filming us now, so we can't wait to see what happens" without any other details pertaining to what they were discussing (an article with an explanation for what they were discussing was posted onto a World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV with a recording of their doing so).

• 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 third day of this November ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a news report  in which the name normally used for a local news program for their companion station (WFNA-TV)** were used to end it ("Allen Carter for "The Gulf Coast CW News at 9:00 [p.m.]"), a video of a news report in which the letters "WKRG" and the name normally used for all of their local news programs were used to end it ("I'm Devon Walsh, WKRG News 5"), a video of a news report that appeared to had been live in which only part of the name normally used for all of their local news programs without the letters "WKRG" were used to end it ("Mary Smith, News 5"), and a video of a news report in which no names were used to end it (it was said to been by a news reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV named Bryant Clerkley by one of the news presenters for the program (Rose Ann Haven)). 

(*the news presenter had referred to the person as Rob Lehocky of the Senior Bowl (a former sports reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (she did not say he was while he was on the programs))

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