He will leave the Miami ABC affiliate and its owner Post-Newsweek Stations at the beginning of next year, joining the board of Rentrak and acting as a consultant to the ratings firm.
The networks tells its affils that it wants to work with them in developing an ABC TV everywhere service that allows cable and satellite subscribers to watch on mobile devices. Each affiliate would be able to offer a locally branded service within its market. ABC would charge affiliates for the programming rights, but they could recoup those fees and perhaps make a profit by charging operators as they do for retransmission consent.
