Bornstein, the Web wiz.(Steve Bornstein named chairman of the Buena Vista Internet Group)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1999 by Tedesco, Richard

Experts: ESPN chief chosen to lead Buena Vista to focus Disney's Internet assets Setting a course for creating a cohesive Web strategy, Disney last week named Steve Bornstein chairman of the Buena Vista Internet Group. But Bornstein's appointment, after just five months as president of ABC Inc., leaves that post unsettled and raises questions about other potential management shifts at ABC.

Bornstein, 47, also will be named president of Go.com, the Internet tracking stock Disney plans to create from its pooled Web assets after it completes the acquisition of Infoseek later this year. Bornstein already serves on the Infoseek board of directors, but says the current move was not contemplated when he took the ABC post. His successor in...

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