42, Day 5

7am in, 2am out.

Today's 8:00am meeting started at 8:33am. We're planning a quick fax with the Entertainment show on Wednesday at 6:30pm. The list of cameras everyone was agreed upon that are shares with the Studio show changed yet again, which means another 2 hours worth of programming and faxing.

After the 8:00 meeting there was another meeting about transmission. It is very evident that they really aren't sure what they want. After 90 minutes, they have a plan, and we start to put that in motion. I'm not quite sure they understand everything that is going on, and what they aren't really seeing.

Next up was that I missed lunch again. This is my time to be able to get things done for the show. When I can be left alone, I can get many more things done. I actually re-programmed the tallies for the cameras during this time and got caught up on paperwork.

We got Camera-39 to come out of the Studio truck. It took a little while to get control of it in the game truck, but after several tries, and having the right hand talk to the left hand, everything came up.

Later on in the evening, the TD reported that tallies in the monitor wall are sluggish. I verify that, and spend the next 3 hours working on this problem. It ended up being a misplaced colon on a VIP monitor that was added for this show.

This delayed the TD/Tape fax by 3 hours, but the fax did eventually go well with the exception of tallies through the tape release switcher. We'll be working on that on Wednesday.

What a surprise. The cameras going to the studio show have changed yet again. This requires re-programming all the tally shares yet again. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but since many of the cameras are being shared three ways, the tally statements get really convoluted.