31
Aug
Long Day, Short Update
Well, Ernesto pretty much passed out and decided to weaken to tropical depression strength as it went over Florida. This meant not much in the way of winds for the Orlando area. Actually, I've seen stronger winds tonight on the back side of the system. According to weather sensors on local hospitals, the highest wind since midnight has been 30mph. The photos I uploaded tonight are of when we lost all the cable/sat channels as a heavy squall was moving through the area. I was talking to Mom at the time, so had to juggle the phone and the camera. After I hung up with her, the power actually went out for a few seconds, but then came back on.
Since the station pretty much cancelled their 24/7 coverage, they changed my assignment to help them bring a new station online. WESH will actually be broadcasting 2 channels (3 if you count Weather Plus+) from their studios. The trick? It goes live way early Friday morning…and there is NOTHING on the server yet. It took us at KCCI a little over 3 weeks to move commercial spots over to the server. We did it in one day today. I think in total we dubbed in about 250-300 commercial spots and I prepped about 40 shows. Granted, not all of the shows were for the new station, but they were for the Hearst Hub. I still have no idea how the crap it works, but basically WESH receives shows that other Hearst stations also air. Someone at WESH prepares the show for air and then sends that information along with the show file to the stations that air the show. Except to double check the information, the other station really doesn't have to do much of anything at all.
This also means…I potentially knocked stations off the air across the country today. 
Alright, I guess this didn't turn out to be so short, but still, after working a 14 hour day today, this is most definitely a short post. Time to crash in bed, The rest of the week should, hopefully, be 10-hour days starting at 3pm. I fly back home on Sunday starting at 3pm and should get back to Des Moines around 10pm if all goes well. I'll post links again to the live flight tracking sites for the flights that I'll be taking closer to Sunday.
That's all for now…Good night!
