- This past Wednesday's (January 28th) edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had a report in which the snowstorm that affected parts of the northeastern region of the United States on the previous Monday (January 26th) and Tuesday (January 27th) was referenced by the name it was given at the Weather Channel, a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service ("Juno" was the name given to the storm).
- Various reporters and news presenters for WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV were reminiscing about an ice storm that occurred in their local broadcast areas back in the year 2014 as part of their local news programming this past Thursday, January 29th, since it was the first anniversary of it.
- Shortly before this past Thursday, the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile began sending different data about its Music Choices channels to digital transport adapters connected to it (the data normally sent before then included names based on different categories of music for the adapters to display on the channels with music that applied to them; as for the new data, it included names based on the letters "MC" and the channel numbers for the music. For example, it had MC01 for channel 401 and MC50 for channel 450).
- I had decided to change my work pattern for this weblog for the betterment of it and my life in general after realizing I made some errors in in one of the news articles I had posted here last Saturday, January 24th (my news report for today has more details about these errors). They reminded me of my tending to put myself under unnecessary pressure for this weblog (even though I should be enjoying it) and made me realize that I should change my work pattern for the betterment of it and my life in general. So I decided to only have news articles for this weblog published during evening hours, take breaks from my computer more often, and avoid using that computer longer than necessary. I may even consider only publishing news articles from Monday through Friday in order to have more time to relax.
- This past Thursday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 10:00") and today's edition of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") each had a reporter from another TV station (Sergio Avila of KSNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada for the first report; Kelly Koopsmans of KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington for the second report) broadcasting from Glendale, Arizona about activities related to the National Football League's plans to hold a championship football game there this Sunday, February 1st (the game would be called "Super Bowl XLIX").
- The persons who provided the aforementioned broadcasts and the TV stations their represented had the same parent company as WPMI-TV: the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
- WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") did not begin with its regular opening sequence for its broadcast today; it began with a preview of some of its segments for today instead (the program usually had such previews after the regular opening sequence before then).
- WALA-TV 's local 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had another live report from New York, New York this past Tuesday, January 27th, within 24 hours of their previous live reports from there.
- Both of the live reports for the aforementioned news program for this past Tuesday were about the outcomes of the snowstorm that happened in New York and in other parts of the northeastern region of the United States that day and this past Monday, January 26th. They even had the same person who provided the previous live reports (Yon Pomrenzie of the Cable News Network).
- The aforementioned person answered a "follow-up" question about the snowstorm from one of the regular news presenters for the aforementioned news programs as part of each report just as he for each of the previous live reports (both of the regular news presenters got the chance to ask him a "follow-up" question).
(clarification note: this weblog's first reports about the previous live reports from New York were edited to clarify that each of the local news programs only had one of those live reports and that Yon Pomrenzie had answered only one "follow-up" question during each of those reports).
- This past Monday's (January 26th) editions of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m" and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had a live report from New York, New York about a snowstorm that was happening there and in other parts of the northeastern region of the United States.
- The person who provided the reports about the snowstorm (Yon Pomrenzie of the Cable News Network) answered a "follow-up" question about the snowstorm from one of the regular news presenters for the aforementioned news programs as part of each report (both of the regular news presenters got the chance to ask him a "follow-up" question).
- WPMI-TV's main programming recently had an advertisement with a message about their parent company (Sinclair Broadcast Group, even though the message had an alternate name for them) and organizations specialized in providing information about opportunities for new jobs and referring applications for folks who want them ("Sinclair Communications is looking for
organizations that regularly distribute information about employment
opportunities to job applicants or job applications to refer."). It also had the address for their own company for which these organizations may use to contact their own director of human resources if they want to be notified about new positions in their company.
- I had noticed some of WALA-TV's news presenters and news reporters expressing personal opinions about certain news reports that may or not be their own opinions about them on a more frequent basis over the past couple of calendar weeks as part of their local evening news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."). I wish they would not do this any more and focus more on providing facts (if their bosses had required them to express personal opinions about news reports or allowed them to do so on their own accords, I wish these bosses would reconsider either way).