Ord. #74, Second Series - Cable Television Franchise Ordinance (Qwest-Century Link)

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6.3 Regional Channel 6. The Grantee shall designate standard VHF Channel 6 for uniform regional channel usage to the extent required by State law. 6.4 Leased Access Channels. The Grantee shall provide Leased Access Channels as required by federal and State law. 6.5 PEG Obligations. Except as expressly provided in this Franchise,the Grantee shall not make any changes in PEG support or in the transmission, reception and carriage of PEG channels and equipment associated therewith,without the consent of the City and/or the Commission. 6.6 Costs and Payments not Franchise Fees. The parties agree that any costs to the Grantee and payments from the Grantee associated with the provision of support for PEG access, pursuant to Sections 6 and 7 of this Franchise do not constitute and are not part of a franchise fee and fall within one or more of the exceptions to 47 U.S.C. § 542. If the incumbent franchised cable operator agrees to provide any support of the Access Channels in excess of the amount identified above or to any payment in support of any other PEG-related commitment after the Effective Date of this Franchise, the Commission, in its reasonable discretion, after meeting with the Grantee, will determine whether Grantee's PEG Fee should be changed. If Grantee is required to pay any additional PEG Fee, such amount must be based upon a per subscriber/per month fee. SECTION 7. INSTITUTIONAL NETWORK(I-NET)PROVISIONS AND RELATED COMMITMENTS 7.1 Twin Cities Metro PEG Interconnect Network. Grantee shall provide a discrete,non-public, video interconnect network, from an agreed upon demarcation point at the Commission's Master Control Center at the Commission's office,to Grantee's headend. The video interconnect network shall not exceed 50 Mbps of allocated bandwidth, allowing PEG operators that have agreed with Grantee to share (send and receive) live and recorded programming for playback on their respective systems. Where available the Grantee shall provide the video interconnect network and the network equipment necessary, for the high-priority transport of live multicast HD/SD video streams as well as lower-priority file-sharing. Grantee shall provide 50 Mbps bandwidth for each participating PEG entity to send its original programming, receive at least two additional multicast HD/SD streams from any other participating PEG entity, 32