News for Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

• The weather reporter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV this Tuesday (Kelly Foster on "Local 15 News at Noon") used part of its broadcast to tell its audience that their "next round of rain" would come when they sleep while showing a map of their areas with indications of rain predicted to occur between the evening of this Tuesday and the morning of this Wednesday (on the thirtieth day of this November).    

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV had a theatrical movie originally released to the public in general before the year 1980 unlike most of the theatrical movies that had been listed as part of its programming plans from the past year this past Monday on the twenty-eighth day of this November (the name of this particular movie was "To Catch a Thief"; the year it was originally released to the public in general was 1955; as for when it was part of the programming feed for the channel this past Monday, it was between the second half of the hour of 2:00 a.m. and the beginning of the hour of 5:00 a.m).*

• 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. this past Monday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") did not have an "emoji forecast" (a type of weather report involving icons of different facial expressions) for its broadcast that day like its previous broadcasts in recent times (the final segments of its broadcasts were usually dedicated to such forecasts by then; as for how it ended this past Monday, it ended with a more ordinary type of weather report with a weather reporter who was not usually part of its broadcasts in recent times (Matt Barrentine was the name of this reporter; the name of the one who usually presented weather reports for its broadcasts in recent times was Jason Smith).**

(*according to Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, the channel was set to have another theatrical movie originally released to the public in general before the year 1980 (it was named "King Kong" and originally released to the public in general in the year 1976) on the third day of this December (between the hour of 7:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m.))
(**the broadcast for this Tuesday ended with an "emoji forecast" and the same weather reporter) 

News for Monday, November 28th, 2016

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had a paid commercial program (or "infomercial") in place of a syndicated news program dedicated to entertainment ("Extra") that was usually part of its regular programming plan for Monday through Friday (for the second half of the hour of 11:00 a.m. for those days) in recent times this Monday.*

• An image described as being of a former radio station located in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named WALA was posted onto the official Facebook page for one of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) with a message about it being the first of several images related to the former station to be posted onto the page earlier this November.

• The sports reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) sang the words, "When you wish upon a 'CW55 Star' " on their local news program for the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. for this Monday a few seconds after one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) promoted a plan by their companion station (WFNA-TV) to hold auditions for a new promoter for their broadcast operation ("The CW55 Star") this Saturday on the third day of this December in the city of Foley in southwest Alabama.

(*the same type of program took the place of the news program on the same channel in the same time period on the same day of the week in the past) 

News for Sunday, November 27th, 2016

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Ashley Knight) talked about a person in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama dressed as a fictional character named Santa Claus as if he were the actual character while some video in which the person was identified as the character played as part of a report about him in some of their local news programming this past Saturday evening on the twenty-sixth day of this November. 

• One of the announcers for a national TV program about a live football game involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Auburn University that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV this past Saturday (Merton Laverne (Verne) Lundquist) mentioned a former sports reporter for WKRG-TV (James Scott Hunter) for his connection to the company that provided the program (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) and his connection to the University of Alabama (the former reporter was an analyst for TV programs about collegiate sports distributed by the company and a former quarterback for the university).

• Some of the news presenters in some of the local news programming for WKRG-TV earlier this calendar week usually ended their broadcasts about various plans for the game described in the previous paragraph would be the last of its kind for the announcer mentioned in that paragraph to "call" (or describe).

News for Saturday, November 26th, 2016

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had two special editions of a local entertainment and lifestyle program of theirs ("Studio 10") within twenty-four hours of each other between this past Thursday and this Friday on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of this November respectively (the one they had on the channel this past Thursday was dedicated to various ways of preparing food whereas the one for this past Friday was dedicated to various musical performances).

• According to a digital statement attributed to the Comcast Corporation sent to customers of their cable TV system in the county of Mobile in southwest Alabama (Comcast Cablevision of Mobile) this November, there was a plan to raise the fee for using a digital transport adapter to receive cable TV programming through the system (from $3.99 to $5.99) on the Sunday of the first day of January of the next calendar year (2017) and apply it to any new customer of the system who may be using such a device to receive its programming by then before applying it to any current customer of the system who may be using such a device to receiving its programming on the Thursday of the first day of June for that year. 

• WALA-TV and WPMI-TV each had a local news program without an opening sequence (or title sequence) in their broadcasts this Saturday (the one for WPMI-TV during the the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") began with videos of two persons commenting about news of a former president for the nation of Cuba (Fidel Castro Ruz) dying this past Friday whereas the one for WALA-TV during the hour of 10:00 p.m. (it was simply titled "FOX 10 News" due to its time period not being one of their regular time periods for local news programming (10:20 p.m. to 10:49 p.m.) in recent times) began with an animated sequence normally used for "breaking news" on their local news programs in recent times (in the case of the program for this Saturday, the news was about a "possible shooting" in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama this Saturday).

News for Friday, November 25th, 2016

• A recording of a special TV program for WKRG-TV about the football teams for the University of Alabama and Auburn University was uploaded onto the official YouTube channel for WKRG-TV this Friday (the name of the program was "The Battle for Braggin' Rights").

• WALA-TV had special programming segments dedicated to videos of various members of the military of the United States making special holiday greetings on some of their local news programs this past Thursday on the twenty-fourth day of this November (their local news program for the hour of 9:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had two of those segments whereas the one for the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") only had one of those segments). 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had some scrolling text (between graphics normally used for their local news programs in recent times) concerning whether their programming feed for the channel would still be accessible through DirecTV and AT&T U-verse TV after the Thursday of the first day of this December or not during its presentation of a TV program usually broadcast locally once per year (the name of the program was "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"; as for how long the text appeared on the channel during its broadcast, it was for about five minutes). 

News for Thursday, November 24th, 2016

• 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. this past Wednesday on the twenty-third day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had a report about some members of their local news operation expressing thanks for certain aspects of their lives. 

• WKRG-TV had two national news programs from their main provider of network programming ("The CBS Morning News" and "CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) take the place of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") on their main broadcast channel this Thursday (the first one was usually part of its programming during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. between Monday through Friday whereas the other one was usually part of its programming during the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. for those days).*

(*the one named "The CBS Morning News" was broadcast twice during the hour of 5:00 a.m. this Thursday)

News for Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 (corrected)

 (correction note: part of the name used in reference to the network TV program mentioned in the third paragraph of this report was corrected)

• One of the hosts for the local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV from Monday through Friday in recent times (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") used the last few seconds of its broadcast for this Wednesday to tell its audience the edition of the program set for broadcast this Thursday on the twenty-fourth day of this November was a "best of cooking" edition.

• The news presenters on 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 Wednesday (Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven on "WKRG News 5 at 10") had erroneously referred to a recent candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) by the word "president" while presenting reports related to him (the one named Mel Showers used it with the word "incoming" ("incoming president") whereas as the one named Rose Ann Haven used it with the surname of the candidate ("President Trump")).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had some scrolling text (between graphics normally used for their local news programs in recent times) concerning whether their programming feed for the channel would still be accessible through DirecTV and AT&T U-verse TV after the Thursday of the first day of this December or not during its presentation of a special historical program from their main provider of network programming (the name of the program was "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 90th Celebration"; the name of its provider was the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)).