News for Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

• Some Facebook pages attributed to WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV appeared to have had some live videos of some special TV programs of theirs related to certain celebrations in their local broadcast areas on the Tuesday of the thirteenth day of this February.*

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had an article related to them dated for the Tuesday of the thirteenth day of this February named "Mobile Mardi Gras: WKRG spreads the word across the nation" (a Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had a message related to the article attributed to its administration dated for the same Tuesday). 

• A Facebook page attributed to a promoter for WFNA-TV named Victoria (Tori) Blackmon appeared to have had some live videos of her and members of the news operation for WKRG-TV between certain celebrations in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama this Tuesday (the videos appeared to had been uploaded onto some Facebook pages related to WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV after when they appeared to had been live).**

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had audio of one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying his own name while presenting a report involving his self and its other news presenter (Rose Ann Haven) near the end of it last segment ("Coming up tonight on CBS, 'NCIS' gets things going at seven o'clock, followed by 'Bull' at eight o'clock, then at nine o'clock it's 'NCIS: New Orleans', then join Rose Ann Haven and Mel Showers for 'News 5' at ten o'clock")

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the thirteenth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had graphics with texts of "BEAUTIFUL SUNSET" and "GULF SHORES" over some of its video and two of its news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) in a location not normally used by them in previous installments of it in recent times (a remote location) while having a news presenter who was usually only one of its reporters in previous installments of it in recent times (Shelby Myers) from a location normally used by news presenters for previous installments of one of their other news programs in recent times ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.").

(*one of the programs for WPMI-TV actually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV***)
 (**WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)
(***WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

News for Monday, February 12th, 2018

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had an message attributed to its administration dated for this Monday beside a video involving texts of: "WKRG SCHEDULE FOR FAT TUESDAY" (note: a World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had a static version of the video with a message related to it dated for this Monday). 

• 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 Friday of the ninth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had one of its reporters (a news reporter named Bryant Clerkley) being kissed by a certain person as he was doing a report from a remote location.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. this Monday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its reporters (a news reporter named Shelby Myers) holding a certain object for a report that had her comparing it to a certain other object (a "carpenter's level" (note: the object she appeared to had been holding had text of "WALA-TV").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Friday of the ninth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 5") appeared to have had a certain video involving a certain person (named Drexel Gilbert) who used to be part of their programming on a regular basis in years past (note #1: she was usually one of their news presenters for it during those years (note: #2 both she and the person who appeared to had introduced the video with her (a news presenter named Peter Albrecht) used to be news presenters for WPMI-TV on a regular basis after those years).

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV appeared to have had videos involving digital texts of "America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience" over a certain setting and a digital rectangle with texts of "Briskman & Binion, P. C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW" over the same setting with audio of an announcer saying, "This Black History Month moment is sponsored by Briskman & Binion, Attorneys at Law" immediately after having certain parts of the local news programs it during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Monday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.", "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.", and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." respectively) this Monday.*

• 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 Friday of the ninth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had a video with audio of a certain video involving shouts of, "FOX 10! FOX 10! Adam Olivier! FOX 10 rules!" along with audio of one of the news presenters for the program (Lenise Ligon) laughing and saying, "All right, Fairhope's turn to hold the Mardi Gras** parade a lot of fun out there as you can hear. The Order of Mystic Magnolias rolling through the streets tonight, of course Adam Olivier making an appearance in the FOX 10 Storm Tracker" immediately after them before having video of its other news presenter (Bob Grip) saying, "He had a big fan there; you can hear him" immediately afterwards.  

(*the channel had audio of a report involving the phrases "black history month" and "African American" for the third news program mentioned immediately before having one of the videos (this is what the presenter of the report (Lenise Ligon) was saying for the part of it that involved those phrases: "And another big honor for the Obamas as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official paintings of the two; an historic moment during Black History Month; the artists are the first African-American painters selected for the honor and they put their own unique twists on the pieces, too.")

