News for Saturday, November 4th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV was set to have a theatrical movie for some hours when it was not usually set to have such a movie in recent times on the Sunday of the fifth day of this November (the name of the movie was "Her Best Move"; the hours in which the channel was set to have it for this Sunday were the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.)

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a video of certain members of the local news operation at WKRG-TV in various locations (including some that appeared to had been remote and some that appeared to had been part of the set for some of the local news programming they had in their broadcast operation in recent times) appearing to tell members of churches, businesses, and the public in general to volunteer for a certain organization specialized in acts of charity (the Salvation Army) for one day during some of its breaks from having programs that were usually part of its programming in recent times.

(note: the paragraphs below this one concern how some of the local news programming for WALA-TV earlier this calendar week had certain members of their news operation refer to the last day for following a certain practice of keeping time in certain parts of the United States for a certain number of months on a yearly basis in recent times for this calendar year ("daylight-saving time"))

• 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 Thursday of the second day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith) appearing to say this in reference to the practice mentioned in the note above this paragraph: "Don't forget to set the clocks back an hour on Saturday night with daylight savings time kicking in" after presenting information pertaining to weather. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. this Saturday* had one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Adam Olivier) appearing to say this in reference to the practice mentioned in the note above the previous paragraph of this report: "And we want to remind you tonight is daylight savings time. It's ending, so you want to turn your clocks back an hour before you head to bed so you can wake up and get that extra hour of sleep. I know that's very important to many people, and so want to remind you of that".

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 6:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m.") had one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine) appearing to say this in reference to the practice mentioned in the note above the last two paragraphs of this report: "Everything looks great today; temperatures are going to be in the low eighties today, so it's shorts and short sleeves; so it's summer time clothes out there for us today even though we are falling back tonight. Yeah! So it's--tomorrow morning's probably for the best morning for me with people who get to have that extra hour with daylight saving time [ending]. Once again, if you want to annoy people, give 'em that today; correct them. There's no savings; there's no 's' on that. Saving! So, just wanted you to annoy your friends and neighbors".  

(*the channel was not usually set to have local news programming during those hours on Saturday in recent times (it had special programming related to sports from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the hour when it was usually set to have such news programming on Saturday evenings in recent times (the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m.)) 

News for Friday, November 3rd, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had some live video with some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) speaking to a member of the operation one of them said was their "boss" on the Thursday of the second day of this November.

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the second day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") each had a video with one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Adam Olivier) saying, "Living along the gulf coast, we are no strangers to crazy weather".  

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had what appeared to had been a live video of one of the sports reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) discussing the sport of football with a host of a national TV program dedicated to the sport for the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV (Adam Zucker of "College Football Today" for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) on the Tuesday of the thirty-first day of October for this calendar year.  

• 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 second day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had video of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) interviewing a person on a set normally used for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that was usually set to be part of its programming during the hour of 9:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Studio 10") and a local news program that was usually set to be part of its programming during the hour of 4:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.").  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the first day of this November and the first half of the hour of 12:00 a.m. on the Thursday of this second day of this November* had an audible beep obscuring audio of a certain person speaking** in one of its videos (this was how the video was introduced by one of the news presenters for the program (Bob Grip): "Nick Saban was in classic form tonight when he was asked about the Crimson Tide's number two ranking in the first college football playoff poll. In case you don't know by now, Nick Saban isn't too keen on rankings this time of year. So listen to how he answered").

(*the channel was not usually set to have a local news program during the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. before those days in recent times (it had special programming related to a certain game of baseball from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) when it was usually set to have such news programming after the hour of 6:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m) before doing so during those hours between those days))

(**the person was saying a word synonymous with the words "donkey" and "simpleton" often used as a form of profanity in referring to buttocks)

News for Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WPMI-TV had some articles dated for this Thursday and the Wednesday of the first day of this November with reports of a certain competition involving certain broadcasters like WPMI-TV being held at a fair in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named the Greater Gulf State Fair.

