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"I'll give this idiot a bit of credit, at least she can laugh at her own stupidity."

See my post above- she did absolutely nothing wrong, it was the sound engineer at the board in the control room who messed up. That's the guy who decides what channel to bring up and which outgoing bus to mix it into, and he chose to bring up her mic. Sending it to the live bus was probably a mistake, the intent was most likely to eavesdrop for a little fun- with his headphones on he missed the fact that he was live nationally!

If it was up to the talking heads with their own wireless sets, you'd hear them switch in and out for every segment- it would go like this: Producer says it's time for the weather, so the weather guy switches on and the two behind the desk reach for their transmitters and switch off. You don't see that, it's seamless because it's done from the sound board.

All of the wireless units are on all the time, and the sound man selects which channels to feed to the main output. Like a Broadway musical that uses fifteen mics, the talent does not do the switching (or you'd hear dressing-room noise when Ado Annie goes offstage to change if she forgot).

Most of the time, the transmitter is hard for the talent to reach, especially for women who don't wear a jacket- it'll be behind them at waist level where they can't get to it.

I won't dispute at all that someone in the control room screwed up big-time (maybe even on purpose).

But are you telling me that it's normal for anchoresses to go to the ladies' room with their microphones attached and on, so that the nerds in the control room can always hear every single word they're saying? I'm pretty gullible, but sorry, I'm simply not buying that one. She had no idea that anyone else outside the restroom was listening in on that little conversation.