(**the words "Mardi" and "Gras" had often appeared to have had been used as French words for  "Tuesday" and "Fat" in the order in which they were presented here). ) 

News for Sunday, February 11th, 2018

• 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 eighth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "Turning now to your forecast: I hope you enjoyed today's weather because it was the last rain-free day we will see in a while" and its other news presenter (Rose Ann Haven) saying, "Uh oh. Chief meteorologist Alan Sealls joins us now to tell us much rain we're expecting in the coming days. Alan" immediately afterwards before having her saying, "The timeless battle of who has the best Mardi Gras*; Mobile and New Orleans came head to head in downtown this evening. News 5's J.B. (Joseph Blake) Biunno and Duke Carter from our sister station WWL** in New Orleans debated over which city has the best Mardi Gras* and they invited you to participate on Facebook: click on the love emoji for Mobile and the like emoji for New Orleans. Here's how you responded: no surprise here: Mobile wins by a landslide, six hundred and twenty votes for Mobile, two hundred and ten votes for that other city, Mobile wins by nearly three times as many votes. Eight hundred and thirty people participated. A big thank you for voting" (note: a Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had a video related to what the news presenter was saying regarding the aforementioned J. B. Biunno and Duke Carter).

• 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. on the Friday of the ninth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Bill Riales) saying, "Well the battle over who has the best Mardi Gras* began with billboards in Louisiana telling people how close they were to the original Mardi Gras*. New Orleans has fired back", its other news presenter (Jessica Taloney) saying, "Of course the city's mayor launching an attack on Twitter: one tweet telling Alabama to stick to football and leave Mardi Gras* to the professionals. The back and forth continued and this week our sister station in the big easy sent one of their reporters to see what the port city has to offer. You see, we've gotten under their skin, Bill", the first news presenter mentioned saying, "A little bit, yeah", the other news presenter saying, "They've come on over to check it out", the first news presenter mentioned saying, "Quite a jab there. News 5's Katarina Luketich joining us live with WWL's Duke Carter also in Mardi Gras Park this morning. Good morning, guys" in that order during the hour of 5:00 a.m. that day before having the other news presenter saying, "Well there's revelry and then there's rivalry (note: it had audio of the first news presenter mentioned saying, "Uh huh, that's right" after the mentioning of "rivalry") between Mobile and New Orleans that has really heated up this Mardi Gras* season", the first news presenter mentioned saying, "That right, that rivalry has reached a whole new level this year partly because we made it do that; it started with billboards - (laughter) - like these along I-10 in Louisiana telling people just how close they were to the original Mardi Gras", the other news presenter saying, "And New Orleans came right back, Mayor Mitch Landrieu firing off an attack on Twitter; in one tweet telling Alabama to stick to football and leave Mardi Gras to the professionals", the first news presenter mentioned saying, "Oh...well Mobile mayor Sandy Stimpson came right back holding a news conference to officially grant New Orleans permission to let the good times roll in the port city there", and the other news presenter saying, "Well this week our sister station in the big easy sent one of their reporters to see what the port city has to offer. News 5's Katarina Luketich is joining us live with WWL's Duke Carter in Mardi Gras Park this morning" during the hour of 6:00 a.m. that day.  

(*the words "Mardi Gras" were French words for "Fat Tuesday")
(**WWL-TV and WKRG-TV were not related to each other by ownership (they were only related by their having the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) be their main provider of network programming)) 

News for Saturday, February 10th, 2018

(note: all times on this weblog reflect the Central time zone)

• A Facebook page attributed to WABF-AM appeared to have had a message attributed to its administration dated the Friday of the ninth day of this February concerning technical problems and the idea of their not broadcasting a certain type of parade that day.

• A recording of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that was usually set to appear on the main broadcast channels got WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV* from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Gulf Coast Today") appeared to had been uploaded onto a YouTube channel related to WPMI-TV on the Tuesday of the sixth day of this February (note: the channel for WPMI-TV was usually set to have this program during second half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. whereas the channel for WJTC-TV was usually set to have it during the second half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday). 

• 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 eighth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "FOX 10 News is committed to making sure you get the best Mardi Gras** experience; we will have live coverage during our morning newscasts and then from ten until two we're airing our four-hour Fat Tuesday special. FOX 10 will be coming to you live from the balcony of the Admiral Hotel in downtown Mobile; it's going to be a jam-packed show. We'll also have crews in Baldwin County covering all of the parades there. Mardi Gras** coverage is taking center stage on all of our newscasts".   

