News for Friday, December 29th, 2017

(note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Thursday, December 28th, 2017") was amended (twice))

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a video with an announcement concerning a certain type of software named Alexa and the local news operation at WALA-TV during one of its breaks from having a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles named "Studio 10" on the Thursday of the twenty-eighth day of this Thursday.   

• 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-eighth day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a video of a news report (attributed to a news reporter for the news operation at WALA-TV named Kati Weis) in which the word "crazy" was being used in reference to some of its subjects by its narrator.

• The local news programming 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 twenty-eighth day of this December ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Hayley Minogue*) saying this after presenting a report related to reindeer: "How about those reindeer? I can't even pay attention to what I'm reading because I'm trying to look at the reindeer".

• Some of the local news programming for WALA-TV since the Monday of the twenty-fifth day of this December had members of the news operation at WALA-TV presenting reports of a plan for the main broadcast channel of WALA-TV to have a certain "special" (related to a plan to hold a certain game of football involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Clemson University on the Monday of the first day of January for the next calendar year (2018)) on the Sunday of the thirty-first day of this December (during the second half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. for that day). 

• 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-eighth day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Bob Grip) presenting an opinionated report (similar to one in the form of an article World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV) related to some reports it had regarding the results of a certain election in the state of Alabama before then (this is what he was saying: "There were more than twenty two thousand write-in votes in the Senate election featuring some well-known names and not so well-known names. Mobile County independent candidate Lee Busby received the highest number of write-ins of four hundred eighty two followed by incumbent senator Luther Strange. Nick Saban edged out Jeff Sessions by one vote, mayor Sandy Stimpson received thirty one votes, representative Bradley Byrne thirteen, somebody named Dick Dock got one vote, so did Lame Duck. Now Baldwin County's top write-in candidate, again, was Lee Busby with five hundred thirty nine votes, Luther Strange received five hundred seven. Jeff Sessions, Nick Saban, Charles Barkley, and Tommy Tubberville got votes in Baldwin County, as did Sean Hannity, Spencer Collier, Boo Radley -- who, of course, doesn't exist; it's a fictional character -- and Jimmy Buffet".** 

 (*she was not a regular news presenter for the program or any of the other local news programs for WKRG-TV in recent times (she was usually a news reporter for programs such as those before this Friday in recent times)

 (**the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. the same day ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had the same news presenter presenting a similar report in which the "Boo Radley" mentioned in the previous report was mentioned in a different way: "Boo Radley, from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' --")