If any public, governmental or educational access channel is cablecasting locally produced, non-duplicative programming Monday through Friday for eight consecutive hours for ten consecutive weeks, a franchisee shall report that fact to the Cablecasting Board. For purposes of this threshold, character generator programming shall not qualify. The Cablecasting Board shall investigate the need for the addition of a new channel or channels and file its recommendations with the Village Council. After review of the Cablecasting Board report, the Village Council may, in its discretion, require a franchisee to make a new channel available within six months for any or all of the uses and under the conditions specified in §§ 113.072, 113.076, 113.078 113.079. Nothing in this section shall interfere with a franchisee's right to add additional channels of the type described in such sections, provided that such channels are operated in a manner consistent with those sections. Should a franchisee choose to add such additional channels, it shall notify the Village Council, in writing, of its intention, its plan and its timetable for doing so.
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