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TV STATIONS TO POOL COVERAGE IN D.C.

Washington D.C. is the latest city to create a pool service among several of its stations to cover scheduled events like news conferences and celebrity appearances. WRC, WTTG, and WUSA said that each of them will assign two cameramen to the pool but that no reporters will be attached to them. Chicago and Philadelphia have set up similar pool operations. "We're in an economic time when [we] have to look for every efficiency we can," Duffy Dyer, WTTG's general manager, 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" in the news budget.

22/05/2009