The publication writes that the first deal will be with a station in a top 10 market where ABC's does not own the station. The likely candidates are Boston, Atlanta, Dallas and Washington, D.C.

“We want to be the program supplier to stations looking for original programming for their digital signal,” Bill Burton, an ABC executive, told Media Week.

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