News for Friday, October 13th, 2017

(note: a hyperlink (or link) to a section of a World Wide Web site with information pertaining to how some of the radio stations broadcasting locally to southwest Alabama were rated there within the past year (Radio-Online) was added to the list of hyperlinks on the right side of this site)

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the twelfth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") video of the holder of the position of president of the United States and the words "breaking away" while having audio of its news presenter (Bob Grip) summarizing news reports unrelated to the video.

• A digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation for WFNA-TV sometime between the morning hours of this Friday and the morning hours of the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October (its programming feed appeared similar to that of the digital sub-channel for WJTC-TV by the time of this writing (both of them appeared to have programming from a national TV programming service named Grit*)). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a local news program immediately after having special news programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) while it was still in progress during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Friday (the channel was usually set to have a local news program during this time period from Monday through Friday in recent times (usually under the name "WKRG News 5 at Noon")).**

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV had an article dated for this Friday concerning one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) and one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Devan Coffaro) getting engaged to each other (the local news program for WKRG-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph had its news presenter (Bill Riales) saying that he had wanted to congratulate the reporter named Joseph Blake Biunno on the engagement before explaining it whereas the reporter was sitting next to him (note: the news presenter had referred to WALA-TV as "the FOX affiliate here in Mobile" while telling its audience they may recognize the reporter named Devan Coffaro as a reporter for such an affiliate).***

(*the channel for WJTC-TV usually appeared to have programming from the service before the addition of the channel for WFNA-TV)

(**the news presenter for the program (Bill Riales) had referred to it as an "abbreviated" version of it)

(***A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had messages attributed to the administration of a Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV related to the article)

News for Thursday, October 12th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video of a discussion about the sport of football between a sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) and a person specialized in analyzing the sport of football for their main provider of network programming (Aaron Taylor of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October. 

• A digital publication (specifically its forty-first page) dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October for a company specialized in publishing based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named Lagniappe had an advertisement about the programming feed for WZEW-FM possibly having eight hours of "coverage" of a plan to hold a certain type of football game involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and the University of Arkansas on the Saturday of the fourteenth day of this October.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eleventh day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) and one of its news reporters (Alexa Knowles) discussing a video of a certain person expressing love for their broadcast operation along with part of what appeared to be the video itself before having a separate video of his appearing to do a weather report and another expression of love for their broadcast operation.*

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the fifth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Joe Emer**) attributing a news report to a certain person ("Omar Jimenez") without saying whether the person was part of their local news operation or not before having video of the report itself (the person to whom he was referring had ended the report as if he were a member of the operation ("In Las Vegas, I'm Omar Jimenez reporting for FOX 10 News")).  

(*the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 10:00 p.m. afterwards ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had the same news presenters presenting reports about the videos along with portions of them))

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program by then)

News for Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a video attributed to its administration with some audio of an announcer thanking certain entities on behalf of WKRG-TV and other entities within a certain area beside a message related to it dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its weather reporter (Thomas Geboy) making this proclamation concerning the calendar date for this Wednesday: "Well, it's October 11th and it does not feel like October 11th".

• Some video of a news report concerning the holding company for WEAR-TV, WPMI-TV, WFGX-TV, and WJTC-TV (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) for a national TV program named "The PBS NewsHour" had certain references to WEAR-TV and WPMI-TV (its narrator had said "WEAR" whereas part of it had some members of the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Kelly Foster and Darwin Singleton) on what appeared to be the set normally used for some of their local news programs in recent times).

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. on the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October ("Studio 10") had its hosts (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) introducing video of some of the news presenters for their local news operation (Eric Reynolds and Sarah Wall) presenting video of a news reporter for the operation (Steve Alexander Ozenovich) doing a report related to a news conference concerning reports of certain persons drowning in their local broadcast area along with his particpating in the news conference itself before having video of the news presenters discussing his report (the one named Eric Reynolds appeared to express sympathy ("prayers and condolences") to one of the persons said to had drowned) before taking a break for the program (note: the rest of the program was based on its regular format (with its regular hosts)).