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV was set to have special programming related to a certain type of parade in their local broadcast area during some of the hours in which it was usually set to have programming from their main provider of network programming*** (the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.) on Saturday in recent times this Saturday (note #1: a World Wide Web site attributed to the provider appeared to have had a schedule of programming for that Saturday involving the hour of 2:00 p.m. (note #2: some guides to the channel on some World Wide Web sites named Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide each appeared to have had the name of the program listed in that schedule for the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. for the Sunday of the eleventh day of this February (note #3: the site attributed to the provider appeared to have had a schedule of programming for that Sunday in which the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. were not involved))). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel during the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the eighth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 6:00 p.m." and "WKRG News 5 at 6:30") and the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Friday of the ninth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 5:00 p.m.) each appeared to have had video of a certain member of their news operation (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) discussing a certain subject related to the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama and the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana with a member of the news operation for a TV station based in the one named New Orleans (Duke Carter of WWL-TV in the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana) from various locations (note #1: a Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video of the part of the first program mentioned involving the members discussing the subject at the same it was appearing on the channel on the aforementioned Thursday**** (note #2: the last news program mentioned appeared to have had a video of a certain report by the member of the news operation for the station based in the city named New Orleans related to what he and the member of the news operation for WKRG-TV appeared to be discussing). 

(*WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were related to each other due to their being part of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)
(**the words "Mardi Gras" were French words for "Fat Tuesday")
(***the American Broadcasting Company (ABC))
(****the Facebook page appeared to have had live video of the members discussing the subject earlier that was not part of the program earlier that Thursday) 

News for Friday, February 9th, 2018

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had video of a report of an accident involving a member of their news operation (Hal Scheurich)*.  

• A Facebook page attributed to WABF-AM appeared to have had some messages attributed to its administration dated for this Friday and this past Thursday (the eighth day of this February)  and Wednesday (the seventh day of this February) concerning a certain transmitter (or broadcast tower).   

• 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 seventh day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had a certain video (a "Surprise Squad" video) involving a certain person described by its narrator (a member of WALA-TV named Chasity Byrd) as her "eighth-grade teacher".

• 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 seventh day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had video of its weather reporter (Jason Smith) saying, "Here's your Baldwincast" in front of a map of the county of Baldwin in southwest Alabama and some graphics with text of "BALDWINCAST" and "IT'S GETTING COLDER" over some other video it had immediately before the video it had with the weather reporter appearing to say, "Here's your Baldwincast" (the other video appeared to involve the sky and some buildings).  .

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 6:00 a.m. on the Thursday of the eighth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 This Morning")** had one of its news presenters (Jessica Taloney) saying,  "All right, with the winter Olympics going on in South Korea, we're going to do something a little fun here on 'News 5 This Morning' to mark the games; over the next couple of weeks we're going to have your word of the day--your Korean word of the day" and its other news presenter (Bill Riales), saying, "Will we be able to say it? Who knows? Uh, our correspondent Lex Gray will be bringing us the Korean word of the day from Pyeongchang; take a look here" immediately afterwards before having a certain video involving a person with graphics of the words "Lex Gray" and an opening sequence involving graphics of the words "Sylvan Learning" and "Korean Word of the Day" immediately afterwards. 

(*update for Saturday, February 10th, 2018: some of the video appeared to had been part of their news programming for this Saturday (without its narration)). 
(**the program was usually set to appear on the channel during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. in addition to the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times)

News for Thursday, February 8th, 2018

• A Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV appeared to have had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Tuesday of the sixth day of this February concerning outages with an image of a logo for WPMI-TV.  

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV occasionally had videos of advertisements with announcements of "fewer interruptions" for a local news program that was usually part of its programming during the hour of 5:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.) since the month of January for this calendar year.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the sixth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a video of a report involving the words, "The LaShe's decided to postpone tonight's parade because of the rain. FOX 10 was first to spread the word" and audio of a certain person saying, "I found out from you--from, from this news channel. Thank you, FOX 10, for letting us know" immediately after having those words.  

