Conversations in Broadcasting #97

A certain of a certain news program related to WALA-TV that appeared to have had been part of their main broadcast channel during the the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the fourteenth day of the month of August for the calendar year 2019 ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had this conversation involving some of its contributors (Byron Day (presenter of news) and Lenise Ligon (presenter of news)):

Byron Day: An Alabama man mowed fifty lawns in fifty states, to honor veterans. You might have heard of him.

Lenise Ligon: Rodney King Junior just finishing up, his last tour serving others and now he's headed out to do it again, this time with the help of his brothers in blue          

Byron Day: Yeah, Rodney is hoping to bring communities together, and he's asking police in each state to help him, mow his way across America. McKinley Strothers has the story.

[note #1: the program appeared to have had a certain video that appeared to have had began with a certain disembodied voice being used to say, "Back to work", a certain being saying, "So I'm going to all fifty states. This is my actual--actually my sixth time going to all fifty states. Driving to forty eight, and flying to Alaska" immediately afterwards, and a certain other disembodied voice being used to say, "Lawn groomer extraordinaire Rodney Smith, touring the country again, one lawn at a time" immediately afterwards while appearing to have had some digital graphics with texts such as "50 LAWNS IN 50 STATES" and "AL MAN BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE HELP OF POLICE" by this point]

Byron Day: All right, Rodney. That was McKinley Strothers reporting. 

[note #2: a certain other part of the program that appeared to have had been part of the channel in that period of time before this one that day appeared to have had the contributor named Byron Day saying, "When we come back, he's mowed his way across America and he's set to do it again. Only this time, Rodney Smith Junior is getting some help. We'll tell you who's pitching in." before appearing to have had faded to black (within ten seconds)]
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A certain part of a certain news program related to WALA-TV that appeared to have had been part of their main broadcast channel during the hour of 7:00 a.m. on the Saturday of the seventeenth day of the month of August of the calendar year 2019 ("FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") appeared to have had this conversation between one of its contributors (Asha Staples (presenter of news)) and Matt Barrentine (reporter of weather)):

Asha Staples: Good morning and thank you for choosing FOX 10 News on this Saturday morning. Today is August seventeenth, I'm Asha Staples with, meteorologist Matt Barrentine with a look at our weekend forecast, and earlier I said--

Matt Barrentine: Heh heh heh heh.

Asha Staples: -- it was a little bit of relief, but you guys just caught [what] I said, uh, Asha you're crazy, so--

Matt Barrentine: Heh heh heh, heh heh.  

Asha Staples: --  it's still hot though, but I felt it a little bit.           

Matt Barrentine: Heh--Heh--yeah, yeah, uh, I guess, uh I mean, uh, like I said earlier, if you can tell the difference between a, one oh seven heat index and a one eleven heat index, you're probably need to go on vacation for a little while. 

Asha Staples: I'm going to send that to our newscast director--

Matt Barrentine: Heh heh.

Asha Staples: -- to let him know I need a vacation.

Matt Barrentine: There you go. All right, let's go and, uh, talk about our temperatures out there right now. It's pretty mild outside, to begin the day as you would imagine. Still, it's all ready, uh, eighty in Pensacola, eighty-five, in Destin, oof, and Dauphin Island too. Boy, that is, uh, a warm start to the day. Seventy-seven in Mobile right now, seventy-seven in Gulf Shores to start the day, so a, uh, a mild start.
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A certain part of a certain news program related to WALA-TV that appeared to have had been part of their main broadcast channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the nineteenth day of the month of August for the calendar year 2019 ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had this conversation involving some of its contributors (Lenise Ligon (presenter of news), Byron Day (presenter of news), and Brendan Kirby (reporter of news)):

Lenise Ligon: The Mobile River bridge toll controversy continues to be a hot topic. A lot of people are against the idea of paying to cross, especially being locals. Investigative reporter Brendan Kirby is talking now about how much the I ten tolls would cost you with Byron:

Byron Day: Of course, Lenise, no one is liking the idea of tolls for the new Mobile River bridge. We are going to try to make a little bit easier. We have a calculator, on our Web site at FOX10 TV dot com, that you can actually find out how much it's going to cost you, no matter how many times you cross the bridge. Plus we got a segment in two.  Brendan Kirby, our investigative reporter, is here, to show us how this thing is going to work. Brendan

Brendan Kirby: Yeah, well, Byron, this can be a very confusing figure in with your individual--

Byron Day: Sure.

Brendan Kirby: -- personal burden is going to be. It's going to be depending on how often to drive, whether you drive, all of it or part of it. there's discounts that are available, but only after you had made four crossings, so there's

Byron Day: Wait, hold it, hold it, hold it,

Brendan Kirby: [indistinguishable]

Byron Day: Two minutes.

Brendan Kirby: Oh, I'm sorry. 

Byron Day: You have two minutes. Ok, so we can't get into all of that--

Brendan Kirby: Yeah, I'm sorry. 

Byron Day: -- we're just going to show them how the thing works, ok. Go along with it. Here we go. Uh, three, let me get in a little closer here and I'll, uh, all right, here we go. Uh, three, two... obviously all the talk is about the tolls, how much it's actually going to cost you. Well we got a calculator now at FOX10 News, on our--on our Web site at FOX10TV dot com that's going to show you how much it's going to cost. Investigative reporter Brendan Kirby is here, to share that with us.

(note: a certain part of a certain World Wide Web site related to WALA-TV appeared to have had a video similar to some of this part that day).