News for Monday, January 8th, 2018 (amended)

(note: the first paragraph below this sentence was amended for clarity)

• A certain Internet video stream appeared to have had the first part of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Monday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") immediately after having the last part of the one that appeared on the channel during the hour of 4:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") this Monday (note: the parts were separated by a black image that lasted no more than one second).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on the Sunday of the seventh day of this January ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had audio of its news presenter (Chad Petri) referring to a member of the news operation at WKRG-TV that he and other members of the operation had usually called "Thomas Geboy" in some of the local news programming it had before then in recent times as "Tommy Geboy".

• 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 Friday of the fifth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had an animated sequence it often had after having announcements of "breaking news" between previous installments of it after some of the opening sequences it often had in recent times before having one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) presenting a report of a certain lottery (this is what she was saying while doing so: "Breaking news coverage you can count on: the winning numbers to tonight's Mega Millions numbers are in") whereas the local news program that appeared on the channel for WALA-TV during the same period of time that day ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") did not have such a sequence before having one of its own news presenters (Lenise Ligon) presenting a similar report.

• 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 sixth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying, "I was never good at math, so good luck with that lesson" after having a video of a report involving math before having audio of its sports reporter (Robby Baker) saying, "And remember if you're planning a trip up to Atlanta for tomorrow's* big game; plan accordingly, give your self some extra travel time; lots of added security for the championship game and with President Trump expected to attend the normal high traffic in Atlanta's down-town area is expected to be even worse on Monday" immediately after presenting a report related to plans to hold a game of football for a certain championship in a certain place named Atlanta on the Monday of the eighth day of this January. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the sixth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had its news presenter (Steve Alexander Ozenovich) saying, "Someone woke up a lot richer today; must be nice, huh? The winning ticket for last night's Mega Millions jackpot was sold at a gas station in the Tampa area. That ticket, worth, oh, four hundred and fifty million dollar. Only one ticket matched all six numbers: twenty eight, thirty, thirty nine, fifty nine, seventy, with that Mega Ball of ten. The retailer gets a hundred thousand dollars bonus commission for selling the winning ticket, too. Not to bad. Now if you did miss out on the Mega Millions drawing, probably did, don't feel too bad because in less than an hour from now someone could become almost six hundred million dollars richer. FOX 10 News reporters caught up with some of you who bought tickets in Pensacola" before having a video of a report related to what he was saying (it also appeared to have had his saying, "New year, new you, new movies: some good ones will be making their debut on the silver screen this year. We're taking a look at some of them coming up on 'FOX 10 News' " before one of its breaks from appearing on the channel (it had a video of a certain report related to such movies afterwards)). 

(*this was not a typographical error)

News for Sunday, January 7th, 2018

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the seventh day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of the members of the news operation at WALA-TV usually set to be a news presenter for installments of it for Monday through Friday in recent times (Bob Grip) instead of the one usually set to be its news presenter for installments of it for Sunday in recent times (Lee Peck).

• 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 Sunday ("NBC 15 News at 5") appeared to have had the members of the news operation at WPMI-TV usually set to be the news presenters for installments of it for Monday through Friday in recent times (Kym (Thurman) Anderson and Greg Peterson) instead of the one usually set to be its news presenter for installments of it for Sunday during those times (Andrea Ramey).  

• A Twitter page attributed to a radio host for WAVH-FM named Sean Sullivan had a message attributed to him dated for the Friday of the fifth day of this January concerning a TV and radio program named "Guerrilla Politics" and WAVH-FM itself (note: the program was part of a live audio feed on a World Wide Web site connected to WAVH-FM on the Saturday of the sixth day of this January in a period of time (during the second half of its hour of 11:00 a.m.) when it was usually set to have a program named "Midday Mobile Replay" on Saturday in recent times).*

• The broadcast operation for WAVH-FM was usually set to have a series of news reports involving the name of a certain news service ("CBS News") broadcast within the first five minutes of the first and second halves of certain hours on a regular basis in recent times before having a series of news reports not involving the names of any news service within the first five minutes of certain hours on the Saturday of the fifth day of this January (one of the news presenters (or "anchors") for the series of news reports not involving the name of any news service had said, "I'm Ann Cates" for one of those series of reports (note: a World Wide Web site attributed to a news service named "Westwood One News" had a listing for an "anchor" named "Ann Cates")). 

• 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. on the Saturday of the sixth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had audio of its news presenter (Ashley Knight) saying, "We first told you about this as breaking news this morning" after presenting one of its reports without explaining what was meant by that statement and her mentioning a certain "Chris Renkel" and "Conan Gasque" without explaining who or what they were before having her appearing to interact with a person in what appeared to had been a remote location separate from hers identified as "Conan Gasque" in a digital box while having her in a separate digital box (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 10:00 p.m. that Saturday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had a video of a report involving the person identified as "Conan Gasque" without any other information attributed to him besides that name (the person appeared to had said, "In Atlanta, Conan Gasque, now back to the studio" near the end of it)).** 

(*one of the hosts for the program had used the last few seconds of it to welcome "new listeners" of it in places referenced as "Mobile" and "Birmingham")

(**update for Monday, January 9th, 2018: 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 Monday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had a news presenter of its own (Jessica Taloney) referring to a "Conan Gasque" of a "sister station" of WKRG-TV before having a video of another report involving the person identified by that name (note: the person appeared to had been holding a microphone with part of the name of a station related to WKRG-TV ("WIAT" for WIAT-TV in the city of Birmingham in the state of Alabama) while saying, "In Atlanta, Conan Gasque, now back to the studio" near the end of it***)).