News for Tuesday, October 10th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Bob Grip) taking about having "shot" video from the "first commercial flight to land in Mobile" earlier that Sunday (it also had him talking about some of the video being on a Facebook page named after him).*

• 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 Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a sports reporter for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) acknowledging a relative of his (a nephew named Steven Setterstrom) for one of its sports related to sport (note: this weblog had reports about the reporter not acknowledging his connection to the relative in some other reports related to him in some of the local news programming WKRG-TV had before then. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV a few seconds after the sports programming it had from their main provider of network programming during the evening hours of the Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("Sunday Night Football" from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) had one of its news presenters (Greg Peterson) referring to one of the news reporters for their news operation as if she were member of that provider (he had referred to her as "NBC's Megan Gannon" while doing so) while attributing some video of a news report to her before having the video itself.

• 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. on the Sunday of the eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) referring to a local TV station in the city of Biloxi in the state of Mississippi unrelated to them by ownership (WLOX-TV) as a "sister station" while attributing some video of a news report attributed to them before having the video itself, even though some of the local news programming they had before then usually had other news presenters for their news operation using that phrase in reference to TV stations that were actually related to them by ownership (note: WLOX-TV was part of a holding company named Raycom Media whereas WKRG-TV was part of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group).   

 (*A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of his talking about it earlier that Sunday)

News for Monday, October 9th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV occasionally had a video with the voice of an announcer claiming one of the local news programs for the local news operation at WPMI-TV ("Local 15 News at 10 [p.m.]"*) was considered the "best newscast at 10:00 p.m." in the state of Alabama by the Alabama Broadcasters Association while an award attributed to the association with some words about it being considered the best "regularly scheduled [TV] newscast" in an awards program for the association appeared. 

• One of the programming feeds on one of the digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV appeared to had been reformatted between the Wednesday of the fourth day of this October and the Saturday of the seventh day of this October; specifically the one that usually had programs from a national TV programming service named Memorable Entertainment Television (and nicknamed Me-TV) in recent times (it had videos with an aspect ratio of 4 to 3 appear either thinner from left to right or without portions of their top and bottom sides).

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV appeared to have video of a game of football from a national TV programming service named the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) before having video of another game of football from a separate national TV programming service named Stadium this past Saturday on the seventh day of this October (one of the digital sub-channel for WPMI-TV** had video of the same game at the same time since it was usually set to have programs from Stadium by then in recent times along with digital graphics that did not appear with the video on the channel for WFGX-TV)

• 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") had some of the news presenters for their news operation (Mel Showers, Rose Ann Haven, and Devon Walsh) boasting the operation as part of its broadcasts for that time period this Monday and the Sunday of the eighth day of this October (this is how the one named Devon Walsh did so in its broadcast for that time period this Monday: "Well News 5 is committed to bringing you coverage you can count during all major weather and breaking news situations. During our extended team coverage of 'Hurricane Nate', we were the first to alert you about live tornadoes and we're live all across the gulf coast as flooding started to happen. You can see even more of our 'Nate' coverage on our website, wkrg.com, as well as on our free mobile news app" (this is how the ones named Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven did so in broadcasts during the same time period on the aforementioned Sunday: Mel Showers: "Well News 5 had you covered for over sixteen (16) hours straight online and on air as the gulf coast braced for 'Hurricane Nate' ". Rose Ann Haven: "That's right, we began our continuous coverage just after the Florida versus LSU game (the one that appeared on their main broadcast channel on the Saturday) where more than a hundred and twenty-one thousand (121,000) of you tuned in to watch us live on Facebook. Many of you watched us on air or shared our Facebook Live coverage more than six-hundred and seventy seven (677) times. We were the only station to stick with the storm until the threat was completely cleared. We appreciate your viewership and we are glad you turned to News 5. We are coverage you can count on, even after the storm".))  

