Saturday, December 23, 2017

News for Friday, December 22nd, 2017 (amended)

 (note: the sentence at the bottom of this report was amended)
  • The animated sequences for 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-first day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") were broadcast at rates higher than the rates at which such sequences were usually broadcast in some of the local news programming it had before then in recent times.
  • Some of the local news programming WKRG-TV had on their main broadcast channel Thursday of the twenty-first day of this December had some members of the news operation at WKRG-TV (such as news presenters and reporters) saying a certain day ("the first day of winter") did not "feel like it" (note: the aforementioned Thursday was the first day of astronomical winter in southwest Alabama for the rest of this calendar year and the beginning of the first half of the next calendar year).   
  • 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-first day of this December ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Devon Walsh**) presenting a report concerning an interview broadcast by a certain TV station without mentioning the name of the station (she had described the station only as "an Alabama TV station") whereas the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the same period of time that day ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lenise Ligon) presenting a similar report*** in which one of the local news programs for WALA-TV was referenced.
  • 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-first day of this December ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its weather reporter (Thomas Geboy****) saying this regarding a certain "Rudolph" without explaining whom or what he was referencing while discussing a possibility of fog in the local broadcast area for WKRG-TV (this is what he was saying while doing so: "And once we see the fog build in it's going last through the morning hours, So I'm going to say it to you over and over like a broken record, make sure you give yourself extra time, like a broken record, also make sure to give your self plenty of space between you and the car in front of you, and don't forget to use the low beams, that's what Rudolph would do and that's what you should do as well").
(*WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were related to each other due their being members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)
(**she was not a regular news presenter for the program)
(***a report similar to this one was presented by the same news presenter on the local news program that appeared on the channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. the same day ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."))
(****he was not a regular weather reporter for installments of the program on days other than Saturday and Sunday)

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