News for Friday, January 6th, 2017

• The guides to the cable TV channel for the programming feed of the Alabama Public Television station licensed to the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama that used to have the live programming feed of a national TV programming service named WORLD on a regular basis prior to this calendar week in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile still had listings for its programs (the name of the station was WEIQ-TV).

• Some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV had used some of their local news programming for this Friday to promote a new dramatic TV program from their main provider of network programming that was expected to appear on their main broadcast channel on this Friday after their promotions for it (the name of the program was "Emerald City"; it for the name of its provider, it was the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)).*

• Some of the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV since this past Thursday on the fifth day of this January had what appeared to had been live news reports** from the city of Tampa in the state of Florida involving members of their respective local news operations (one of the reports for the one at WKRG-TV even involved a former news reporter and news presenter for theirs (Avery Cotton of WFLA-TV in Tampa***)).

(*at least one of the news presenters (Kelly Foster) said what may or may not had been her own personal comments about the program, such as the idea that it was "not for kids" and the idea that it was tampering upon a theatrical movie she was said was a "classic" (the theatrical movie originally released in the year 1939 named "The Wizard of Oz") as if it were based solely on the movie (both of them were based elements of a stories of stories written by a person named Lyman Frank (L. Frank) Baum (she did not mention those stories or explain what she meant by the idea the new TV program was "not for kids"))

 (**the reports were mainly about a plan to hold a football game involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Clemson University in Tampa next Monday on the ninth day of this January) 

(***both WKRG-TV and WFLA-TV were members of the same holding (or "parent") company (Media General))

News for Thursday, January 5th, 2017

• The member of the local news operation at WPMI-TV who was usually the weather reporter for their local news programs for Saturday and Sunday evenings in recent times (Jake Dunne) was the weather reporter for their morning and midday news programs for Monday through Friday ("Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon") since this past Wednesday on the fourth day of this January while the one who was usually their weather reporter before then (Kelly Foster) was their news presenter instead.

• The local news program that appeared on their main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Wednesday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had an abrupt break in its broadcast after one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) used one of its segments to tell its audience the battery in the microphone for its weather reporter (Jason Smith) had died and that they "would be right back [after the break]" (he also said the reason for the death was due to the weather reporter talking into the microphone so much). 

News for Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

• Some of the news presenters for the local new operation at WKRG-TV had used some of their local news programming since this past Tuesday on the third day of this January to present news of WAVH-FM having a sale of bracelets to help provide financial support to a policeman for the city of Saraland in southwest Alabama said to had been recovering from an injury on her job last December. 

• A series of videos (five videos in total) about the city of Paris in the nation of France narrated by a member of the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) dating back to the calendar year 1997 were uploaded onto a Facebook page and a YouTube channel attributed to him (note: as of this writing, the fourth part of the series is not on the Facebook page (the hyperlink "Facebook" would only take you to a still image and description of the fifth part of the series whereas the hyperlinks between the words "were" and "and" would take you to the other parts)).

• The "new, permanent co-anchor" (or partner in news presentations) for the "anchor" who usually presented news reports alone for the local news program at WPMI-TV mentioned in an earlier report for this weblog ("News for Monday, January 2nd, 2017") was also the "anchor" of the editions of the local news program that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel during the hour of 12:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Local 15 News at Noon"*) since this past Tuesday (her partner for the local news program mentioned in the earlier report (Darwin Singleton) was usually the only news presenter for that program and the one for the hour of 12:00 p.m. in recent times). 

(*it was not listed in the guides to the programming of the channel for this past Monday provided by Zap2it)

News for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

• The local entertainment and lifestyle program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Tuesday ("Studio 10") had video of one of its hosts (Chasity Byrd) being honored on her birthday this past Monday on the second day of this January. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WALA-TV between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. as part of their regular broadcast time periods for Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 This Morning", "Local 15 Today", and "FOX 10 News in the Morning" respectively) each had what appeared to be video of a member of their respective news operation interviewing a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the state Alabama (specifically southwest Alabama) named Bradley Byrne. 

