News for Friday, October 6th, 2017

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first halves of the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the fifth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 5" and "WKRG News 5 at 6" respectively) each had video of a news reporter for their local news operation (Hayley Minogue) demonstrating how to prepare a house for a tropical cyclone.

• Some of the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV since the Thursday of the fifth day of this October had some members of their local news operations promoting some digital applications (or "apps") for receiving information pertaining to weather with the brand names for their respective news operations after presenting information pertaining to a tropical cyclone named "Nate".

• An Internet video stream that usually had local news programming for WKRG-TV in recent times had a recording of the the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV by the end of the Thursday of the fifth day of this October instead of the local news program that appeared on the channel 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 Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 4:00 a.m. this Friday had one of its news presenters (Eric Reynolds) saying this: "FOX10 News is committed to keeping you one step ahead of the storm, We'll have continuing coverage throughout our newscasts this morning, which has been extended to ten o'clock today (note: the channel was usually set to have a local program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles during the hour of 9:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Studio 10"), and then tomorrow morning we'll be starting at 5 a.m." (note: the channel was not usually set to have local news programming during the first half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday or the hour of 5:00 a.m. on Saturday in recent times).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Friday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of its regular news presenters (Lenise Ligon) talking about a "programming alert" concerning their local news programming and a weekly sports program of theirs that was usually set to appear on the channel from the beginning of the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. to the middle of it on Friday in recent times ("First and 10") while a graphic of some text of what she was talking about appeared (this is what she said, "A programming alert, now, because of 'Tropical Storm Nate', we are extending our coverage for you. So that means 'First and 10' will not start until 10:15 tonight and our morning newscast starts at 5:00 tomorrow morning; runs until 10:30" (note: the channel was not usually set to have local news programming during the hours of 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 10:00 a.m. on Saturday in recent times). 

News for Thursday, October 5th, 2017

• 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. this past Tuesday on the third day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") had video of one of the sports reporters for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) speaking with an analyst of football for their main provider of network programming (Randy Cross of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)).

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Tuesday of the third day of this October concerning a message attributed to a news reporter for their local news operation (Hayley Minogue) from a Facebook page attributed to her about the idea of her getting a "raise" from a "boss" of hers for having a certain number of "likes" for the Facebook page attributed to her and the idea of the "boss" wearing a jumpsuit if the page were to have have another certain number of "likes". 

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10" for WALA-TV) had video of a news conference (involving the governor of the state of Florida) for a few minutes (between an interview and some cooking) during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Thursday (it initially had video of it with a volume of audio lower than than of its own video  between having one of its hosts (Michael White*) saying they were having audio problems before speaking to the guests mentioned earlier for a few seconds before presenting video of the news conference with a volume of audio higher than that of the other video of it). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters  (Joe Emer**) saying, "Tomorrow morning be sure to tune in to the news starting at four o'clock" while having a graphic of some letters and numbers appearing to proclaim "FOX10 NEWS STARTING AT 4AM" over his torso whereas the local news program appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had the other news presenter for the other program (Lenise Ligon) saying,"Join our morning crew at 4 a.m. tomorrow" for the last few seconds of its installment with him (note: the channel was not usually set to have local news programming during the first half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. in recent times).***

(*he was not a regular host for the program)

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program)

(***update for Friday, October 6th, 2017: the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had an episode of a syndicated program that was usually part of its regular programming plan for the first half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. for Monday through Friday in recent times ("How I Met Your Mother") during the first minute of that hour this Friday before having some local news programmings of theirs afterwards (beginning with an animated sequence normally used for "breaking news" in some of the other local news programming they had in recent times before having its news presenters (Eric Reynolds and Sarah Wall) presenting news without having introduced their selves)

News for Wednesday, October 4th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WAVH-FM had a message dated for the Monday of the second day of this October concerning some video of a discussion on a local radio program for WAVH-FM named "Midday Mobile" along with the video itself.

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a video involving a logo for their broadcast operation and the words "Prayers for Las Vegas" between some of the programs it had between the Monday and Tuesday of the second and third days of this October.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") and the hour of 9:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") on the Tuesday of the third day of this October each appeared to have one of its news presenters (Joe Emer* and Lenise Ligon) on the set normally used for its broadcasts in recent times interacting with a reporter for two TV stations connected to their broadcast operation outside of the TV market for southwest Alabama (KPHO-TV and KTVK-TV** in the city of Phoenix in the state of Arizona) in a remote part of the city of Las Vegas in the state of Nevada for a live report he or she was doing from there (Carissa Planalp for the first program; Jared Dillingham for the second program)*** 

• 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 Thursday of the twenty-eighth day of September for this calendar year ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had video of a sports reporter for their local news operation (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) on a set resembling that of a football field normally used in some of the local news programming they had in recent times (specifically parts dedicated to football****) speaking to a reporter for a local TV station connected to them outside of the TV market for southwest Alabama (Steve Dent of WFRV-TV in the city of Green Bay in the state of Wisconsin) through a monitor on the set (he said the reporter was "in Lambeau Field" while introducing him on the program).***** 

(*he was not a regular news program for the programs)

(**all of them were members of a holding company named the Meredith Corporation)

 (***the installment of the first program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday appeared to have a reporter for another TV station connected to WALA-TV due to their being part of the holding company mentioned in the sentence above this one (Jeremy Finley of WSMV-TV in the city of Nashville in the state of Tennessee))

(****not to be confused with soccer)

(*****WFRV-TV and WKRG-TV were members of the Nexstar Media Group (note: WFRV-TV and the Nexstar Media Group were not mentioned on the program; even though the reporter was wearing a shirt with the letters "WFRV" and some of the graphics used to identify on the program had the word "Nexstar" beside the words "News Network" together in that order)

News for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017

• 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 second day of this October ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had somber music while one of its news presenters promoted a report related to a certain massacre in the city of Las Vegas in the state of Nevada for the program a few seconds before some of the breaks in its broadcast in addition to having music normally used in its broadcasts in recent times while one of its news presenters promoted a report related to a different subject a few seconds before some of its other breaks (the installment of the program that appeared on the channel during that hour this Tuesday had the same somber music while one of its news presenters promoted another report related to the massacre for the program few seconds before at least one of its breaks).