• 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 Tuesday of the sixth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "And...at starman, this is the--what's left of...it's a uh--sports car with what looks like an astronaut inside, but it's a dummy and it's on its way into the solar system" and graphics with with text of "VIEWS FROM SPACE" and "SPACEX FALCON HEAVY STARMAN" over some of its video between having one of its breaks from appearing the channel in that period of time that day and having audio of its other news presenter (Lenise Ligon) presenting a report regarding a subject unrelated to what the first news presenter mentioned was saying with video that was also unrelated to what that news presenter was saying (it also had audio of the first news presenter saying, "And the chance of no rain in outer space; there you see star man behind the wheel; it's a look at the Earth on again; have a good night, everybody" during the last few second of its last segment).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the sixth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "It's a story that's sure make you smile; that stolen American flag raised in honor of a fallen American soldier is back where it belongs tonight and it's thanks to a viewer who saw that story on 'FOX 10 News' last night", its other news presenter (Bob Grip) saying, "Our Lee Peck joins us at the Sky Ranch neighborhood where the flag is flying high tonight. Lee, your story paid off big time", immediately afterwards, and one of its reporters saying, "Well it certainly did, Bob and Lenise. If you would have asked the family last night, they would have told you the flag was good as gone; we were even making arrangements to replace it, but today tears turning into smiles as their loved one's flag is once again flying high" immediately afterwards whereas the program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. that day ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had the second news presenter mentioned saying, "Well it's a story that's sure to make you smile. That stolen American flag raised in honor of a fallen American soldier is back where it belongs and it's all thanks to a viewer who saw this story on FOX 10 News last night", the first news presenter mentioned saying, "And our Lee Peck is joining us live at the Sky Ranch neighborhood where the flag is flying high tonight. Lee, I guess you could say your story paid off big time" immediately afterwards, and the same news reporter mentioned earlier saying, " It certainly did, Bob and Lenise. If you would have asked this family last night, they would have said the flag is good as gone; they even had plans to replace it, but today tears turning to smiles and joy as their loved one's flag is once again flying high" immediately afterwards. 

News for Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

• 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 Monday of the fifth day of this January ("Studio 10") appeared to have had videos related to cooking involving various references to a company related to WALA-TV (the Meredith Corporation). 

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the second half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. on the Monday of the fifth day of this February ("Gulf Coast Today") appeared to have had its hosts (Kelly Foster and Terra Reeves) discussing discussing a certain video for a law firm based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (Maloney-Frost-Lyons, LLC) and a lawyer associated with it (David Maloney). 

• 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 fifth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "We almost never have a Hi-Q match on a Monday; but then again we almost never have snow days either; that was the reason for today's contest at Murphy High School. The panthers hosted the competition in the beautiful Murphy High School auditorium and it turned out to be a really good contest" and one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Bri MacNaught) saying, "We're wishing a very happy birthday to baseball great hammering Hank Aaron" while having graphics with texts of "BASEBALL LEGEND TURNS 84" and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANK AARON!".

• 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 Monday of the fifth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) presenting a report in which certain "neighbors" were described as having called "called nine eleven" whereas some captions for the program on an Internet video stream for the program had text in which certain "NEIGHBORS" were described as having "CALLED 9-1-1" for one of its reports ("Now investigators say they don't know the cause of the fire, but it was contained inside the home and apparently burned itself out. They say the fire may have been out for several hours before they were even called. The neighbors stopped by to check on the victim when he or she discovered what happened and called nine eleven"*). 

• 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. on the Monday of the fifth day of this February ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had audio of one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "Mardi Gras in Mobile is in full swing**; Tonight revelers were treated to three back to back parades: first the Order of Venus, second Joy of Life, and finally the Order of Many Faces.      Thousands showed up downtown to see the floats, hear the music, and catch the throws.            More than forty-five hundred people watched the parades live from our WKRG Facebook fan page. We had a nationwide audience; most of whom have never seen a parade of their own", and audio of his saying, "News 5's Debbie Williams is live on the Baldwin County beat -- and Debbie it's just a tragic situation" and a video of the aforementioned "Debbie Williams" saying, "It certainly is, Mel" before having a video of a report involving the words, "Nothing outside of the duplex apartment gave even a hint that something terrible had happened inside" immediately afterwards.  

(*the program appeared to have had its other news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying this in conjunction with the audio immediately before having it: "In Baldwin County a fire claims the life of a Foley woman")
(**the words "Mardi Gras" were French words for "Fat Tuesday")