When It Rains, It Pours!!

It's monday, and I think I finally recovered from friday's "what can go wrong will go wrong" day. We had lack of production crew and lack of equipment. It all started the minute we walked in the building , finding out that our normal five people production crew is now down to three. With all the shuffling we did, our 5AM director was ready to step up and run audio while I'm going toi do the same step up and do three jobs (floor directing, prompter, and cameras). I've done it before three jobs at once but it was only for about 5 minutes. Oh and of course there is the master control which the audio operator also have the honor of doing master control. The three people left in the production crew did not know how to do master control. Our first live update at 4:27AM, we were ready, but we completely forgot about master control. The hub automatically turned it over to us, which we didn't know about, so we sat in black for maybe about 30 seconds but feels like 3 hours. That live new update ended up being scratched. Then on we go to our 2 hour newscast which starts at 5AM. We got desperate that we told Dave that he can bring his kids since Scott called in sick (very unexpected), while Dave's child problem we knew about. Dave showed up just in time for the 5AM show. On to the next problem - mics - our female anchor's mic was having problem, so during the commercial breaks, we told her to reset her mic which she did. Commercial is over, now to the second block, JPo still having problems with her mic, we ended up changing her batteries during the commercial. I think her mic worked for a little bit then messed up again. We told her to use the anchor desk mic, she got it on but now Dave could not find it on the audio board. We told JPo to put on the sports anchor desk mic, again could not find it on the audio board. Switched her back to her problem mic (wireless mic), which worked for at least one block. Another commercial break, this time we gave her the male anchor mic and finally it worked. The another problem, JPo have to be standing up and away from the anchor desk, so she needs to be on a wireless mic. I told Dave about getting the weather mic, which Suchan was wearing. I took the weather mic from Suchan and surprised JPo with it and told her to put the wireless mic cause she will be moving. At one block she ended up wearing two mics one on each side. Finally, took the male anchor desk mic and just let her used the wather mic which lasted the rest of the show. So let me just say that from 4:30AM to 7AM, JPo ended up changing her mic six (6) times until we finally found one. Done with the mic dilemma, but through the whole musical mics, anchors' IFB were having problems. Anchors were hearing feedback plus in the studio also. Finally we made it through the two hour show even with all the obstacles. We thought we were all done with the technical difficulties, but we made a mistake of breathing easily, we still have the noon show. WE thought the noon show we wont have anymore problems, boy were we wrong!!! Fifteen minutes before the show starts, camera 3 prompter monitor was black (it wasn't working at all). I had to call the engineering to have it fix and hopefully get it fix before the noon show, which it did get fix. What a crazy Friday we had!!! So now, I'm finally recovered (I think), but will never forget that day.