Access Channels. (1) Grantee will provide the County with up to two (2) EG channels, though Grantee reserves the right to utilize for its own purposes any portion of such channels not utilized for EG purposes. The EG channels will be provided upon request by the County.
(2) The Grantee shall make the EG channels available to all Subscribers residing within Xxxxxxxx County in those areas where Grantee has authority to provide service.
(3) The Grantee shall have an obligation to provide playback, training, outreach, administrative support and production assistance to public access Users.
(4) If the County, in its sole discretion, finds unsatisfactory a contract for access services entered into pursuant to the preceding subsection (3), or the performance under such a contract, then the County may, in its sole discretion, undertake such management itself and the Grantee’s obligations pursuant to Section 7(a)(3) may be entirely discharged.
(5) Each EG Channel shall be transmitted in standard 6 MHz, unscrambled NTSC format so that every Subscriber can receive and display the EG signals using the same converters and signal equipment that is used for other Basic Service Channels.
(6) If the Grantee makes changes to Grantee’s Cable System that require improvements to access facilities and equipment, Grantee shall provide any necessary additional headend and distribution facilities or equipment within thirty (30) days so that Access Channel facilities and equipment may be used as intended, including, among other things, so that live and taped programming can be cablecast efficiently to Subscribers.
(7) If any unused time (fallow time) exists on the access channels and Charter or any of its affiliates desires to distribute any service over such channels during such unused time, the Grantee shall so notify the County in writing. The Access Channels, or access channel time, shall be deemed unused only if the Access Channels or access channel time has not been used for the purposes described in this section during the thirty (30) day period immediately preceding the date of the notice described in the foregoing sentence. Charter’s notice to the County shall describe Charter’s or its affiliate’s plans for use of the access channels. Charter or its affiliate may commence the distribution of the planned service over the access channels at the end of the thirtieth (30th) day after receipt of such notice, unless within such thirty (30) day period the County notifies the Grantee in writing th...
Access Channels. (A) Grantee intends to continue to provide community messages on one (1) of its existing video programming channels. Grantee shall allow the Town to place its community messages on that shared channel, and to utilize that channel to broadcast Government Access programming. Should Grantee decide to discontinue the shared channel for community messages, Grantee will provide the Town with sixty (60) days advance written notice of the channel discontinuance.
(B) Upon 120 days written notice from the Town, after the completion of construction of a Fiber Optic return line pursuant to Section 9.3 and once the equipment in connection therewith is made operational, Grantee shall make available to Town 1 Downstream Channel for PEG use, as provided for in this Section.
1. The Town may delegate management of the PEG Access Channels to a Designated Access Provider.
2. All PEG Access Channels provided for in this Agreement shall be carried system-wide in the Franchise Area, and shall be provided on the Basic Service tier unless otherwise agreed to by the parties.
3. The technical quality of the PEG Access Channels shall not be lower than the quality of other Channels on the same tier of service, at the same technical quality that programming is provided to Grantee by the Town or its Designated Access Provider.
4. The Town shall establish and enforce rules for use of the PEG Access Channels to assure nondiscriminatory access to the Channels to similarly situated users; and to promote use and viewership of the channels, consistent with applicable law. PEG Access Channels may not be used for commercial purposes.
5. Grantee may not exercise any editorial control over the content of programming on the PEG Access Channels.
Access Channels. Franchisee shall within six months, upon the written request of the City, provide access channels as specified below:
1. No less than one (1) downstream channel for educational access for the City.
2. No less than one (1) dedicated downstream channel solely for government access for the City.
Access Channels.
(A) Grantee shall continue to provide at no charge upon acceptance of this Franchise, and throughout the term of this Franchise, One (1) Channel for use by Grantor and One (1) Channel for use by the RCC (said Channels to be capable of cablecasting both live and recorded programming only within the geographic territory of Grantor).
(B) All assigned Access Channels can be used to transmit programming in any format which is technically compatible with the Cable System, including, by way of example and not limitation, video, audio only, secondary audio and/or text (character generated) messages. Such uses must be in furtherance of Access purposes. Each of the above Channels may be digitized by the Grantee and must be capable of transmitting one digital video signal. Any Access Channels provided via digital or compressed video technology shall have at least the same transmission quality as is used to carry any of the commercial Channels that deliver programming on the System and shall be full motion video. The provision of Access Channels via digital or compressed video technology will not reduce the total Access Channel requirement herein.
Access Channels. The Grantee shall provide to each of its Subscribers who receive Cable Service offered on the Cable System, reception on at least one specially designated access channel. Grantee shall establish rules for the administration of the specially designated access channel, unless such channel is administered by the Franchising Authority. Grantee shall make readily available for public use at least the minimal equipment necessary for the production of programming and playback of prerecorded programs for the access channel in Grantee’s sole discretion.