(*the program was renamed "NBC 15 News at 10 [p.m.]" last September)

(**WPMI-TV and WFGX-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

News for Sunday, October 8th, 2017

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV had an article dated for this Sunday about a flood trapping a news reporter for their local news operation (Muriel Bailey). 

• The sports reporters for the local news operations at WKRG-TV (Robby Baker and Randy Patrick Setterstrom), WPMI-TV (Lance Crawford), and WALA-TV (Bri MacNaught) did some reports pertaining to a tropical cyclone named "Nate" between this Sunday and the Saturday of the seventh day of this October.

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a local news program at a time when it was usually set to have a national news program from their main provider of network programming ("Sunday Today" from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Sunday mornings in recent times (the hour of 7:00 a.m.) this Sunday.

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV* and the broadcast frequencies for WAVH-FM and WXQW-AM each had the same programming as the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during some of the morning hours for this Sunday (it was usually programming pertaining to the tropical cyclone mentioned in the second paragraph from the top of this report (A Facebook page attributed to WAVH-FM had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Saturday of the seventh day of this October about the idea of WAVH-FM having such programming whereas a Twitter page attributed to them had a message dated for this Sunday about their continuing to have such programming). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. this Sunday had certain members of their news operations (the news presenter or news presenters each of them had (Kym Thurman and Greg Peterson on the one for WPMI-TV; Bob Grip** on the one for WALA-TV; Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven*** on the one for WKRG-TV) and the weather reporter for the one that appeared on the channel for WKRG-TV (Alan Sealls)) who were usually only part of some of the local news programmings they had for Monday through Friday in the same positions they had for those programs in recent times.****

(*WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

(**A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of his saying they would have a "special edition" of the program that appeared on their main broadcast channel before the time it did (the hour of 9:00 p.m.) earlier this Sunday)

(***she had referred to the program as a "special edition" after introducing her self on it)

(****the member of the news operation at WALA-TV who was usually the news presenter for the local news programming they had on their main broadcast channel on Sunday evenings in recent times (Lee Peck) was one the reporters for the local news programming it had this Sunday evening)  

News for Saturday, October 7th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Saturday had its news presenters (Andrea Ramey and Darwin Singleton) talking about the program being part of the programming of a radio station in their local broadcast area named WNTM-AM. 

• The main broadcast channels for WEAR-TV appeared to have video of some special sports programming (including a game of football) from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) within a box beside a separate box with graphics related to weather with audio of a weather reporter for their local news operation for some of the special weather programming it had this Saturday.

• The broadcast frequency for WXQW-AM had audio of certain announcers (including one identified as Jimmy Steele and one identified as a weather reporter for WKRG-TV named  John Nodar) presenting information related to a tropical cyclone named "Nate" on a continuous basis along with breaks for advertisements this Saturday (note: they were usually set to have the same programming as WGOK-AM on Saturday and Sunday whereas they were usually set to have their own programming from Monday through Friday in recent times).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a local news program when it was usually set to have a national news program from their main provider of network programming ("Today" from the the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Saturday mornings in recent times (the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.*) this Saturday (a Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have had some messages attributed to its administration dated for this Saturday about a plan for the channel to have such news programming before the time it had it).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had local news programming when it was usually set to have programming from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) on Saturday mornings in recent times this Saturday (specifically the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. for this Saturday (a Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have had some messages attributed to its administration dated for this Saturday about a plan for the channel to have such news programming before those hours)).

• Some Facebook pages attributed to WKRG-TV and WALA-TV each appeared to have had video of some special sports programming (including a game of football) from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for WKRG-TV and the FOX Broadcasting Company for WALA-TV) within a box beside a separate box with graphics related to weather and a weather reporter for their local news operation (Alan Sealls for WKRG-TV and Jason Smith for WALA-TV) with audio of the reporter presenting information related to them. 

(*the channel was occasionally set to have a separate program from the provider in place of the one named "Today" during the second half of the hour of 8:00 a.m. on Saturday (usually that of a block of programming for the provider named "The More You Know"))