• A message about a new national TV programming feed coming to Alabama Public Television on the Monday of the sixteenth day of this January (under the name PBS Kids) took the place of the one (named WORLD) that usually appeared on one of the digital sub-channels for the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama sometime between this past Monday (on the second day of this January) and this Tuesday (the name of the station was WEIQ-TV; the digital sub-channels that usually had the WORLD feed were 41-2/42-2 (radio frequency channel number and virtual channel number respectively) and 41-4/41-4; as for the one had the message in that place of that feed, it was 41-2/42-2.

News for Monday, January 2nd, 2017

• The last segment of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 10:00") appeared on the channel for less than one second (while its news presenter (Rose Ann Haven) was speaking) before being replaced by a commercial advertisement as part of its programming. 

• The main broadcast channel WPMI-TV had special local weather programming take precedence over special network programming (including programming about a parade in the city of Pasadena in the state of California named "The Tournament of Roses Parade" and a professional hockey game named "The Winter Classic") from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) several times this Monday (some of the special weather programming included a box with video of some of the network programming about the hockey game). 

• The member of the local news operation at WPMI-TV who usually presented news for the local news program that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (Darwin Singleton of "Local 15 Today") used some of the segments that appeared on the channel this Monday to tell its audience that its regular weather reporter (Kelly Foster) was his "new, permanent co-anchor" (or partner) for its broadcasts (she was still its weather reporter).*  

(*she was his "co-anchor" for previous editions of it after the last person to do so (Kelly Jones) left the program last September).

News for Sunday, January 1st, 2017 (amended)

 (amendment note: more hyperlinks were added)

• The official Facebook page for WALA-TV was set to have a live video stream of a live celebration of the new calendar year (2017) in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama ("MoonPie Over Mobile") around the time the year was set to begin (the beginning of the hour of 12:00 a.m. this Sunday). 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV was set to begin having a recorded begin of a special network program from their main provider of network programming ("Pitbull's New Year's Revolution" from the FOX Broadcasting Company) one hour after the provider began providing it live this past Saturday on the thirty-first day of this December (the program was provided live from the beginning of the hour of 10:00 p.m. and the second half of the hour of 11:30 p.m.).   

• According to the guides to the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV from Zap2it and TitanTV, the channel was set to have two editions of two syndicated programs that were usually part of its regular programming plan for Monday through Friday in recent times (a comedic program named "The Big Bang Theory" for the hour of 3:00 p.m.; two editions of a syndicated gaming program named "Family Feud" for the hour the hour of 4:00 p.m.) during time periods in which they were not usually set to be part of its programming (this past Saturday on the thirty-first day of this past December between the second half of the hour of 12:00 a.m. and the second half of the hour of 2:00 a.m. in the order in which they were listed (specifically between thirty-seven minutes after 12:00 a.m. and thirty-seven minutes after 2:00 a.m (the channel was usually set to have paid commercial programs during this time period on Saturday in recent times)).

News for Saturday, December 31st, 2016

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a local news segment at the time when it usually had the beginning of a programming block from their main provider of network programming on Saturday mornings in recent times this Saturday before having a commercial advertisement that was interrupted by the programming block all ready in progress (the name of the programming block was "CBS Dream Team"; the name of the provider was the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS); as for the beginning of the programming block, it was at the beginning of the hour of 8:00 a.m.).

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV was set to have a theatrical movie not from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) in a time period not normally used for such movies of any source in its programming plans in recent times this Saturday (the name of the movie was "Lake City" (originally released in the year 2008); as for the time period in which the movie was set to be part of its programming this Saturday, it was between the beginning of the second half of the hour of 1:00 p.m. and the beginning of the second half of the hour of 3:00 p.m.). 

• The Cable News Network (CNN) had a report about a person who appeared to admire one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith) in a video used for news reports about him for WALA-TV earlier this calendar week (the report from CNN was part of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 4:00 p.m. this past Friday on the thirtieth day of this December ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") and the one that appeared on the channel during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News in the Morning" ("weekend" version)) (the news presenters for the program (Lenise Ligon for the one for this past Friday; Alexa Knowles for the one for this Saturday) both said the person for which the report from CNN about was "making his international debut in the Jason Smith costume he got for Christmas")).