News for Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

• The World Wide Web sites for two Internet services specialized in providing software applications nicknamed "apps" (Google Play and iTunes) each had a logo for the local news operation at WALA-TV that was different from the logo normally used on their local news programs in recent times (update: the logo not normally on the programs was part of a report about an update to a software application for WALA-TV that was part of their local news program for the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.").  

• The format for the first edition of the new local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Monday on the fifth day of this December ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") differed from that of their local news program for the first half of that hour that day ("WKRG News 5 at 6:00") by having one of the regular news presenters for Monday through Friday editions of their local news program for the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. (Peter Albrecht of "WKRG News 5 at 5") paired with one of the news presenters for Monday through Friday editions of the program for the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. (Rose Ann Haven) and by having him initially present news reports alone while standing in the studio for all of their local news programs (a digital list of names for the reports he presented was superimposed beside him as he presented them (this was the same way reports were usually presented on their local news program for the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m. for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 at 9") in recent times). 

• One of the breaks for the new local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph had a promotional video with audio of a professional announcer (Jeff Davis) saying, "Looking for 'The Andy Griffith Show'? Don't worry!" before saying where residents of the local broadcast area for the video could still find local broadcasts of the aforementioned "show" (he made reference to the main broadcast channel for the companion station of WKRG-TV (WFNA-TV, even though he called it by its brand name ("the CW55")) and the time period in which the "show" was to be part of its programming from Monday through Friday (the second half of the hour of 9:00 p.m.)) since it was no longer set to appear on the channel with the new local news program from Monday through Friday by this past Monday (a list of cable TV and satellite TV channels for the main programming feed for WFNA-TV appeared throughout the entire video while a blurry version of the opening sequence for "The Andy Griffith Show" appeared behind it (the music for the sequence played throughout the video also)).*

(*WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV were members of the same company (Media General) with the same broadcast studio)

News for Monday, December 5th, 2016

• Earlier this Monday, the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV did not have a new edition of a national news program that was usually part of its programming during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("The CBS Morning News" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)*) during the first half of that hour in accordance with the guides to its programming from Zap2it and TitanTV (the channel still had the program that usually preceded it on the channel in recent times: "The CBS Overnight News" (it was from CBS also)).  

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a "preview" of reports planned for the edition of the local news program that was part of its programming between the beginning of the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the beginning of the hour of 7:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") in place of the last segment of the national news program that preceded it this Monday ("The CBS Overnight News"). 

• Only one of the news presenters for the local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph was part of the segments of it broadcast during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. this Monday (the name of the news presenter who appeared in those segments was Bill Riales; as for the name of the one who did not appear in those segments, it was Jessica Taloney (she appeared in other segments of its edition for this Monday, though)).  

(*CBS was the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV) 

News for Sunday, December 4th, 2016

• One of the members of the local news operation at WKRG-TV (a weather reporter named Alan Sealls) was honored at an awards ceremony for the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences this past Saturday on the third day of this December (some video of how he was honored at the ceremony was uploaded onto the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV and a professional Facebook page attributed to him). 

• One of the members of the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Kelly Foster) appeared to be substituting for one of its other members (Darwin Singleton) in the role of news presenter for the local news programs that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the morning and midday periods of this past Friday on the second day of this December ("Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon") while one of its other members (Jake Dunne) appeared to be substituting for her in the role of weather reporter for those same programs (she said the one named Darwin Singleton was off that day in the first segment of the edition of the morning news program that appeared on the channel that day).  

• The audio for the programming feed on one of the digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV was silenced by audio of a report of severe weather in their local broadcast area attributed to the National Weather Service while graphics related to the report (white text) appeared over the video for its programming feed (they appeared over the top-half of the video) whereas the audio for the programming feed on their main broadcast channel was still audible while different graphics related to the report (such as a map of the area where the severe weather was reportedly located and a ticker with text scrolling from right to left) appeared over the video for its own programming feed (they appeared near the bottom of the video).*

(*the sub-channel usually had programs from a national TV programming service named Memorable Entertainment Television (it also had the nickname Me-TV))

News for Saturday, December 3rd, 2016

• WALA-TV had local news programming during the first half of the hour of 12:00 a.m. this Saturday after their main broadcast channel had special football programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the time period in which they usually had local news programming on Friday nights in recent times this past Friday on the second day of this December (9:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") had a news report from outside their local news operation attributed to a former news reporter and news presenter for WKRG-TV (Kimberly Curth of WVUE-TV in the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana) without any mention of its source.

