Re: Richard Chonak <rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us>: veto power?

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mediaone.net>]

At 5:10 PM -0500 12/1/99, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>Interesting side note,  an employee of CBS Boston got one of the
>satellite packages and was getting CBS programming from out of state,
>Buffalo or LA as I recall.  Ed Goldman notified the satellite company to
>cut him off, so this CBS Boston employee couldn't watch CBS programming!
>He didn't really care, it was shortly after CBS lost the NFC so the only
>thing he really watched was Touched By An Angel

I really doubt that Ed Goldman personally had anything to do with it.  It
was probably just some administrative employee, who had instructions upon
receiving the list of subscibers from Prime Time 24 (who provided the
network affiliates for DirecTV at the time), to only allow waivers for
those with zip codes outside the "grade B" area, in compliance with the
SHVA.

This is how it is handled at channel 7, the letter may go out with Mike
Carson's name, but it's really someone in the accounting dept handling it
all.

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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH