In May, three local TV stations in Washington, D.C., announced they were reducing expenses by pooling video of breaking news. “We’re in an economic time when [we] have to look for every efficiency we can,” Duffy Dyer, general manager of one of the stations, told the Washington Post. “It’s never made a great deal of sense to have 15 cameras at some scheduled news event or ribbon-cutting. This is a good place to start making some inroads.”