• The live video stream for WALA-TV had some video from around a building with the name "Premiere Cinemas" located in the city of Spanish Fort in southwest Alabama instead of their local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings during its broadcast for this Saturday (two news reporters of theirs (Hal Scheurich and Alexa Knowles) appeared in the video along with video of the interior of an automobile).

(*the reporter named Alexa Knowles appeared to be doing live reports for the program at certain points of the video) 

News for Friday, Decemebr 2nd, 2016

• The programming feed for WXQW-AM had a promotional announcement (by a professional announcer named Jim Cutler) about their broadcast operation being "Mobile's new home" for news and talk programming this Friday nearly fourteen months after their broadcast frequency was set to have such programming on a regular basis (back in October 2015).*

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Bill Riales) had interviewed a news reporter for their companion station (Katrice Nolan for WFNA-TV) about a plan to hold auditions for someone to promote the broadcast operation of the companion station this Saturday on the third day of this December in the city of Foley in southwest Alabama (she said this while describing the type of person wanted for the position of promoting the broadcast operation of the station: "We are looking for the next 'CW55 Star' and it means just that: the star. Just someone to be able to learn what we do here at News 5 (the brand name for the local news operation at WKRG-TV) and be able to write their own stories, shoot their own stories, edit their own stories, and of course give us their personality").**

 (*their broadcast frequency was initially set to have such programming on a regular basis from Monday through Sunday before being to set to have it from only Monday through Friday before switching to the programming feed for WGOK-AM (one of their companion stations) from Saturday through Sunday this past January)

(**the interview was part of a local news program that appeared that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during a break in its presentation of a national news program from their main provider of network programming ("CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS))

News for Thursday, December 1st, 2016

 (note: one of the hyperlinks (or links) in the list of hyperlinks on this site ("Links to Other Sites") was replaced with a different one due to the disappearance of the page to which it linked and the fact that the radio station it was about had its name changed recently (it used to be named WDXZ-AM before being named WJNZ-AM back in July of this calendar week)). 

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV was used to stream a football game involving a football team for a high school located in their local broadcast area (McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama) this past Wednesday on the thirtieth day of this past November. 

• According to Zap2it and TitanTV, the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have a national news program that was usually set to be part of its programming during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. on a daily basis from Monday through Friday in recent times ("The CBS Morning News" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) be part of its programming during the first half on the same basis by next Monday on the fifth day of this December due to their plan to having local news programming on the feed during that time period on the same basis by the same day. 

• Some of the local news programs for WKRG-TV since this past Monday on the twenty-eighth day of this November had reports about certain members of their broadcast operation (including Randy Patrick Setterstrom (sports reporter), Allen Carter (news reporter), Peter Albrecht (news presenter and news reporter), Alan Sealls (weather reporter), Mark Bunting (vice president and general manager), Rose Ann Haven (news presenter), Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno (news reporter), Debbie Williams (news reporter), and Pat Peterson (news reporter)), participating in a special effort of theirs to  donate toys to residents of their local broadcast area who may be considered less fortunate ("The Great Toy Drive").

News for Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

• The weather reporter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this past Tuesday on the twenty-ninth day of this November (Matt Barrentine on "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to be mocking certain folks while presenting a report about rain predicted for their local broadcast area this Sunday on the fourth day of this December (this is what he said: "I know, wow, no, not rain on the weekend. Stop it, we need it. We'll take it whenever we can get it, right?"). 

• Some of the local news programs for WKRG-TV had reports about their companion station (WFNA-TV) being set to have special programming about a series of football games involving football teams for various high schools in the state of Alabama (including two teams from their local broadcast areas) expected to occur between this Wednesday and this Thursday (on the first day of this December) since this past Monday on the twenty-eighth day of this November (the reports erroneously had one of the broadcast channels for WFNA-TV set to have such programming referenced by the name of its main provider of network programming (Bounce TV) as if it were to one set to provide this particular sort of programming).  

• The weather reporter and the news presenters for the edition of the local news program mentioned in the first paragraph of this report (the names of those news presenters were Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) appeared to be expressing their personal feelings about a series of fires that affected parts of the city of Gatlinburg in the state of Tennessee earlier this calendar week (the news presenter named Lenise Ligon said she was in the city this past September before saying many folks in their local broadcast area were "heartbroken" by the fires due to their personal connections to the city after sending "her heart out" to it; the news presenter named Bob Grip said he was sending his "heart out" to a famous singer with an amusement park located near the city (the name of the amusement park was Dollywood; the name of the singer was Dolly Parton) he said was performing in their local broadcast area (specifically the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida); the weather reporter said another member of WALA-TV (a weather reporter and host named Chasity Byrd) was in the city "last month" before saying a lot of "go up there").