News for Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

• The sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) said he was in his fourth year of being a voter for an awards program dedicated to honoring certain collegiate football players while discussing it on the local news program that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") this past Monday on the twelfth day of this December after its news presenter (Peter Albrecht) mentioned it to him as part of the discussion.

• Some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV and WPMI-TV used some of their local news programming to talk about their respective news operations having plans to broadcast special programming about a rally for a recent candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) expected to happen in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama this Saturday on the seventeenth day of this December. 

• Some of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine and Jason Smith) mentioned the plan mentioned in the previous paragraph in some of their broadcasts since this past Monday while talking about weather predictions for the day that plan was set to become effective.

• One of the news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Pat Peterson) referred to a person as "dumb" at the beginning of a news report that was part of their local news program for the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Monday. 

News for Monday, December 12th, 2016

• WDLT-FM and WBLX-FM had abrupt endings to their broadcasts of a local radio program dedicated to news and public affairs this past Sunday on the eleventh day of this December (the name of the program was "In Touch Gulf Coast"; as for how the broadcasts ended, both of them ended in silence that lasted several minutes).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV was originally set to have local news programming immediately before having any special programming about a parade of boats during the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Saturday on the tenth day of this December until a change in the start time for the parade caused them to have the special programming immediately before having any local news programming during that hour.

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a paid commercial program (or "infomercial") instead of a local news program during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Saturday due to the programming plan mentioned in the paragraph above this one. 

News for Sunday, December 11th, 2016 (amended)

(amendment note: more information was added to the first paragraph below this message and the notes in parentheses near the bottom of this report)

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV had a special (Christmas) episode of a new comedic TV program that became available to them and other broadcasters through syndication for the first time this past Saturday on the tenth day of this December during the hour of 1:00 p.m. that day (the name of the program was "This Just In"; as for the name of its syndicate, it was Associated Television International).*  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Friday on the ninth day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a report about the holding company for their main provider of network programming (21st Century Fox) having a "preliminary deal" to have complete ownership of a company specialized in providing TV programming in the United Kingdom (Sky). 

• The news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 5:00 a.m. this past Saturday (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") said the cancellation of a animated TV program originally broadcast on Saturday mornings named "Where's Wally?" (in the United Kingdom) and "Where's Waldo?" (in the United States) signaled "the beginning of the end of Saturday morning cartoon network programming" while presenting a profile about it on the news program this past Saturday.** 

(*a national TV programming service named Pop was set to have a regular episode of the program earlier that Saturday during the second half of the hour of 9:00 a.m.)
(**the news program usually had a profile (titled "Remember This?") of different TV program originally broadcast on Saturday mornings on a weekly basis)

News for Saturday, December 10th, 2016

(note: the report titled "News for Friday, December 9th, 2016" was corrected)

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a promotional video for a business based outside of their local broadcast area (Island Doctors in the city of Saint Augustine in the state of Florida) with an announcer saying, "Tune in Mondays at 9:20 a.m. to find out about Island Doctors' free Medicare advantage program" (the channel usually had a local news program during the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 at 9").  

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Michael White) made this comment about whom he said were "boneheads" in response to one of the hosts for a local TV program of theirs dedicated to entertainment and lifestyle (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") saying he heard some news about a "polar vortex" coming back while substituting for its other host (Chasity Byrd) as part of its installment for this past Friday on the ninth day of this December (this is what he (the weather reporter) said: "The thing is these--these boneheads in the national media that think that is just some--like, you know, brand new thing. This thing has always existed, it exists all year. It just deepens." (the host named Joe Emer said this in response: "Don't knock the polar vortex")).

• The news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 5:00 a.m. this Saturday (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") talked about a plan of theirs to have special programming about a Christmas parade expected to happen in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida this Saturday on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV) at the beginning of the second half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Saturday before having the programming appear on their own main broadcast channel simultaneously in case it were to have special network programming (from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) about a live football game at that time (it had advertisements for a break between the end of a special programming and the beginning of a "post-game" program until their special programming about the parade took its place about three minutes later).

News for Friday, December 9th, 2016 (corrected)

 (note: the third paragraph below this message was corrected)

• According to the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV, their main broadcast channel was set to have a special program about various choirs from their local broadcast area several times this December (the name of the program was "Sounds of the Season"). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a promotional video about a plan for it to have special local programming about a Christmas parade expected to happen in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida this Saturday on the tenth day of this December between the second half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. and the beginning of the hour of 7:00 p.m. that day.

• The news presenter for the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the morning and midday hours of this Friday (Darwin Singleton of "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon") talked about a plan for the channel to have special programming about a parade of boats expected to happen near the cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach in southwest Alabama this Saturday during the second half of the hour of 6:30 p.m. that day (he said both he and one of the weather reporters for their local news operation (Chris Dunn) were set to host such programming).*

 (*the same news presenter had previously said their companion station (WJTC-TV) was the station set to have such programming while part of a previous edition of the morning news program earlier in the calendar week) 

News for Thursday, December 8th, 2016

• WKRG-TV had some reports about a helicopter landing near their broadcast facility in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama on some of their local news programs this past Wednesday on the seventh day of this December.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had video of what appeared to be a radio announcer for WAVH-FM (Sean Sullivan) talking about a plan by a recent candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) to visit Mobile on the Saturday of the seventeenth day of this December. 

• The local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph had video of what appeared to be a live interview with a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the state of Alabama (Martha Roby) this Thursday (she appeared to be in the District of Columbia while the persons who interviewed her (the news presenters for the program: Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) were on the set of the news program in Mobile); as for how the interview as conducted, it appeared to be through the use of an artificial satellite).

News for Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

• The last segment of 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 Wednesday ("Local 15 Today") ended while its weather reporter (Kelly Foster) was presenting a weather report.

• One of the hosts for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") sounded amazed by some animated graphics for a weather report presented by its other host (Chasity Byrd) in the last segment of its broadcast through the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV this past Monday on the fifth day of this December (this is what he said the first time the graphics appeared during the segment: "Whoa! Look at that intro"; this is what he said after asking the other host to make them appear again: "Yes! What is that? Circle--metal circles?").

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) used part of the local news program that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Monday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") to say that he had always loved reading and that he shared his love for it by reading to students at an elementary school in the city of Daphne in southwest Alabama earlier that day (he said the name of the school was Daphne East Elementary School; as for what he said he was reading to the students, he said he read two books named "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Thomas' Christmas Delivery" one group of students and a book named "C. C. Claus" to another group of students).