Access Channels. Franchisee shall use its best efforts to maintain the number and channel position of the access channels as shown in Appendix J, attached hereto and incorporated by reference. Franchisee shall provide the following number of dedicated access channels: three (3) channels for government access; two (2) channels for educational access; one (1) channel for public access; and one (1) channel for Kirkwood Community College. Upon the City's request, Franchisee shall activate the following additional access channels on the basic tier; one (1) channel for community programming and/or access and one (1) channel for educational access. Upon the request of the City, whenever any public access channels as set forth in this section shows documented proof of performance that they are in use 80% of the cablecast week for any 6 week consecutive timeframe, given at least 8 hours per day, 7 days per week cablecast schedule, with at least 80% (of the time the channel is programmed), unduplicated locally originated programming, the Franchisee shall make such additional access channels) available as necessary for access use within 6 months of receipt of request by the City. The City agrees to share the above listed access channels with other communities served by the same headend on a switched basis. Franchisee shall provide automatic switching from a site selected by the City for any switching needed by the City to allow City programming to be viewed within the City while other communities may be viewing other governmental programs. Other communities, such as Coralville, served by the same headend shall have remote switching capability to allow programming to be viewed within their respective municipalities while Iowa City programming continues to be viewed within the City of Iowa City. In the spectrum between 550 MHz and 750 MHz, and if Franchisee expands bandwidth, the City reserves ten percent of the bandwidth for public, educational and government access use up to 100 analog channels. Such bandwidth will be made available within six (6) months of a request by the City. The City shall make such request when the governmental, educational, and/or public access entities have demonstrated to the City that such additional capacity is needed and usage meets the formula for bandwidth activation specified above. Such additional capacity shall be dedicated for the type of access specified by the City. All active access channels shall be placed on the basic tier of service, unless bo...
Access Channels. The Grantee shall make available to the City the public, educational and governmental (PEG) access channels as specified in this Section.
(1) The Grantee shall continue to make available to the City (1) access channel for City non-commercial uses and purposes, at no cost to the City.
(2) The Grantee shall continue to make available to the Unified School District No. 497, (USD #497), one (1) access channel for USD #497 non- commercial uses and purposes.
(3) By January 1, 2000, the Grantee shall make available to University of Kansas one (1) access channel for University of Kansas non-commercial uses and purposes.
(4) By January 1, 2000, the Grantee shall make available to the Xxxxxxx Indian Nations University (Xxxxxxx) one (1) access channel for Xxxxxxx non- commercial uses and purposes. The above four (4) access channels shall be of the same quality as other channels of the cable system. Grantee shall not charge the City, USD #497, the University of Kansas or Xxxxxxx for such access. Grantee shall serve as Designated Access Manager for public use of access channels.
Access Channels. As of the Effective Date, Grantee shall provide two (2) Access Channels, which shall be allocated as follows: one (1) Government Access Channel and one (1) Educational Access Channel. All assigned Access Channels can be used to transmit signals in any format, which is technically compatible with the Cable System, including, by way of example and not limitation, video, audio, secondary audio and/or text messages. Such uses must be in furtherance of Access purposes.
Access Channels. (1) The Franchisee shall continue to provide and maintain channels, facilities, personnel, and financial support for Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) use at least to the same extent as was being provided on the last day of the Prior Franchise, and existing studios and equipment and additionally within one (1) year of the effective date of this Franchise, Franchisee shall to the extent funds are available provide funding for equipment purchases for PEG use.
(2) In the event Franchisee increases the channel capacity of its System beyond the minimum required hereunder, in addition to the requirements of subsection (a)(1), the City may require the Franchisee to make available one (1) additional standard (6 MHz) video channel for public, educational, or governmental programming, provided the City requests such channel within ninety (90) days of written notice from Franchisee of the capacity increase.
(3) The Franchisee shall provide upstream channels for PEG use. Any reference to an upstream or downstream channel for PEG use refers to a 6 MHz channel; an access channel may be used to provide one (1) or more channels of service.
Access Channels. Pursuant to Section 1-12-6.H.5 of the Ordinances of the City of Xxxxxxxx, the City and Grantee agree that the initial number of local access stations required to be provided by Grantee shall be two. The need for further access channels shall be determined pursuant to Section 1-12-6.H.2 of the Ordinances of the City of Xxxxxxxx. Local access channels shall be on the basic tier of programming in Moorhead. If the provision of Minnesota state law requiring one local access channel to be on the VHF spectrum has not been superseded by federal law, Grantee shall provide at least one full channel on the VHF spectrum for local access programming, with the City having the choice of which local access channel shall be in the VHF spectrum. If permitted by federal law, Xxxxxxx agrees that should another cable television franchise be granted by the City, the City, Grantee, and the grantee for the second cable television franchise shall negotiate as to whether or not a specific channel shall be designated on both cable systems for one local access channel.
