Ord. #71, Second Series - Franchise Ordinance Amendment

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ORDINANCE #71, Second Series CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT The City of Centerville(the"City") ordains as follows: Section 1. Section 2.4, entitled"Franchise Term" of the City's Cable Television Franchise Ordinance (Ord. #73), shall be amended as follows: 4. Franchise Term. Pursuant to the Franchise Settlement Agreement dated December 17,2014,this Franchise shall be in effect throu December 31, 2020 , eeffifneneing ., the E ff etive Poe s eeif oa i See fi,,, 2.1 0, unless sooner renewed, revoked or terminated as herein provided. Section 2. The following shall be added to the end of Section 6.1.2 of the City's Cable Television Franchise Ordinance: Upon 90 days' notice, Grantee will cam one of the PEG channels in a high definition (HD) format on the cable system such that the City will continue to have 6 PEG Channels; 5 carried in standard definition and 1 carried in high definition. The City represents that it has or will have available by that date sufficient local, non-character generated programming in HD format so as to provide content of value to viewers and not have a blank channel. Any time after December 16, 2015, Grantee will carry an additional PEG channel in high definition in the same manner as the first high definition channel, such that the City will continue to have 6 PEG Channels; 4 carried in standard definition and 2 carried in high definition. Grantee will deliver the high definition signal to subscribers so that it is viewable without degradation, provided that it is not required to deliver a HD PEG Channel at a resolution higher than the highest resolution used in connection with the delivery of local broadcast signals to the public. Grantee may implement HD carriage of the PEG channel in any manner (including selection of compression, utilization of IP, amount of system capacity or bandwidth, and other processing characteristics) that produces a signal as accessible, functional, useable and of a quality comparable (meaning indistinguishable to the viewer) to broadcast HD channels carried on the cable system. The HD PEG Channel will be assigned a number near the other high definition local broadcast stations if such channel positions are not already taken, or if that is not possible, near high definition news/public affairs programming channels if such channel positions are not already taken, or if not possible, as reasonably close as available channel numbering will allow.