I'm just loving all of this. LOL
I went out on a double date with a weekend news director of a local station a couple of years back. The other guy on the "date" worked at the same station he did. When they started talking shop, it was about which on-air people were always doing their reports while drunk.
We had a 10:00 anchor in TX. He would come back from "dinner" so blasted, there was a seat belt on his anchor chair.
He could keep it together for about 30 seconds at a time, however, and do a great lead in to a reporter's package.
"Good evening, I'm Bob Iizzard (real name.) Here's the news. Two cars tangled on the interstate tonight and three local residents are dead. Larry XXXXX has the story.
Larry would then do a report, while Izzard crashed on the newsdesk.