• 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 Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a news reporter for their local news operation (Mary Smith) saying they did not have permission to show a certain video for a report she was doing about the video (she did not explain why, even though they (and a World Wide Web site attributed to them) had reports about the same video explaining why they did not have it for their broadcasts through the channel in recent times) whereas the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have the video for its own report about it. 

• One of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Kati Weis) and one of the hosts for some of the local programming they had other than news programming in recent times (Joe Emer of "Studio 10" (a program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles) and "First and 10" (a program dedicated to football teams for high schools in the broadcast area of WALA-TV) were the news presenters for the installment of the local news program mentioned in the first paragraph from the top of this report broadcast this past Monday instead of their regular news presenters (Bob Grip* and Lenise Ligon**).

• The host for the local TV programs mentioned in the previous paragraph was also the news presenter for the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for their station during the hour of 9:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") both this Tuesday and this past Monday.

• The news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this past Monday had the member of their broadcast operation mentioned in the previous paragraph referring to its weather reporter (Jason Smith) only by his surname ("Smith") while commenting about a news report he had just presented in one of its segments.

(*A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV had video of the host named Joe Emer talking about filling in for this regular news presenter until the Friday of the sixth day of this October) 

(**she and the host named Joe Emer were news presenters for the installment of the program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday)

News for Monday, October 2nd, 2017

• A World Wide Web site named YouTube had a video described as a "station ID" for WJTC-TV dated for sometime between the calendar years 1991 and 1992. 

• 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. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had its news presenter (Bill Riales) saying, "And this is a look at the white house where all flags have been put at half staff for the victims of the shooting" while video of a (white) house with a flag at the top of its staff appeared. 

• 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 Monday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had one of the news reporters for their local news operation (Katarina Luketich) saying the words "butt dialed" for a news report (she said a certain person thought this was the reason for her being contacted by telephone and that it was done by mistake*). 

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had special news programming from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) for about two-thirds of the period of time in which its programming was usually set to consist of a local news program of theirs named "3 in the Morning" from Monday through Friday in recent times (those "two-thirds" included the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hour of 5:00 a.m.) before having it for about the rest of that period of time (the hour of 6:00 a.m.) this Monday.

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had special news programming (about a speech by the holder of the position of president of the United States) from their own news operation between parts of a local TV program of theirs dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10") for a few minutes during the last ten minutes of the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Monday (one of the hosts for the program (Chasity Byrd) said they would have such a speech in their programming whereas its other host (Michael White**) said some of the news presenters for their local news operation (Eric Reynolds*** and Sarah Wall) were standing by in case "anything breaks")

(*you may learn more about the reporter was talking about through this hyperlink)

(**he was not a regular host for the program)

(***he was the presenter of the special news programming for WALA-TV)

News for Sunday, October 1st, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had an advertisement about a digital sub-channel added to their broadcast operation this past September between parts of the local news program it had during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Sunday ("NBC 15 News at 5 [p.m.]").  

• An Internet video stream for WKRG-TV had an advertisement from the time in which one of their local news programs ("WKRG News 5 This Morning"*) was usually set to begin appearing on the stream and their main broadcast channel at the beginning of the hour of 5:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday this Sunday (it had the words "Watch News 5 This Morning" and "Weekdays starting at 5am" in one of its graphics). 

• 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 Saturday of the last day of the month of September for this calendar year ("WKRG News 5 at 10" on the thirtieth day of it) had a graphic with the words "Farewell Monte" appearing over video of a certain person identified by the words "Monty Hall" by some captions on an Internet video stream for a separate part of its broadcast (it had audio of its news presenter referring to him by those words for that part of its broadcast) whereas the one that appeared on the channel during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Sunday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") had a graphic with the word "Monty" appearing in place of the word "Monte" after the word "Farewell" over the same video.**

(*the program was usually set to begin appearing on the channel and the stream at the beginning of the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times)

(**the Internet Movie Database had the name "Monte" listed as being part of the "birth name" of the person ("Monte Halparin")). 

News for Saturday, September 30th, 2017

• One of the local news programs for WKRG-TV ('WKRG News 5 at Noon") had videos about certain restaurants specialized in barbecuing for a contest involving them and other restaurants specialized in barbecuing in its broadcasts for the Friday and Thursday of the twenty-ninth and twenty-eighth days of this September.

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had some video about a plan for the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV)* to have a program that used to appear on their own main broadcast channel on a regular basis (usually on Saturday nights) between the calendar years 2010 and 2012 ("Heartland") on the Sunday of the first day of October for this calendar year.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 5:00 a.m. this Saturday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") had its regular news presenter (Chad Petri) introducing his self in a way unlike the way he usually introduced his self in its broadcasts in recent times (he did not say, "I don't know who's watching, but I'm glad you are" while doing so in its broadcast for this Saturday). 

• 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 past Friday ("NBC 15 News at 5 [p.m.]") had one of the news presenters for their local news operation (Greg Peterson) saying the channel would have a "salute" to a former member of an armed service at "9:59 [p.m.]" before having one of their other local news programs ("NBC 15 News at 10 [p.m.]") at "10:00 [p.m.]" on a regular basis. 

(*both WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV were members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)