News for Sunday, November 6th, 2016

(the report titled "News for Saturday, November 5th, 2016" was updated)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Sunday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") had a segment dedicated to home improvement involving its news presenter (Chad Petri) and one of the hosts for a syndicated TV program based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama dedicated to home improvement (Allen Lyle of "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford").*

• The news presenter for the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first halves of the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. this past Saturday on the fifth day of this November (James Gordon on "Local 15 News at 5 p.m." and "Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") used the phrase, "Keep your channel locked into Local 15 all day long" on both programs while promoting their plans for broadcasting reports about elections expected to occur next Tuesday on the eighth day of this November. 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV was set to have a theatrical movie around the end of daylight saving time (1:59:59 a.m. Central daylight time) for this calendar year (specifically between 1:02 a.m. Central daylight time and 2:02 a.m. Central standard time this Sunday) instead of the types of programs that were usually part of its regular programming plan for Sunday mornings in recent times around the time daylight saving time ended this calendar year (the programs were usually a syndicated interview program (usually the one named "The Tim McCarver Show") and a paid program; as for the theatrical movie broadcast in place of them, it was the one released to the general public in the year 2004 named "Twisted")

(*the host named Allen Lyle used to be a news presenter for the local news operation at WPMI-TV)

News for Saturday, November 5th, 2016 (updated)

• WALA-TV and WPMI-TV had some video with logos for a TV station located in the city of Montgomery in central Montgomery (WSFA-TV) and the holding company for the station (Raycom Media) for some reports they had about the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) in their local news programming for this past Thursday on the third day of this November.  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Saturday ("Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") had a report about a candidate for the presidency of the United States usually ignored by their local news programs since the start of his campaign for the presidency last January (Gary Johnson).*

• The weather reporter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Thursday (Jake Dunne on "Local 15 Today") used part of its broadcast to encourage school teachers in the local broadcast area for WPMI-TV to invite either him or one of the other weather reporters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Chris Dunn and Kelly Foster) to talk about weather at their schools (he suggested they use electronic mail to invite either him or one of the other weather reporters). 

(*the report was to a attributed to TV station with the same owners as WPMI-TV located in the city of Salt Lake City in the state of Utah (KUTV-TV).

(update for Monday, November 7th: WKRG-TV had video similar to the ones for WALA-TV and WPMI-TV for a report they had about the governor in some of the local news programming they had on this Saturday, except it only had the logo for the TV station) 

News for Friday, November 4th, 2016

• According to some messages on the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV dated for this past Thursday (the third day of this November), some participants of a telephonic survey conducted for them concerning four candidates for the presidency of the United States (Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump) received a "follow-up" question that did not reflect their answers to its first question while participating.   

• One of the news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV this past Thursday morning (Darwin Singleton on "Local 15 Today") promoted a plan by their holding (or "parent") company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) after presenting a news report related to that plan on the program that day (this is what he about the plan: "On Saturday night (this Saturday), our parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group is producing a one-hour special (or Internet broadcast) looking at the opioid epidemic plaguing our country right now"). 

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Michael White) mocked one the hosts of a local TV program of theirs dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") while substituting for him this Friday (he was speaking to its other host/weather reporter (Chasity Byrd) at the time; as for what he said about the other host: "I mean how many times have you been doing weather on this show and Joe says, 'Aw, when is the rain going to stop? You know, when is it going to stop raining"? (the other host responded by saying,"He does that with temperatures too". Immediately after her response he said, "I just don't think we can make him happy with weather"). 

News for Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

• One of the news presenters on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Wednesday on the second day of this November (Jessica Taloney on "WKRG News 5 This Morning") used some parts of its broadcast (such as weather segments) to present jokes related to heat ("It's so hot" jokes).

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had special local news programming between 12:33 a.m. and 1:09 a.m. after having special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) since 6:00 p.m. this past Wednesday. 

• The news presenter for the local news programming mentioned in the previous paragraph (Bob Grip) presented some reports about his self and some colleagues of his (including some news reporters named Alexa Knowles, Candace Murphy, and Rebekah Hoeger; a producer named Carly Bragg, and a camera operator named Rodney Rocker) as part of that programming (the report about him (including a comment about a relative of his) involved a high school in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama; the report about the colleagues involved some games they played at a fair in Mobile as part of a contest named "the Media Olympics").

News for Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today") had a report about a experimental medical procedure involving a member of their local news operation (a sports reporter named Lance Crawford).

• WKRG-TV had some interviews with a person who used to perform on a national TV program named "Hee Haw" (LuLu Roman) on some of their local news programs for this Wednesday (one of them was part of the program that appeared on their main broadcast channel between 8:25 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. (she appeared to be on the set for their local news programs) whereas the other one was part of a news report for the local news program that appeared on the channel between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (she appeared to be on a porch in the report; as for what the report was about, it was about her past and her plan to attend a special luncheon expected to occur in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama this Thursday on the third day of this November).  

• One of the news presenters on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. (Lenise Ligon on "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") talked about editions of two syndicated TV programs of theirs ("Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune") being set to appear on their main broadcast channel during time periods in which they were usually not part of their programming in recent times this Friday (2:00 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. for "Jeopardy!" and 2:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. for "Wheel of Fortune"*) due to a plan for the channel to have special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the time periods in which those programs were usually set to appear on the channel from Monday through Friday in recent times this Wednesday (6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for "Jeopardy!" and 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for "Wheel of Fortune").* 

(*the channel was usually set to have a syndicated courtroom program named "The People's Court" during both of these time periods from Tuesday through Saturday in recent times) 

News for Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first halves of the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 5" and "WKRG News 5 at 6") had news reports (such as this one) with one of their reporters (Pat Peterson) posing a comment about the subject of the reports ("That's pretty low down") for one of the persons interviewed for the reports.

• The sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) said a golfer for the University of Alabama (Steven Setterstrom) was his nephew immediately after presenting a report about him on the sports segment of the local news program that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Monday on the thirty-first day of this past October ("WKRG News 5 at 6"), 

• The news presenter on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Monday (Darwin Singleton on "Local 15 Today") used a part of the program normally used for acknowledging birthdays to acknowledge a news reporter for WPMI-TV (Jasmine Williams) giving birth to a person last Friday on the twenty-eighth of this past October (note: he also acknowledged her husband (Clinton Bourgeois), a camera operator for WKRG-TV, while congratulating them on the birth).  

News for Monday, October 31st, 2016

• The first part of a new edition of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10" for WALA-TV) did not begin like the first parts of most of its previous editions (those past editions began with an animated title sequence; as for how this edition began, it began with video of its hosts (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) pretending to be characters in theatrical movies like the "Ghostbusters" movie originally shown publicly in the year 1984 (the host named Chasity Byrd pretended to be one of the characters who captured ghosts whereas the one named Joe Emer pretended to be one of those ghosts, specifically the one named "Slimer").

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a programming segment with audio of the announcer for the opening segments of their local news programs (Jay Gardner) saying, "Due to special CBS sports [football] coverage next Saturday [on the fifth day of November this calendar year], children's programming normally seen from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. can be seen from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Thanks for watching WKRG News 5" (this would mean the channel would only have the first half of a network news program from their main provider of network programming ("CBS This Morning: Saturday" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) this Saturday (between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.).*

(*according to the guides to the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, the "special coverage" was expected to appear on the channel by the second half of the hour of 10:00 a.m. that day and the type of programming it would have during the first half would be "paid programming" (or "infomercials"))