• A Facebook page dedicated to a certain area of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named the Grounds appeared to had been amended on the Wednesday of the first day of this November with video of an advertisement for WFNA-TV mentioned in a report for this weblog for the Wednesday of the twenty-fifth day of October for this calendar year.

• 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 thirtieth day of October for this calendar year ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "Now take a look at these aerial shots from the FOX 10 Drone of the work that's being done" while some video related to what was saying was being displayed (he was presenting a report of a certain type of hotel in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama being constructed). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the first day of this November ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") and the one that appeared on it between the second half of the hour of 11:00 p.m. that day and the first half of the hour of 12:00 a.m. this Thursday after the special programming it had related to a certain game of baseball from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the hours when it was usually set to have local news programs from Monday through Friday in recent times (the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m.) had one of their news presenters (Bob Grip for the first one; Lenise Ligon for the second on (both programs had them)) presenting a report of their broadcast operation (WALA-TV) being excited to accept a certain award from a certain group (a "business of the month award" by the Southwest Mobile County Chamber of Commerce) and certain members of the operation accepting it earlier that Wednesday holding what he or she said was that very award before thanking the group for having chosen the operation for the honor.  

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a special program related to sports from their main provider of network programming (a "pre-game show" from the FOX Broadcasting Company) at an hour when it was usually set to have a syndicated program named "Jeopardy!" for the first half of it from Monday through Friday in recent times (the hour of 6:00 p.m.) on the Wednesday of the first day of this November after the local news program it had before that hour that Wednesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) presenting a report of a plan for it to have the special program after the one named "Jeopardy!" and a plan for it to have the syndicated program it was usually set to have during the second half of the hour in which it was usually set to have the one named named "Jeopardy" from Monday through Friday in recent times during the second half of the hour in which it was usually set to have a syndicated program named "Celebrity Page" from Tuesday through Saturday in recent times (the hour of 3:00 a.m.) this Thursday (the channel had a ticker with a message stating the program named "Jeopardy!" would appear (or air) on the channel at 3:00 a.m. this Thursday while having the very beginning of the special program (it was usually set to have a syndicated program named "Page Six TV" during the first half of the hour of 3:00 a.m. from Tuesday through Saturday and the second half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (it did not have it during the second half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. for the Wednesday mentioned earlier due to the special programming mentioned in the paragraph above this one)) 

News for Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

• Some of the local news programs that had appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV since the Saturday of the twenty-eighth day of this October each had certain members of their respective news operations either presenting or doing a report regarding a certain song with their explaining why they cannot have audio of it on their respective programs (note: the last three hyperlinks are for pages with videos of some of those reports whereas the first one is for a page with only text of a report concerning the song).

• A World Wide Web site named TVNewsCheck had an article dated for this Wednesday concerning the holding company for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV (the Nexstar Media Group) and a company specialized in providing certain programming feeds normally used for some digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV in recent times (one of the channels for WKRG-TV usually appeared to had a feed from a national TV programming named Laff whereas some of the channels for WFNA-TV usually appeared to had feeds from some national TV programming services named Grit and Bounce TV; as for the name of the company specialized in providing them, it was Katz Networks).*

• 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. this Wednesday ("Gulf Coast Today") had one of its hosts (Terra Reeves) appearing to refer to certain persons as "idiots" in reference to a certain answer for a certain question on a certain part of the program dedicated to questions like it (the question was, "This is the top item people are most likely to buy in the wrong size"; the answer for it was "gloves"; the part of the program with it was named "Almost Impossible Trivia"; as for what she had said in reference to its answer, "I've always tried those in the store. Whatever. whatever. Some people are idiots").