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

News for Saturday, January 6th, 2018

• 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 Friday of the fifth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "Back in Mobile, the birthplace of Mardi Gras" before saying when a certain type of parade could happen in this place after presenting a report of a celebration related to this "Mardi Gras" (a "Carnival" celebration) having occurred somewhere other than this place that day.*

• 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 Wednesday of the third day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of its weather reporters (Jason Smith) saying, "Here's where we stand now, most spots are below freezing all ready so the heaters [are] probably running in your house right now, they'll probably run all night, and our energy bills are going to take quite a hit this week because more cold air is with us again for tomorrow night and it's not over with til the weekend" after presenting one of its weather reports.  

• 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. on the Friday of the fifth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had some digital graphics related to Carnival (such as masks and certain decorations) and weather (such as temperatures) and its weather reporter (John Nodar) appearing to react to them while presenting a report related to weather: "The radar is absolutely quiet and there's a Fat Tuesday forecast. Wow, that's--that's incredible. Mardi Gras coming really early this year. Let's see if I can hand crack this computer and get it straighten out, but I will tell you we do have a weekend warm up on the way. We'll tell you in a moment right here on 'News 5' ".**

• 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 news presenter (Chad Petri) saying this regarding a certain station related to them due by ownership "Today you can catch a special on the New Orleans Saints and their potential play-off run. It is called 'Saints March Through the Playoffs: A Geaux Nation Sports Special'. That will be on at 1:30 on our sister station the Gulf Coast CW (a nickname for WFNA-TV)" (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Friday of the fifth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its reporters (a sports reporter named Randy Patrick Setterstrom) presenting a similar report related to the station after presenting a report related to the aforementioned "Saints" (concerning a plan for a game of football involving them) and his saying, "Go Saints" afterwards).*** 

(*the phrases "Fat Tuesday" and "Mardi Gras" (French words for "Fat Tuesday") were often used in describing the last days of Carnival seasons in recent times). 

(**the graphics included texts such as "Fat Tuesday Forecast"; "KOR/CC", "12:30 PM", "Humid" appearing together from top to bottom; "MAMGA", "2:00 PM", and "Warm" appearing together from top to bottom; and "OOM", "6:00 PM", and "Breezy" appearing from top to bottom)

(***their ownership included being part of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

News for Friday, January 5th, 2018

• 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 Friday ("Studio 10") appeared to have had an interview with a person who did various announcements for various advertisements for various TV and radio stations in southwest Alabama (named Barry Silverman).

• 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 fourth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had a member of the news operation at WALA-TV (Sarah Wall) thanking and acknowledging certain entities for being part of a certain project that she and other members of the operation had promoted in some of the local news programming it had since the month of November for the previous calendar year named "10 Caring Gifts". 

• 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. on the Thursday of the fourth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had at least one of its news presenters (Jessica Taloney) referring to a TV station with the same owners as theirs as their"sister station in Hampton, Virginia" (without any mention of its name) while appearing to introduce a video of a report by one of its members (the words "Rico Bush" were displayed over the member in the video).* 

• 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 fourth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) introducing a certain reporter as being that of a "sister station" of theirs (without mentioning the name of it) before appearing to have her and its other news presenter (Bob Grip) in a box interacting with the reporter in a separate box (a graphic with the words "Courtney Zieller" appeared over the video of the reporter it had outside of box that had her).** 

• 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 fourth day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying this regarding a certain video of a certain news report before having the video itself immediately after his doing so: "What amounts to a winter hurricane is pounding the east coast, bringing with it high winds and flooding compounded by low temperatures. One low-line area that is being hit is Plymouth, Massachusetts, [that is] south of Boston. Well FOX 10 special correspondent, and my niece, Katie Perkins is on the scene: she sent me this video about what it was like".***

(*a World Wide Web site attributed to a TV station with the same owners as WKRG-TV located in the state of Virginia named WAVY-TV appeared to have a had a profile of a reporter for its news operation named "Rico Bush" on this Thursday)

(**a World Wide Web site attributed to a TV station with the same owners as WALA-TV located in the state of Connecticut named WFSB-TV appeared to have had a profile of a reporter for its news operation named "Courtney Zieller" on this Thursday)

(***the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the aforementioned Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") on the aforementioned Thursday appeared to have had the same video immediately after having the same news presenter appearing to present a similar statement related to it)

News for Thursday, January 4th, 2018

(note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018") was amended)

• Two counties in southwest Alabama (Mobile and Baldwin) were part of a game being played on a national (syndicated) TV program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Thursday (the name of the program was "Jeopardy!").*

• A Facebook page attributed to a member of the House of Representatives of the United States named Bradley Byrne appeared to have had some recordings of some local TV programs for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV and a recording of a local radio program for WNTM-AM with some messages pertaining to them and his self dated from between the Tuesday of the second day of this January and the Wednesday of the third day of this January.** 

• 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 Tuesday of the second day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had audio of one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying, "All ready Mobile has its first homicide of the year; what we know about the victim and the two crime scenes" between two animated sequences often used to begin installments of it in recent times. 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV was usually set to have no break between having the last segment of the local news program that was usually set to be part of its programming during the hour of 5:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") and the first segment of TV program mentioned near the top of this report from Monday through Friday in recent times before this calendar week (it had such a break on the Tuesday and Wednesday of this week (the second and third days of this January).

