News for Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

• Some of the local news programs that had appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV since the Saturday of the twenty-eighth day of this October each had certain members of their respective news operations either presenting or doing a report regarding a certain song with their explaining why they cannot have audio of it on their respective programs (note: the last three hyperlinks are for pages with videos of some of those reports whereas the first one is for a page with only text of a report concerning the song).

• A World Wide Web site named TVNewsCheck had an article dated for this Wednesday concerning the holding company for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV (the Nexstar Media Group) and a company specialized in providing certain programming feeds normally used for some digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV in recent times (one of the channels for WKRG-TV usually appeared to had a feed from a national TV programming named Laff whereas some of the channels for WFNA-TV usually appeared to had feeds from some national TV programming services named Grit and Bounce TV; as for the name of the company specialized in providing them, it was Katz Networks).*

• 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 Wednesday ("Gulf Coast Today") had one of its hosts (Terra Reeves) appearing to refer to certain persons as "idiots" in reference to a certain answer for a certain question on a certain part of the program dedicated to questions like it (the question was, "This is the top item people are most likely to buy in the wrong size"; the answer for it was "gloves"; the part of the program with it was named "Almost Impossible Trivia"; as for what she had said in reference to its answer, "I've always tried those in the store. Whatever. whatever. Some people are idiots").

• 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 Wednesday ("Studio 10")** had one of its hosts (Joe Emer) appearing to credit certain news reporters for the news operation at WALA-TV (Alexa Knowles and Lee Peck) for making what he had said were pumpkins on the set of the program resemble certain logos for their broadcast operation (one of them appeared to had been the husk of a pumpkin with holes resembling logos of theirs based upon a nickname for them ("FOX 10") whereas the other one appeared to had been a piece of such a husk resembling logos of theirs based on the number 10) before saying they were doing so during a certain game of baseball the night of the Tuesday of the thirty-first day of October for this calendar year (he had referred to the game as a "long World Series game" while doing so) as part of a discussion of those things with its other host (Michael White***). 

(*the channels (for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV) that usually appeared to had programming feeds from Laff and Grit usually appeared to had been part of their broadcast operations since this past October, even though WALA-TV usually had a digital sub-channel of their own with what appeared to have been a programming from Laff whereas WJTC-TV usually had one of their own with what appeared to had been a programming feed from Grit before then in recent times and afterwards)

(**an Internet video stream for the program appeared to have had video of a building in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia commonly called the White House and video of a room with a group of persons and a sign with the words "Police Department City of New York") in place of it while it was still on the channel)

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