News for Monday, January 15th, 2018

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had an article attributed to them dated for this Monday with a report of a member of their news operation (named Bob Grip) having announced a plan to retire from it (a Facebook page related to him had a message attributed to him dated for this Monday related to the idea of his retiring for the operation (note: neither one of them had any mention of his having been part of the news operation for another TV station in southwest Alabama (WKRG-TV) before becoming a member of the one for WALA-TV)).

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on the Saturday of the thirteenth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m." and "FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") appeared to have had their news presenter (Devan Coffaro) conducting interviews with a certain person (named Shirley Cunningham) concerning her life and a plan for a certain type of luncheon involving her (note: a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the channel on the Wednesday of the tenth day of this January ("Studio 10") had an interview with the same person related to the same plan). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the thirteenth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10")* appeared to have had had some video of an automobile with a logo for WALA-TV for one of its reports whereas one of its other videos appeared to had been rebroadcast while having audio of its sports reporter (Robby Baker) saying, "And I know we all ready saw it, but I feel like that the people of Mobile need to see it again" afterwards (it also had audio of his saying this immediately afterwards: "Sixty-six-year-old owner of the Philadelphia Eagles Jeff Lurie, this is the best thing of the night, the moves, it's all in the hips, Ashley**. This is how you celebrate a playoff win").  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the thirteenth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had its weather reporter (Matt Barrentine) saying, "So tomorrow morning, sleep in, drink your coffee, let this stuff warm up before you head outside" after presenting a report of a "brisk breeze"; saying, "Make sure if you have to be outside that you are dressed in the warmest stuff you've got early tomorrow morning; if not, just sleep in, enjoy your coffee and -- it's Sunday morning -- just enjoy a cozy Sunday morning around the house" after presenting a prediction of certain temperatures, wind, and "wind chill" for the aforementioned Sunday; and saying, "So when you wake up tomorrow morning; like I said earlier hopefully you'd on Sunday you could just sleep on in. I'll be here tomorrow morning six to seven o'clock so you could check in with me and I'll give you what the exact temperature is and I expect them to be in the twenties. Pretty much widespread" immediately after saying, "Clear skies, north winds -- those north winds are going to be bringing down that cold air from up north; and look at Nashville right now, sitting at eighteen degrees, so obviously some very cold air just to our north that's going to help dip our temperatures tonight". 

(*the channel was not usually set to have it over that period of time before then (it had special programming (from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)***) related to the sport of football over the period of time in which it was usually set to have the news program on a daily basis before then (the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m.))  
(**the forename of the news presenter for the program (Ashley Knight))
(***the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV)

News for Sunday, January 14th, 2018

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV was set to have a movie named "A Knight's Tale" thirty minutes after a programming feed for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named BBC America was set to have the same movie on the Sunday of the fourteenth day of this January.  

• 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 Sunday ("NBC 15 News at 5") had its news presenter (Andrea Ramey) presenting a report of an automobile hitting the top half of a certain building (a "two-story" building) with various inflections in her voice and her saying, "You'd think?" between some of its details. 

• 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 audio of its news presenter (Chad Petri) saying, "Coming up in sports, the NFL playoffs underway and there were a couple of good games on last night; Did you see it. Did ya. If not, we've got a recap. Time now is 6:41 on this Sunday morning" immediately before one of its breaks from appearing on the channel during that period of time that day. 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV occasionally had a video concerning a certain project involving them and a certain company specialized in providing electricity in their local broadcast area (named Baldwin EMC) between some of the local news programming it had earlier this January (note: a certain installment of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles dated for the Thursday of the seventh day of September for the previous calendar year appeared to have had a discussion of this project (the name of the program was "Studio 10")). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a local news program (named "WKRG News 5 at 5") during the last fifteen minutes of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Sunday after having special programming related to the sport of basketball from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) both when it was usually set to have such a program during that hour from Sunday through Friday in recent times (the first half of it) and when it was usually set to have a national news program from the same provider on Saturday and Sunday in recent times ("The CBS Weekend News").

News for Saturday, January 13th, 2018

(note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Friday, January 12th, 2018") was amended)

• A Facebook page attributed to a company connected to a certain service for accessing video streams of certain news programs for certain TV stations had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Friday of the twelfth day of this January related to the local news operation at WALA-TV (the name of the service was NewsOn). 

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to had been part of a session of question and answers involving live video on the Friday of the twelfth day of this January (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. that day ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had audio of one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) presenting a report of her having been part of this session). 