• 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. this Wednesday ("Studio 10")** had one of its hosts (Joe Emer) appearing to credit certain news reporters for the news operation at WALA-TV (Alexa Knowles and Lee Peck) for making what he had said were pumpkins on the set of the program resemble certain logos for their broadcast operation (one of them appeared to had been the husk of a pumpkin with holes resembling logos of theirs based upon a nickname for them ("FOX 10") whereas the other one appeared to had been a piece of such a husk resembling logos of theirs based on the number 10) before saying they were doing so during a certain game of baseball the night of the Tuesday of the thirty-first day of October for this calendar year (he had referred to the game as a "long World Series game" while doing so) as part of a discussion of those things with its other host (Michael White***). 

(*the channels (for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV) that usually appeared to had programming feeds from Laff and Grit usually appeared to had been part of their broadcast operations since this past October, even though WALA-TV usually had a digital sub-channel of their own with what appeared to have been a programming from Laff whereas WJTC-TV usually had one of their own with what appeared to had been a programming feed from Grit before then in recent times and afterwards)

(**an Internet video stream for the program appeared to have had video of a building in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia commonly called the White House and video of a room with a group of persons and a sign with the words "Police Department City of New York") in place of it while it was still on the channel)

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

News for Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a video of an advertisement for a radio station in their local broadcast area named WDLT-FM between parts of the local news program it had during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the Monday of the thirtieth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30"). 

• 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. on the Monday of the thirtieth day of this October appeared to have had live video of its news presenters (Kym Thurman and Greg Peterson) speaking to a reporter for a TV station related to theirs by ownership based in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia (Scott Thuman of WJLA-TV) from its set whereas the reporter appeared to had been speaking to them from a separate location identified by some of its graphic as being part of that very city.*

• Some of the local TV programs broadcast this Tuesday appeared to have themes related to Halloween in observance of this Tuesday being Halloween for this calendar year (examples: the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. for this Tuesday ("NBC 15 News at Noon") had a member of WPMI-TV (named Brandon McFarland) and a member of a radio station in their local broadcast area named WRGV-FM (Matt McCoy) each wearing a costume for a segment of it dedicated to news pertaining to entertainment**; the 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. ("Studio 10")  and the one that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the second half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. for this Tuesday ("Gulf Coast Today") each had their respective hosts (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd for "Studio 10"; Kelly Foster and Terra Reeves for "Gulf Coast Today") wearing costumes; the local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles for WALA-TV mentioned in the previous sentence had a video of one of its hosts (Joe Emer without a costume) discussing Halloween with certain members of the local news operation at WALA-TV; 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. for this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a report concerning reports of ghosts in various places in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama and a person specialized in "hunting" ghosts (A Facebook page attributed to a news presenter and news reporter for the news operation at WKRG-TV (Bill Riales) and their main broadcast channel each appeared to have had a special video with an announcer speaking of a plan for the program named "WKRG News 5 at 10" to have such a report this Tuesday); the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV it had at a time when it was not usually set to have news programming of theirs on a regular basis in recent times (sometime during the hour of 11:00 p.m.) after having special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the evening hours of this Tuesday had its news presenters presenting images of various persons described by them as relatives as theirs wearing costumes while having a graphic with the words "Halloween for FOX10 Kids!") 

(*both stations were members of the Sinclair Broadcast Group)

(**the segment also involved persons without costumes (Darwin Singleton of WPMI-TV and Greg Hill of WRGV-FM); 

News for Monday, October 30th, 2017

• 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. this Monday ("Studio 10") had an interview with a former sports reporter for the news operation at WALA-TV (Rob Lehocky).