• 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. on the Wednesday of the third day of this January ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had one of its news reporters (Katarina Luketich) saying, "It is cold, Bill and Jessica***; not quite as cold as yesterday, but my [nose is] still cold, still turning into Rudolph out here, all though we are still trying to thaw out a little bit" while doing what appeared to had been a live report from a remote location. 

(*you might be able to access a recording of the installment of the program that appeared on the channel this Thursday through this hyperlink)

(**the Facebook page had a similar message attributed to him dated for the same period of time pertaining to his self and another local radio station (WAVH-FM) with the exception of it not having a recording of the installment of the radio program for the station that had him beside it ("Midday Mobile"))

(**"Bill" and "Jessica" were the forenames of the news presenters for the program (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney))

News for Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 (amended)

(note: the fourth and fifth paragraphs below this sentence were amended)

• A Facebook page attributed to a company based in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama named Sign Pro had some images attributed to its administration of some automobiles with some past and present logos for WPMI-TV with a message related to WPMI-TV dated for the Tuesday of the second day of this January.  

• 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 Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") appeared to have had a person mentioning some nicknames for WALA-TV ("FOX 10") and WKRG-TV ("News 5") for what appeared to had been a live interview conducted by one of its news reporters (Ashley Knight) in what appeared to had been a remote location.

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles  ("Studio 10" for WALA-TV) appeared to have had some compilations of various videos of its hosts (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) in its installments for the hour of 9:00 a.m. both this Wednesday and the Tuesday of the second day of this January (note: the installment of the the program that appeared on the channel for the aforementioned Tuesday was not hosted by them (the names of their hosts were Matt Barrentine and Asha Staples)).

• 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 Monday of the first day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Devon Walsh) saying, "News 5's Hayley Minogue and photojournalist Arnell Hamilton bring us the story of some really crazy people" before having one of the reports it had in videos not involving her or its other news presenter (Peter Albrecht); one of its news reporters (Mary Smith) saying, "Interesting note here: there was a fire back here on Christmas in Seven Hills just a week ago and now here we are on New Year's Day another fire so some bad luck around the holidays here in Seven Hills" in what appeared to had been a live report from a remote location; and a sports reporter (Robby Baker) saying this in reference to certain "field goals" for a game of football after referring to them as the "ugliest" he had ever seen: "Because of TV rights restrictions, I unfortunately cannot show them to you right now, but you could use the Google machine and see them for yourself".**

(**the aforementioned news presenters were not its regular news presenters (the one named Peter Albrecht was usually one of its news reporters in recent times whereas both he and the one named Devon Walsh were usually set to be the news presenters for installments of a separate local news program for the channel on calendar days other than Saturday and Sunday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 5" (it was usually set to be part of its programming during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. on those days in addition to Saturday)))

News for Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

• A certain Internet video stream stream appeared to have had the first segment of 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. for this Tuesday ("Studio 10") immediately after having the last segment of the local news program that appeared on the same channel during the hour of 8:00 a.m. for this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 8:00 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. on the Monday of the first day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lee Peck**) saying, "Because we're stupid, I like that" after having video of a report involving a person saying, "Cause we're stupid".

• 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 Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had one of its news reporters (Katarina Luketich) saying, "Pizza, that's how I celebrate anything, so I can't blame him" after presenting a report of how a certain coach (named Nick Saban) celebrated a certain game of football involving a team with whom he was associated (the football team for the University of Alabama).

• 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 first day of this January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had its news presenter (Lee Peck***) referring to a member of the news operation at WALA-TV (named Devan Coffaro) usually called a "news reporter" in some of the local news programming it had in recent times as a "sports reporter" whereas some captions for an Internet video stream of the program appeared to had referred to the reporter by what she was usually called.  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV on the Monday of the first day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had an animated sequence often used for announcements of "breaking news" between previous installments of it (and other local news programs for the channel in recent times) after the animated sequences often used to begin them in recent times with the exception of the one for the reports related to weather they had before them during those times instead of either one of them or even the one with audio of an announcer saying, "From WKRG News 5, the gulf coast's news leader: breaking news now" used in place of them in certain installments of it during those times. 

(*update for Wednesday, January 3rd: 2018: the stream did not have the first segment of the installment of the program dedicated on entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the channel this Wednesday immediately immediately after having the last segment of the installment of the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 8:00 a.m. this Wednesday)
(**he was not a regular news presenter for it)
(***he was not a regular news present for installments of it for calendar days other than Sunday in recent times)