ABC outlets redo sites.

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1999 by Tedesco, Richard

ABC Internet Group switches from Starwave to iXL In a move to upgrade ABC's affiliates presence online, the ABC Internet Group has dropped Starwave Communications and engaged iXL to redesign the ABC owned and operated stations' Web sites. Some ABC stations were dissatisfied with the service they were receiving from Starwave, until recently a West Coast unit of Disney.

"We just weren't getting the attention from Starwave that we needed," says Tom Kane, president and general manager of WABC-TV in New York. The deal with iXL was "brokered" by the ABC Internet Group, according to Kane, who says the feeling was that iXL was "better equipped to work with the stations." Jamie Barton, ABC director of affiliate development, says the Internet Group...

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