The grantee shall provide a minimum operational standard as indicated below:
(A) The system shall deliver to the subscribers' terminal, a signal that is capable of producing a picture, without visual material degradation in quality.
(B) The system shall transmit or distribute signals without causing objectionable cross modulation within the cables or interfacing with other electrical or electronic networks or with the reception of other television or radio receivers in the area not connected to the network.
(C) Grantee shall construct, operate and maintain the system so as to meet the following standards at the furthest subscriber. The standards set forth shall apply and be measured at the converter output.:
(1) Carrier to Noise: 43.81 db.
(2) