- According to this past Friday's (February 6th) edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."), they were set to have special local programming on the Tuesday of February 17th (Fat Tuesday) between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. about Carnival parades expected to take place in their local broadcast area that day.
- According to today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10"), their entire staff wore red in observance of National Wear Red Day.
- Today's edition of WALA-TV's local 4:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News
at 4:00 p.m.") had a report about another resident of their local
broadcast area being a contestant for the current series of editions of
the national TV program "American Idol" and her plan to talk about her experience on it with them during the next calendar week (the
person was identified as Glennellen Anderson of Gulf Shores, Alabama; as for the other residents who were contestants on the program, their names were Erica Washington of Mobile and Alex Wilhelm of Daphne, Alabama).
- The regular news presenters for WALA-TV's local midday and evening news programming plans for Monday through Friday (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) were in Daphne, Alabama on today's editions of their local midday and evening news programs
("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.", "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.", and "FOX 10
News at 9:00 p.m.) doing live reports about the Carnival parade that would take place there tonight while one of the regular news presenters (Eric Reynolds) for their local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") substituted for them at their broadcast facility in Mobile since they were set to be participating in the parade along with some of their other colleagues (including the regular hosts for "Studio 10" (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) and their sports reporter (Michael Brannon)).
- WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV had reports about the aforementioned public statement in their local news programming shortly after it was issued.
- This past Tuesday's (February 3rd) edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") had their assignment manager (Tom Russo) saying they were getting calls from the provider of their primary network programming (the National Broadcasting Company; also known as NBC) and broadcasters in Europe concerning the author of a popular story titled "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Nelle Harper Lee) and plans to have an earlier story she wrote about one of its characters published this July since her home was located in their local broadcast area (in Monroeville, Alabama).
- One of the high-definition cable TV channels in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile had a new promotional advertisement for WFNA-TV in which the voice of one of the announcers for WFNA-TV's new companion station (WKRG-TV) was used to promote a network program they were set to broadcast today (the name of the announcer was Jay Gardner; the name of the network program was "The Flash"; as for the cable TV channel, it was for the USA Network, a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service).
- The weather reporter on this past Monday's (February 2nd) edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news programs ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") mentioned the cities of Seattle, Washington, and Boston, Massachusetts, along with their weather conditions at the time of the program's broadcast as part of his report since the professional football teams closest to the cities (the Seahawks of Seattle and the Patriots of New England) were playing a championship game of football (the 49th Super Bowl, or Super Bowl XLIX) on the previous day (he said the rain in Seattle reflected its mood after its local team lost the game).
- WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV had the ceremony that took place in
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania today in observance of Groundhog Day
broadcast live as part of their local morning news programs ("WKRG News This Morning" and "Local 15 Today"), including its announcement about
winter being expected to last six more calendar weeks. WALA-TV had the ceremony
broadcast live also as part of their own local morning news program
("FOX 10 News in the Morning"), but not the announcement.
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This past Sunday's edition of WKRG-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10:00") and today's edition of their local morning news program had a report about a new TV advertisement for a law firm based in Mobile (Maloney-Frost) being on WPMI-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel/virtual channel 15-1) during its break from the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) programming about the 49th Super Bowl game between its second and third quarters (halftime).
- WPMI-TV's local weekly legal advice program ("Local 15 LawCall") was
broadcast shortly after 12:00 a.m. today instead of during its regular time period of
10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. this past Sunday, February 1st (it was not live
like most of its previous editions), due to their local 10:00 p.m. news
program ("Local 15 News at 10:00") and a special edition of the network
variety program "Tonight" taking its place in their regular programming
plan for Sunday due to their broadcast of the National Broadcast
Company's programming about the 49th Super Bowl game and a dramatic
network program titled "The Blacklist" before the local news program.
- WGOK-AM (900)/WXQW-AM (660) had a new edition of a local public
affairs program they usually had in their Sunday programming for the
first time in two weeks today during their regular time period for it
(the program was titled "Pass It On"; the time period was 3:00 p.m. to
3:30 p.m.).
- The main broadcast channels for WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV recently had a promotional advertisement for the news department of WPMI-TV with videos of various news reporters for the department and a message proclaiming the year 2015 "the year" of WPMI-TV (their brand name ("Local 15") took the place of their call letters in the message).