News for Thursday, January 18th, 2018

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV appeared to have had a video of one of the news presenters for the news operation at WKRG-TV (Devon Walsh) saying, "Tune in at noon this Friday for the doctor is in" while having a graphic of the name of a local news program it was set to have during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. (noon) from Monday through Friday in recent times (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 at Noon").

• 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 Monday of the fifteenth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30" and "WKRG News 5 at 10" respectively) each had one of their news presenters saying, "Don't panic" while presenting reports of the state of Alabama being "under a state of emergency" due to certain weather.  

• One of the announcers for the animated sequences often used to open the local news programs that had appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV in recent times was stated to had been part of a certain tribute (in the form of audio) to a certain person (named "David Letterman") on a World Wide Web site named Snark Monkey (note #1: the audio with the tribute appeared to had been uploaded onto the site in the calendar year 2015; as for the name of the announcer, it was Jay Gardner (note #2: you might access the part of the audio involving whom one of its speakers said was him by setting its player to 1:05:30)).

• 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 sixteenth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had some audio for what appeared to had been some live video of one of its reporters (Mary Smith) speaking from a remote location at a volume lower than that of the audio of the video that preceded it before appearing to have a video of one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying, "Ok, having a little bit of hard time hearing you there, Mary, but, uh, we're going to check in with you a little bit later, perhaps".

• 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 Wednesday of the seventeenth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") appeared to have had live videos of one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Christina Andress) in a remote location (identified as "Bay Minette") discussing an "experiment" involving a "water bottle" at certain points (one of them appeared to had her saying, "So I'm here with photojournalist Arnell Hamilton; he came up with a great experiment for us to do since it's so incredibly cold out here. We have a sixteen-ounce water bottle. We're going to leave it on the ground. We're going to set a timer for it right now to see how long it takes for it to freeze and I'm sure it will be frozen well before the end of this newscast" before appearing to have her saying, "While we were out here -- when we first got out here about an hour ago, we started an experiment with this water bottle over here because we wanted to see how long it would take for it to freeze. Now it's not totally frozen yet, but definitely about give it about twenty percent frozen out, uh --  it took about an hour for it to get that way, but don't let that trick you because it's not totally frozen yet because I am totally frozen out here. All right, well, we'll keep you guys updated on the water bottle situation and for now reporting live from the courthouse square in Bay Minette, Christina Andress, News 5"))".