News for Saturday, August 6th, 2016

• Some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV had used some of their local news programming for this calendar week to solicit questions for only two of the candidates for the presidency of the United States (the names of the candidates were Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump).

• One of the hosts of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Michael White of "Studio 10" for WALA-TV) said its other host (Asha Staples) was hosting it for the very first time while introducing her on the program this past Friday on the fifth day of this August (both of them were substituting for the regular hosts of the program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd); as for what they mainly did for WALA-TV by then, the one named Michael White mainly did reports about weather for their local news program for Monday through Friday mornings ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") whereas the one named Asha Staples mainly did reports about traffic conditions in their local broadcast area for the same program).

• According to WKRG-TV, technical problems caused their local news program for Saturday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") to have two false starts in its broadcast for this Saturday between 5:00 a.m. and 5:12 a.m. (the first start involved the program being broadcast without audio for only a few seconds before being replaced by a series of promotional videos for a few minutes; the second one involved the program being broadcast for only another few seconds before being replaced by another series of promotional videos for a few minutes in spite of it having audio that time; afterwards it had been replaced by blackness for a few seconds before being replaced by an silent animated sequence with the words "technical difficulties" and a logo for WKRG-TV (with the names of two of the cities in their local broadcast area (Mobile in the state of Alabama and Pensacola in the state of Florida) and their radio frequency (RF) channel (27) below it), for a few minutes before its last start).

News for Friday, August 5th, 2016

(note: all times on this weblog reflect the Central time zone)

• Between 6:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. this Friday, the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a promotional video involving members of their local news operation, various persons from outside their broadcast operation performing different sports, and the words "Go Team USA" during certain breaks in its presentation of a special network program about a special "opening ceremony" for a series of sporting competitions (the Olympic games for the year 2016) from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) this Friday.

• According to WPMI-TV, one of the local TV programs that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel on Sunday evenings in recent times ("Local 15 LawCall") was set to begin appearing on the channel on Saturday evenings (between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.) on a temporary basis on the sixth day of this August due to their plan to have special programming about the series of sporting competitions mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report that may come from their main provider of network programming during its regular time period for Sunday nights (between 10:35 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.) after this Saturday.

• Between 7:00 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. this Friday, the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had the same programming that appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WKRG-TV) instead of the one it usually had from Monday through Friday evenings (between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.) in recent times before having no programming of any kind for several minutes each before having the programming feed it usually had from Monday through Friday evenings (the programming that appeared on both broadcast channels was from the main provider of network programming for WKRG-TV (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)); the programming that later appeared on the main broadcast channel from WFNA-TV was from their own main provider of network programming (the CW).  

News for Thursday, August 4th, 2016

 (one of the paragraphs in the report titled "News for Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016" was amended (one of the amendments made was a correction))

• WFNA-TV had video of some members of their broadcast operation (including members of the news department for their companion station (WKRG-TV)) giving away lemonade in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida on their local news program ("CW55 News at 9 [p.m.]"*) this past Wednesday on the third day of this August.    

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a promotional video about their plan to have certain students in their local broadcast area present weather reports on one of their local news programs (the one for Monday through Friday mornings named "FOX 10 News in the Morning"**) every "school day" beginning with the Wednesday on the tenth day of this August.

• Even though the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV occasionally had a promotional video in which a member of their local news department told their audience they were their "back to school station" this Thursday, the one for WPMI-TV had at least one member of their local news operation referring to their selves as their audience's "back to school headquarters" while presenting a report related to schooling on one of their local news programs this Thursday.  

(*the program was produced by the news department for WKRG-TV) 

(**the same name was used for their local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings in recent times (one of the weather reporters for the program for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Matt Barrentine) occasionally said "FOX 10 News weekend morning edition" during some of its broadcasts to distinguish it from the news program for Monday through Friday mornings).

News for Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 (amended and corrected)

 (note: the quotation in the second paragraph in this report was corrected in addition to a hyperlink to the video mentioned in that paragraph being added) 

• WKRG-TV had live videos about some members of their broadcast operation giving away lemonade in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida on one of their local news programs ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") and official Facebook page this Wednesday.*   

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a promotional video for their local news operation with static images of young versions of some members of the operation and audio of a member of the operation (a news presenter and news reporter named Devon Walsh) saying, "Good luck on your first day from WKRG News 5: your back to school station". 

• A group of digital graphics normally used on local news programs for WPMI-TV in recent times (including a scrolling news ticker, some temperatures predicted for certain cities in their local broadcast area, and logos for their broadcast operation and their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) appeared over some promotional videos they had on their main broadcast channel at a time when one of their local news programs for the channel ("Local 15 Today") usually started appearing on the channel on a daily basis from Monday through Friday in recent times (the segment appeared with the graphics about a minute later (5:01 a.m.)).   

(*the video on the local news program froze while one of the aforementioned members spoke during its broadcast)

News for Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

• The Alabama Public Radio station in southwest Alabama (WHIL-FM) was broadcasting promotions for programs from National Public Radio ("Morning Edition") and American Public Media ("Marketplace") instead of promotions for programs for the BBC World Service between its broadcasts of some of the programs for the service this Tuesday and this past Monday on the first day of this August.     

• One of the news presenters and news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Chad Petri) had elaborated on a promotional video for a national TV program from their main provider of network programming ("CBS This Morning" from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) that appeared on their main broadcast channel during one of the breaks in its presentation of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") this Tuesday while part of the last segment of its broadcast for this Tuesday (he said the "special announcement" mentioned in the video was about a "book club" for the guest of the program mentioned in the video (a broadcaster named Oprah Winfrey).

News for Monday, August 1st, 2016

• WALA-TV had a report about a former member of their broadcast operation having died recently in some of their local news programming for this Monday (his name was said to had been Lee Robinson).

• WKRG-TV had a report about a member of the Senate of the United States from southwest Alabama (Jefferson (Jeff) Sessions) using the studio for their local news programs for a national TV program for the Cable News Network (CNN) this past Sunday on the thirty-first day of this past July in their local news programming for that day and this Monday.

• According to WPMI-TV, the local news program they usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Local 15 News at 6:30 p.m." for WJTC-TV) was cancelled last Friday on the twenty-ninth day of this past July (they channel had a syndicated news program named "Inside Edition" in place of it this Monday).*

(*the local news program was usually produced by the local news operation for WPMI-TV)

News for Sunday, July 31st, 2016

• Earlier this Sunday, one of the news presenters and news reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Chad Petri) had used part of their local news program for Sunday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") to talk about some flooding that occurred in his former "hometown" in the state of Maryland (Ellicott City) this past Saturday on their thirtieth day of this July.

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Mel Showers) had erroneously called a former candidate for the presidency of the United States from the past year (Marco Rubio) as "former presidential nominee" while presenting a report about him on one of their local news programs for this past Friday on the twenty-ninth day of this July ("WKRG News 5 at 10 [p.m.]"), 

• Two of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) had initially referred to two of the candidates for the presidency of the United States from the past year (Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton) by only their surnames (or last names) before referring to them by both their forenames (first names) and surnames on one of local news programs they had in their programming this past Friday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.").