To begin with, airplanes do fall out of they sky, sometimes right on your backup generator. (speaking from military experience where yes, there is an entire backup studio waiting to take over, just in case. Or rather, the 'studio' is geographically dispersed, with 100% redundancy, which is another way of saying the same thing.)
But more importantly, *this* is what you noticed from that article?
No, but this was the point where the "let's make something up" got to be too much.
I'm not talking about low budget UHF channels, but TV stations I've been in and around all have multiple studios. If the switcher in Studio-A goes down, the signals can be routed to the control room for Studio-B. Also, Alex the know-it-all is such a forced thing that is just ridiculous and eye roll inducing. Anybody that is a jack of that many trades is a master of none of them. The entire forced analogy just got to be too much and I lost interest before a point was ever made.