• The 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. on the Friday of the twelfth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") appeared to have videos of various reporters with references to various TV stations related to WKRG-TV by ownership (WDHN-TV in the city of Webb in the state of Alabama; WZDX-TV in the city of Huntsville in the state of Alabama; WMBB-TV in the city of Panama City in the state of Florida with reports related to a certain ailment ("flu").*

• 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 Thursday of the eleventh day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Randy Patrick Setterstrom) saying, "Well, Mel**, if you wear a backpack, be careful what you put in it and where you leave it. Alabama defensive line coach Karl Dunbar had his backpack stolen Saturday at the Crimson Tide's team hotel in downtown Atlanta. He left his backpack in a room in a Marriott Marquee Saturday afternoon that he thought was secure. Turns out it wasn't; a thief took it, and listen to what was in it: cash, cell phones, a passport, and Alabama's game day game plan. Atlanta Police are now investigating and they are looking for this guy who was wearing Coach Dunbar's backpack. Some of the contents were later discovered in a hotel bathroom; so far no luck finding the thief. Alabama had a lousy first half against Georgia, but turned it around in the second half and stunned the dogs to win in overtime and score the school's seventeenth national championship. Now Coach Dunbar has been on Nick Saban's staff for two years. He's coached in the NFL for eleven seasons. Atlanta police might want to put Coach Dunbar on the case; he once served as a police officer in his home state of Louisiana in the mid nineties". 

(*WKRG-TV and the other stations were members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group as part of the aforementioned ownership)

(**this was the forename of one of the news presenters for the program (Mel Showers))

(***a World Wide Web site and a Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV each appeared to have had messages related to what the reporter was saying dated for that Thursday) 

News for Friday, January 12th, 2018 (amended)

(note: the fourth paragraph below this sentence was amended (the letter "a" was added between the words "had" and "live" and an asterisk and a parenthesis were added to near the end of it with) and a sentence with an asterisk was added below that paragraph) 

• 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 tenth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "A plus for one you tonight" before presenting a certain report for a part of it dedicated to news related to digital technology ("Daily Dot Com").  

• 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 Thursday of the eleventh day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Randy Patrick Setterstrom) saying this one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) "All right, Alabama's national championship parade set for Saturday at 2:00 in Tuscaloosa. It will start in front of Denny Chimes and it will work its way in front of your house in front of Mobile. No, actually, it's front of the walk of champions. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the eleventh day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 10") appeared to have had one of theirs news presenters (Lenise Ligon) introducing videos of certain reports without mentioning their narrators or whether they were for their own news operation or not (the first program appeared to have had her saying, "Here's more from that area" before one of the videos whereas the second program appeared to have had her saying, "Here's more from Atlanta" before the other video).  

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had a live video of one of the news presenters for one of the local news programs at WKRG-TV (Bill Riales of "WKRG News 5 This Morning") saying this regarding a national news program from the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV ("CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) while part of the production of the local one this Friday: "When we're coming back on Monday, we'll have a whole different look toward the end of the show because we'll be bumping right up against 'CBS This Morning' " (the video also appeared to have had the other news presenter for the aforementioned news program for WKRG-TV (Jessica Taloney) saying this regarding the aforementioned statement immediately after it was said: "What that means for you is you're going to get--you're going to get more traffic, weather, and news in the last ten minutes of the show without a commercial break; and that's not ever been done before in south Alabama" (the news presenter named Bill Riales appeared to had made this statement immediately after the aforementioned statement the one named Jessica Taloney appeared to had said: "We would have unveiled that today had we known about it")).*

(*the statements were presented during the last ten minutes of the video)

News for Thursday, January 11th, 2018

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV appeared to have had a video related to their news operation with audio of an announcement congratulating a certain entity for a certain championship and a statement claiming the operation was the only local station to have had live "coverage" of activities related to it.

• One of the standard-definition cable TV channels in the cable TV system operated operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile usually had the main programming feed for the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV appear more vertical than that of its regular format by the Wednesday of the tenth day of this January in recent times before appearing having it appear in a cropped format by then.

• The 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. on the Wednesday of the tenth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") appeared to have had some reporters (identified as "Chip Osowski" and "Ashley Liotus" by some captions of it on an Internet video stream) without any mention of whether they were members of the news operation at WKRG-TV or members of either another entity or two different entities.   

• The local news program for the broadcast channel of the station mentioned in the paragraph above this one had one its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying, "Kickoff for the Saints and Vikings is set for 3:40 Sunday afternoon and before the big game be sure to watch the Saints pre-game special on the Gulf Coast CW (a nickname for the main programming feed for WFNA-TV*). It airs at 1:30 Saturday afternoon" after having a video of a report by one of the reporters mentioned in that paragraph (the second one mentioned in it) concerning two groups of football players named the Saints and Vikings. 

