Bill Riales Biography, Age, Height, Wife And Wkrg

Bill Riales Biography

Bill Riales is a television news journalist who grew up in the Mississippi Delta. He’s spent plenty of time trolling the turn-rows and backroads of the delta and many other parts of the deep south. Currently, Bill lives on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay with his wife and son. He can be seen each weekday morning on one of the major television affiliates in Mobile, Al.

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Bill Riales Height

Riales stands at a fair height and has a fair body weight to match his height.

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Bill Riales Mobile Mario

MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) With the start of Black History Month, News 5 is featuring hidden history throughout the month in honor of the observance. As a kick off for the month, we spoke with actor/director Mario Van Peebles who is back in Mobile for several appearances.

Van Peebles plays a troubled former U.S. Marshall in his new movie ‘Armed.’ It will premiere at the Saenger Theater Saturday night, February 2nd to help kick off Black History Month in Mobile.

“Cause I’ve played a lot of heroes with guns over the years and I thought, what about a hero who’s got a skewed since of reality and he’s got a lot of guns and he’s on the no-fly list. What would it be like to be inside that guys head,” he told News 5.

Proceeds from the movie premiere will benefit the oldest black Episcopal church in the state. It’s the culmination of a series of events involving Van Peebles that included a black-tie gala Thursday night. On Friday, February 1st, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd on Donald Street will open its doors for a gathering, led by Van Peebles, and debut the church’s new digital pipe organ provided through Broussard’s Piano Gallery, which is also sponsoring the events involving Van Peebles.

Van Peebles said he’s glad to be involved.“Again, while I have the chance to do something good with my energy and time, do it. If you can benefit a church like that and bring awareness to something beautiful, do it, and so that’s part of it,” he said.

Tickets for the movie premiere are $15 and are available at Broussard’s Piano Gallery or the Saenger Box Office. The event includes a question and answer session with Van Peebles and proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Church.

Van Peebles is no stranger to Mobile. He directed ‘USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage,’ which was shot in Mobile.

Bill Riales Wkrg

MOBILE, Ala. – Outgoing morning news anchors Bill Riales and Jennifer Abney were scheduled to share the WKRG-TV5 anchor desk for the last time Tuesday, leaving Abney to remain on the air only a short time longer. The team is being replaced after WKRG managers decided not to renew the anchors’ expiring contracts, Riales said.

Incoming anchor Devon Walsh – absent from the Mobile airwaves since 2002 – will return to the WKRG fold Monday, although viewers might not see her on the air quite that soon, according to management at the CBS affiliate.
“It won’t be very long, but it won’t be then, I don’t believe,” said WKRG General Manager Joe Goleniowski.

Citing corporate policy, Goleniowski wouldn’t give a reason for the personnel change.Walsh will be a familiar face to WKRG viewers. She left the station as an evening news anchor in 2002 when she relocated to Birmingham, where she worked at Fox affiliate WBRC-TV6.

Walsh said she and her husband loved Birmingham, but they wanted to return home to their native Mobile to work and raise their infant son.

“I am thrilled to go back to WKRG,” Walsh said. “I am lucky they had an opening for me and would have me back.”

Bill Riales MAMGA

Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) –The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association, or MAMGA, is the African-American organization founded in 1938. The regalia of kings and queens of the organization is now on display at the ‘Parading Through Time’ exhibit at the History Museum of Mobile.

MAMGA was started by a group of businessmen who wanted to pave a path for young African-Americans.

“They wanted to provide cultural activities for young African-Americans that were in college and provide them on a path to success,” said MAMGA President Eric Finley.

The first king, Alex Herman, was a politician and father of a later queen, Alexis Herman, who served as the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. The first queen, Aline Howard Jenkins, was a long-time Mobile educator and principal at Council Elementary. Miss Jenkins died only last month at the age of 97.MAMGA was started to foster the kind of success these people and many others achieved. While the racial separation between MAMGA and the mostly white Mobile Carnival Association has been noted by some, Finley says it’s also not as stark as some might think.

“We’re not knocking at Mobile Carnival Association’s door and they’re not knocking at Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association’s door, we have events, and we do joint events–we have projects and we’ve found out that in some cases economically its an advantage that we share some venues,” he said.

One of the largest venues they share is downtown Mobile itself, with what is by far the largest parade in the city on Fat Tuesday, the Mammoth Parade.

You can learn more about the history of MAMGA and see their items on display now at the History Museum of Mobile. The display runs through April 20th.