News for Monday, August 31st, 2015

• WKRG-TV had various technical problems on their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") today (its broadcast began at 12:02 p.m. instead of its regular start time of 12:00 p.m.; it had no animated sequence of the announcer for their local news programming (Jay Gardner) saying, "Now on WKRG News 5" at the beginning of its broadcast; it had no preview of news reports and weather information before an animated sequence with the announcer saying, "From WKRG News 5, the gulf coast's news leader. The news starts now"; it had microphone problems for its news presenter (the weather reporter for the program (John Nodar) gave her (Devon Walsh) a different microphone seconds after the problem arouse); it had no commercial break after a preview of news reports that would have been broadcast afterwards; it had audio of an unidentified person who did not appear on the program using an expletive synonymous with sexual intercourse; and it had static noise during its final segment).

News for Sunday, August 30th, 2015

• Both WZEW-FM and WNSP-FM had a programming segment about plans for a "blood drive" that occurred in Mobile last July on the broadcast frequencies this morning (the segment was part of a local public affairs program normally broadcast by them on a weekly basis titled "Community Roundtable"). 

• This past Friday's edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of a reporter for WKRG-TV (Avery Cotton) providing a live report from Gulfport, Mississippi about the previous president of the United States (George Walker Bush) attending a ceremony there to commemorate to tenth anniversary of the day that a tropical cyclone named "Katrina" affected it and other cities around it (the anniversary was this past Saturday, August 29th) whereas WPMI-TV's local midday news program  ("Local 15 News at Noon") had only had video of the ceremony itself along descriptions of it from a news presenter in their broadcast facility in Mobile (the name of the news presenter was Kelly Jones).

• Even though the local midday news program for WKRG-TV was the only TV news program of its kind in southwest Alabama to have had a live report about the ceremony mentioned in the previous paragraph, the one for WPMI-TV was the only one of that kind to have had video of the former president of the United States mentioned in that paragraph speaking live at the ceremony. 

News for Saturday, August 29th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a report about some of the history of Mobile from between the years 1955 and 2015 on today's edition of their local news program for Saturday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") in honor of the 60th anniversary of their first regular broadcast day on the Saturday of September 5th this year (as of this writing, the report is not available in any form on the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV).

• A reporter for WPMI-TV (Christian Jennings) was in New Orleans, Louisiana, doing reports about the president of the United States (Barack Obama) visiting New Orleans to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the day that a tropical cyclone named "Katrina" affected New Orleans and other cities near the Gulf of Mexico for their local news programming this past Thursday, August 27th, (the anniversary was this Saturday).

News for Friday, August 28th, 2015

• WALA-TV was set to have the second half of today's edition of their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") dedicated to a special report about a tropical cyclone that affected parts of their local broadcast area back in the year 2005 named "Katrina". 

• One of the news presenters for WKRG-TV (Rose Ann Haven) had a remote interview with a former news presenter and news reporter of theirs at a TV station in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Jeniffer Mayerle at WCCO-TV) concerning a certain person that she, the former news presenter, and news reporter, had met while reporting on the tropical cyclone mentioned in the first paragraph of this report (Hardy Jackson).

• WKRG-TV had a report in which the prices of certain types of items and services from the year 1955 were compared to recent prices for the same types of items and services on today's edition of their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") in honor of the 60th anniversary of their station's first regular broadcast day (Monday, September 5th, 1955) this September. (as of this writing, the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV only has a written version of the report.)

News for Thursday, August 27th, 2015

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had a report about their history and the person who had been part of their local news programming the longest (Mel Showers) in honor of the 60th anniversary of their first regular broadcast day being on the Saturday of September 5th this year.   

• This past Wednesday's editions of WKRG-TV's local 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. news programs ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a report about the special local programming they had last Friday, August 21st, being the "most-watched show of the entire week in the Mobile [Alabama]-Pensacola [Florida] area" that was not as elaborate as the one that was posted onto their official World Wide Web site today.

News for Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 (amended)

• According to the official World Wide Web site for the satellite TV company Dish Network, the programming feeds for the main broadcast channels for WEAR-TV and WFGX-TV were unavailable through their satellite TV system from this past Tuesday, August 25th, until this evening due to disputes over them and other programming feeds with the holding company for WEAR-TV and WFGX-TV (the Sinclair Broadcast Group). 

• The hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") used the news and discussion segment for today's edition of the program to talk about reports of a news reporter and a camera operator for a TV station in Roanoke, Virginia (WDBJ-TV) getting killed while broadcasting for the station (the host named Joe Emer said they "had" to talk about it since it involved their "industry": television). 

• The news presenter for WPMI-TV's midday news programs (Kelly Jones of "Local 15 News at Noon") had erroneously referred to a candidate for the presidency of the United States as "Republican presidential nominee" on today's edition of the midday news program while presenting a report about a public meeting he was hosting in Pensacola, Florida (southeast of Mobile) at the time this edition of the program was being broadcast (the name of the candidate was John Ellis (Jeb) Bush). 

(amendment note: links to news articles were added to the paragraphs about the hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program and the news presenter for WPMI-TV's midday news program and a few more details were added to the one about the news presenter (the details included Pensacola's proximity to Mobile and the the reason for John Ellis Bush being in Pensacola on this Wednesday)) 

News for Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

• Video recordings of past editions of local news programs for WALA-TV, WPMI-TV, and WEAR-TV dated for the year 1999 were uploaded onto the Internet video service YouTube on the Friday of last August 14th (you may access each recording by selecting the call letters of the stations in this paragraph).

• One of the news presenters for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (Avery Cotton of "WKRG News 5 This Morning") used part of this edition to tell members of its audience that they would be seeing more of a certain person who appeared in a video recording for a report she had just presented (the name of this person was Alison Spann) before welcoming her as the newest reporter for WKRG-TV (the other news presenter for the program (Chad Petri*) also welcomed her before saying this past Monday, August 24th, was her first day in her position at WKRG-TV).

(*Chad Petri was substituting for the other regular news presenter for the program: Bill Riales)