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 5" and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") each appeared to have had live videos of one of their weather reporters (Alan Sealls and Jason Smith respectively*) doing reports related to weather from the grounds of a fair in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named the Greater Gulf State Fair.**

• 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. on the Sunday of the twenty-ninth day of this October ("NBC 15 News at 5 [p.m.]") had video of its news presenter (Andrea Ramey) appearing to express hatred for what its weather reporter (Jake Dunne) had appeared to say to her concerning a non-standard form of time ("daylight-saving time") usually followed in the United States on a yearly basis (this is what the weather reporter appeared to tell her, "Next weekend, daylight-saving time comes to an end, so we fall back one hour, which means our sunset, a week from today, Andrea, right around five o'clock, so it'll be dark now" after presenting a report related to weather; as for how she appeared to express hatred toward what he had just said, she was saying, "Let's just get rid of that. Let's just get rid of that; I say I hate that time of year when it's dark so early" (he appeared to agree with her afterwards before appearing to suggest that they "put it up to a vote" after appearing to tell her that "many communities are thinking about getting rid of the time change").

• 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 Monday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") appeared to have some video for a news report for the news operation of their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) with audio of a member of their own news operation (Jessica Taloney***) doing her own version of the report without any references to the provider or its news operation between videos of her used to introduce it and conclude it that also did not have any references to the provider or its news operation (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Monday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of the member saying the other program would have a "story" that "every parent and teacher will want to see" in reference to the subject of the report narrated by her whereas the program itself had audio of one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) before one of its breaks saying sounding as if he were promoting the report as one that "anyone with children at home needs to hear" before its broadcast on the program after the break.

(*both of them were usually called "chief meteorologist" by other members of their respective news operations in some of the other news programmings they had in recent times)

(**the local news programs that appeared on the channel for WKRG-TV during the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. also appeared to have live videos of the weather reporter named Alan Sealls doing reports related to weather from the grounds of this fair)

(***she was usually a news presenter for the local news program that was usually set to appear 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. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 This Morning"))

News for Sunday, October 29th, 2017

• 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 twenty-eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a video of a certain person saying, "What's that? Playoffs?" in a part of its installment dedicated to sports without any references to it (such as the name of the person) before having video of one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Robby Baker) saying, "All right, we're talking about the playoffs: college football playoffs" immediately afterwards. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV between the first and second halves of the hour of 6:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-eighth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 6"* and "WKRG News 5 at 10") had their news presenter (Ashley Knight) presenting reports concerning one of the radio stations in their local broadcast area (WKSJ-FM**) being involved in a certain charitable effort along with a video of a person identified by some of their graphics as a person associated with the station (Bill Black). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second hour of 7:00 a.m. this Saturday ("FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") had its news presenter (Devan Coffaro***) telling one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Adam Olivier) they should start their own protest regarding time for "trick or treating" after having a video of a report attributed to a reporter for the news operation of a TV station unrelated to theirs (Melissa Reid of WJW-TV in the city of Cleveland in the state of Ohio) concerning "trick or treating" in the last segment of its broadcast (note: the news presenter said this afterwards as part of that segment: "Longer trick or treating time, more candy, more fun").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV after the special sports programming it had from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the evening of the Saturday on the twenty-eighth day of this October at a time when it was not usually set to have any news programming of theirs on Saturday in recent times had its news presenter (Steve Alexander Ozenovich) saying, "Still ahead on FOX 10 News: Halloween right around the corner; think you know that, and some of the most popular costumes this year featured characters that were big hits at the box office. We'll show you right after this" while some captions for an Internet video stream of it differed from what he was saying (the captions appeared like this: "Still ahead on FOX 10 News -- Halloween is right around the corner. And some of the most popular costumes this year featured characters that were big hits at the box office. The details right after this.").****

(*the channel had special sports programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the first fifteen minutes of the hour of 6:00 p.m. before this news program)

(**the news presenter had referred to WKSJ-FM only by a nickname of theirs: "95KSJ")

(***she said she was "in for Asha Staples" (the name of the person who was usually the news presenter for previous installments of those programs for Saturday and Sunday in recent times*****) while introducing her self on those programs)

(*****the channel was usually set to have a local news program during the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. on Saturday in recent times)

(*****she was the news presenter for the installments of the programs that appeared on the channel this Sunday)