(A) A cable system of a company granted a franchise hereunder shall have a minimum system capacity of at least 550 MHZ or 77 full video channel equivalent and a minimum capacity no less than any other cable system franchise then held by such company or by any entity controlling it, controlled by it or under the same common control as such company for any municipality within Shelby County, Tennessee or any unincorporated area of Shelby County.
(B) The system shall maintain a plant having the technical capacity for “two-way” communications.
(C) A company shall maintain the following:
(1) At least one specially-designated, noncommercial public access channel available on a first- come, nondiscriminatory basis;
(2) At least one specially-designated channel for educational access;
(3) At least one specially-designated channel for local governmental uses;
(4) Leased access made available in accordance with federal law;
(5) An Institutional Network (I-Net) of cable, optical, electrical or electronic equipment, including cable television systems, used for the purpose of transmitting cable signals interconnecting designated buildings or places to be determined by the Town and incorporated into a franchise;
(6) Provided, however, these uses may be combined on one or more channels until such time as additional channels become necessary in the opinion of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the Town.
(D) A company shall incorporate into its cable system the capacity which will permit the Town, in times of emergency, to override, by remote control, the audio of all channels which a company may lawfully override simultaneously. The Town shall designate one of the three channels referenced in § 118.64 hereof for emergency broadcasts of both audio and video. A company shall cooperate with the Town in the use and operation of the emergency alert override system.
(E) (1) A company may be required to interconnect its system with systems. Such interconnection shall be made within the time limit established by the Town.
(2) Upon receiving the directive of the Town to interconnect, a company shall immediately initiate negotiations with the other affected system or systems in order that all costs may be shared equally among cable companies for both construction and operation of the interconnection link.
(3) A company may be granted reasonable extensions of time to interconnect or the Town may rescind its order to interconnect upon petition by a company to the Town. The Town shall grant the request if it finds that a company has negotiated in good faith and has failed to obtain an approval from the operator or franchising authority of a system to be interconnected or the cost of the interconnection would cause an unreasonable or unacceptable increase in subscriber rates.
(4) A company shall cooperate with any interconnection corporation, regional interconnection authority or Town, county, state and federal regulatory agency which may be hereafter established for the purpose of regulating, financing or otherwise providing for the interconnection of cable systems beyond the boundaries of the Town.
(5) Initial technical requirements to assure future interconnection capability are as follows:
(a) All companies receiving franchises to operate within the Town shall use the standard frequency allocations for television signals;
(b) All companies are required to use in the cable systems signal processors at the head end for each television signal;
(c) The Town also urges a company to provide local origination equipment that is compatible throughout the area so that video cassettes or videotapes can be shared by various systems.
(`83 Code, § 13-534)