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People

# Edward Walson

American cable operator who commissioned the Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

| Label | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Nationality | American |

The record

American cable operator and film producer who commissioned Ferrari's P540 Superfast Aperta after requesting a modern reinterpretation of the gold-coloured Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari in Toby Dammit.

Edward Walson is one of the children of John Walson Sr., who opened Service Electric Co. as an appliance store in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, in 1945. The company says John Sr. extended a cable from a Broad Mountain antenna to the store and several homes in 1948. Its history records 1979 recognition by Congress and the National Cable Television Association, and quotes the Congressional Record calling it the nation's first cable television system.

Service Electric's history records location-based subsidiaries in 1991 and a separate 1993 division of the business among John Sr.'s children. A Morning Call report published in 2012 said that Edward Walson ran Service Electric Co., serving Schuylkill County, Wilkes-Barre and northern New Jersey. The company says he sold Service Electric Cable TV of New Jersey to Altice Communications in 2020; a New Jersey regulatory record puts the agreed cash price at $150 million.

His official Sony Pictures Classics biography lists City Island among his film credits. Sony's Blue Jasmine page and its 8 January 2013 release name Edward Walson among the producers of Blue Jasmine. In 2008, Walson approached Ferrari to create a modern reinterpretation of the gold-coloured Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari in Federico Fellini's 1968 Toby Dammit. Ferrari's release says Pininfarina designed the P540 Superfast Aperta, based on the 599 GTB Fiorano, which Ferrari built in Maranello and delivered to him at Fiorano after fourteen months.

### Second Special Project

Ferrari's contemporaneous release describes the P540 as the second car in its new Special Projects programme, based on a 599 GTB Fiorano and inspired by the Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari in Toby Dammit.

### Client involvement

Ferrari's release states that Walson was directly involved at every development stage, and that fourteen months passed from the initial sketches to the final road-legal car.

The stations

1. 2013–2020 Service Electric Broadband Cable TV of New Jersey Owner

The house

[![Ferrari](https://hiconium.dev/images/marques/full/ferrari.svg)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/ferrari)

In the register

## One file carries this name

- [Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta Commissioning client 2009 €2.5M 2009 €2.5M Rating 78.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/p540-superfast-aperta)

The files above are the register's own record of this name. [The people index](https://hiconium.dev/people) holds everyone the register credits.

In their words

> “This is the most special Christmas present of my life.”

Edward Walson · Ferrari press release, reprinted by The Gentleman Racer, 2009

Sources

- [sectv.com](https://sectv.com/about/)
- [tmcnet.com](https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2012/08/20/6519346.htm)
- [sonyclassics.com](https://www.sonyclassics.com/bluejasmine/bios/edward.html)
- [sonyclassics.com](https://www.sonyclassics.com/bluejasmine/)
- [sonyclassics.com](https://www.sonyclassics.com/downloads/BlueJasmine-Release.pdf)
- [thegentlemanracer.com](https://thegentlemanracer.com/2009/12/1-of-1-new-ferrari-p540-superfast/)
- [nj.gov](https://www.nj.gov/bpu/pdf/boardminutes/2020/20200325/March%2027%2C%202020%20Minutes.pdf)
- [nexttv.com](https://www.nexttv.com/news/altice-usa-completes-small-system-buy)