News for Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 (amended)

• New musical compositions and graphics for WEAR-TV's broadcast news operation were implemented this past Tuesday, July 14th (the ones they usually had in their local TV news programming before then were displaced by the new ones).

• One of the new graphics implemented into the broadcast news operation for WEAR-TV this past Tuesday was a logo that usually did not appear in any of their TV programming by then, even though it was all ready on their official World Wide Web site by then, along with their official Facebook page and Twitter page (the logo that was part of the previous set of graphics for their local TV news programs still appeared in their broadcasts on a regular basis by then). 

• According to the official Twitter page for Mediacom Communications, some negotiators for Mediacom Communications and the holding company for WFNA-TV (Media General) were unable to make a new retransmission consent deal for WFNA-TV's programming by the time their previous retransmission consent deal for their programming expired this past Tuesday (it would have allowed Mediacom Communications to continue having programming from WFNA-TV retransmitted through some of their cable TV systems after the previous deal expired). 

(amendment note: the word "graphics" in the top paragraph of this report was hyperlinked to images of the new graphics for WEAR-TV's news operation on the World Wide Web site Florida News Center)

News for Tuesday, July 14th, 2015

• Between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. today, the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had an episode of a comedic TV program titled "Gimme a Break!" instead of an episode of the comedic program it usually had during this time period from Monday through Friday before this calendar week (the name of that program was "The Cosby Show"). 

• WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WEAR-TV each had special network news programming about a live speech by the United States (Barack Obama) take precedence over their local news program they had on their main broadcast channel between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. today (WALA-TV had video of the president speaking live as part of their own local news program for that time period).

News for Monday, July 13th, 2015 (corrected)

(correction note: the word "northwest" was used by mistake in an earlier version of this report before it was corrected with the word "northeast")  

• According to WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV, they were set to have special live reports from Monroeville, Alabama (northeast of Mobile) on their local Monday through Friday news programs for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning" and "Local 15 Today" respectively) this Tuesday, July 14th, about a novel set to be released that day that was authored by a resident and native of Monroeville (the name of the novel was "Go Set a Watchman"; the name of its author was Nelle Harper Lee).

News for Sunday, July 12th, 2015

• The news presenter for WKRG-TV's local news programs for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") used part of today's edition of the program for Sunday mornings to encourage members of its audience to use the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV to publicize images of folks sweating or "feeling hot" outside (or "people being hot", as he put initially before explaining that he meant images of people sweating or images with "evidence of people hot outside") while promoting the page with the weather reporter for both this program and the one for Saturday mornings (Melissa Constanzer) after she encouraged members of its audience to use the page to add to its collection of images of an aerial exhibition that occurred in their local broadcast area this past Saturday, July 11th (she said some members of what she called "the weather team" loved finding the ones that were all ready in its collection). 

News for Saturday, July 11th, 2015

• According to a message attributed to a news presenter and news reporter for WKRG-TV (Devon Walsh) that was posted onto her professional Facebook page this past Friday, July 10th, their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9:00") had its own studio audience that day: a group of persons from a summer camp based in Mobile.*

• A video recording of a regular feature of WKRG-TV's local news programming in recent times in which some of the presenters for such programming usually showed and discussed various subjects pertaining to the World Wide Web was uploaded onto their official World Wide Web site shortly after its broadcast today (the name of the segment was "Around the Web and Around the World").

(*note from the author: in case you did not see and/or previous report for this weblog ("News for Friday, July 10th, 2015") and/or the edition of the aforementioned news program, I wish to inform you that it was shorter than most of its past editions and the reason for it having been so lies the aforementioned report) 

News for Friday, July 10th, 2015

• According to some messages from the official Twitter account for WXXV-TV in Gulfport, Mississippi, a former brand name for WFNA-TV in Mobile, Alabama* was adopted for the programming on one of the digital sub-channels for WXXV-TV (the brand name was "The Gulf Coast CW"**). 

• According to WPMI-TV, they were one of the sponsors of a fishing tournament near Orange Beach, Alabama (the Blue Marlin Grand Championship of the Gulf Fishing Tournament) that was part of their local news programming today and this past Thursday, July 9th (some of the news presenters in the programming acknowledged their having sponsored it). 

• The fishing tournament mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report was part of some special programming plans for WPMI-TV mentioned in an earlier report for this weblog (the report was titled "News for Monday, July 6th, 2015"). 

• WKRG-TV had a special network news programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) take precedence over having a new edition of their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") on their main broadcast channel in accordance with its regular programming plan for Monday through Friday during the first 10 minutes of the time period in which it usually had a new edition of it (it was usually from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. with breaks for commercial advertisements) before finally having one for the rest of that time period (with breaks for commercial advertisements), even though the special news program was still in progress by then. 

(*even though WFNA-TV is located in Mobile, their license with the Federal Communications Commission has Gulf Shores, Alabama as their city of license)
(**both WXXV-TV and WFNA-TV are network stations for the CW Television Network, a national TV programming service)

News for Thursday, July 9th, 2015

• According to WKRG-TV, they had a plan for having one of the syndicated TV programs in their companion station's regular programming plans for Monday through Friday replaced by next Monday, July 13th (the name of the station was WFNA-TV; the name of the program was "The Cosby Show"). 

• According to WPMI-TV, they were set to have special programming about a fishing tournament expected to occur near Orange Beach, Alabama (the tournament would be called the Blue Marlin Grand Championship of the Gulf Fishing Tournament) during time periods in which they usually had local news programming this Saturday, July 11th (they would have it between 5:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and between 10:15 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.). They would still have local news programming during those time periods, but only during their first halves (between 5:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. and between 10:00 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.).