• 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. on the Wednesday of the tenth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had audio one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "A mother loses everything but the clothes on her back in a devastating house fire. FOX 10 News is learning it's just one of thirty house fires this year where a space heater may be to blame" immediately before one of its breaks from appearing on the channel during that period of time before having his appearing to say, "A Mobile family lost everything they owned when a fuse box caught fire and destroyed a home on Glen Acres Drive" before not having him or any other person stating whether it related to what he was saying immediately before that break (note: it also had audio of his saying, "Since December 1st, Mobile Fire-Rescue have responded to more than thirty house fires. Many stemmed from space heaters and people leaving things on the stove unattended" afterwards).** 

(*WFNA-TV had the same ownership as the station for the broadcast channel that had the news program (they were members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group as part of that ownership)
(**a World Wide Web site connected to WALA-TV had a video and an article with details similar the reports presented by the news presenter). 

News for Wednesday, January 10th, 2018

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Monday of the eighth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a video of a report concerning the news operation at WALA-TV and leaders of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama.  

• A Facebook page attributed to a news reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV named Devan Coffaro had a message attributed to her dated for the Tuesday of the ninth day of this January concerning a certain "franchise" for some of the local news programming it had in recent times (note: the page had a video related to the "franchise" beside the message (its player might start playing it if you were to access the part of the page with it and the message).

• 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 Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had its news presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) presenting reports of a World Wide Web site connected to them ("WKRG dot com") having "a new look" and that it was rebuilt "from the ground up" and "optimized for mobile*" (one of them had also said this afterwards: "more updates are on the way including a Mardi Gras page in the coming weeks"). 

• The main broadcast channels for WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were usually set to have different types of programs during the hours when they were usually set to have a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Gulf Coast Today" during the second halves of the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. respectively) from between the Monday of the twenty-fifth day of December for the previous calendar year (2017) and the Friday of the fifth day of this January (the channel for WPMI-TV had programs from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) such as one one concerning a certain game of hockey and one concerning various lifestyles under the name "1st Look" along with some paid commercial programs ("infomercials") and extra segments for one of the local news programs it was usually set to have during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("NBC 15 News at Noon") whereas the channel for WJTC-TV had syndicated programs under names such as "The Simpsons" and "Judge Judy")

(*it was pronounced differently from the way it was usually pronounced in reference to the city in southwest Alabama in previous installments of the program and other local news programs for the channel in recent times (it was pronounced "mo-bul" rather than "mo-beel"))

News for Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

• A certain Internet video stream appeared to have had the last part of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the eighth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." ) immediately after having the part that preceded it (note: the parts were separated by a black image that lasted no more than one second).

• 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 Monday of the eighth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a news report with a narrator saying, "And before she goes, the first female superintendent of the school district has some advice for her successor, whoever that may be" and, "and roll tide roll" afterwards. 

• 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 Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Bill Riales) saying, "I got a quick correction for you: we will not be airing Governor Kay--Kay Ivey's state of the state address. That is on Alabama Public Television. They will be streaming that and broadcasting that live tonight at 6:30" after appearing to had said, "Governor Kay Ivey will deliver her first state of the state address. You can watch it here on--eh, right here on News 5 at 6:30" (note: the local news program mentioned in the paragraph above this one had one of its own news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying, "Tomorrow Governor Kay Ivey will deliver her first state of the state address. You can catch it on PBS at 6:30" while having a graphic with the following texts: "STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS", "Tomorrow", "PBS", and "6:30PM").*   

• 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. on the Monday of the eighth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Devon Walsh) saying, "Well still to come: a national day many of us actually need. We'll show you how cleaning is now a nationally-celebrated day when we come back" before one of its breaks from appearing on the channel in that period of time that day before having audio of her saying, "All right, does your desk at home or work look like this? Oh my gosh, it's time to clean it up" before having its weather reporter (John Nodar) saying, "You know, mine used to; now I have to share a desk because it's a little clear. Anyway, it's National Clean Off Your Desk Day" immediately afterwards before  having her saying, "I'm just glad they didn't use video of my desk for this day", the weather reporter saying, "I've seen your desk" immediately afterwards, and her saying, " It's pretty bad" immediately afterwards.  

(*the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WEIQ-TV (the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama) each appeared to have had video of a speech by the aforementioned Kay Ivey during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. (the video on the channel for WKRG-TV was part of a local news program named "WKRG News 5 at 6:30 p.m." whereas the video on the channel for WEIQ-TV was part of a special installment of a news program for Alabama Public Television named "Capitol Journal")