Jay Leno Will Air in Boston

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LOS ANGELES NBC’s rebel Boston affiliate will carry the network’s new Jay Leno prime-time talk show after all.

A week after WHDH-TV owner Ed Ansin started a firestorm by announcing his plans not to air the show because it “will be very adverse to our finances,” he changed his mind.

“Upon further consideration, we have decided to telecast Jay Leno at 10 p.m. starting in September,” Ansin said in a statement. “Jay is from Andover, where I went to school.

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