Sunbeam's Ansin Hopes for Quick Agreement with DirecTV
Letter to Sen. Kerry Offers No Assurance about Super Bowl Telecast
John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 1/26/2012 1:49:45 PM
Sunbeam president Edmund Ansin gave no assurances to Washington that there wouldn't be a Super Bowl blackout, though he did say negotiations were taking place with DirecTV, with hopes of finalizing an agreement "quickly."
That came in a letter to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) dated Jan. 24, a copy of which was supplied to Multichannel News.
Kerry had asked both Ansin and DirecTV president Michael White to publicly declare there would be no blackout of the Super Bowl -- the New England Patriots are playing -- in Boston if a retrans deal were not reached by Feb. 5.
In a brief response, Ansin said he, like everyone at his Boston stations, was "delighted" the Patriots were in the Super Bowl and wanted all their viewers to see the game, hoped to finalize a deal so that would be the case and thanked the senator for his concern.
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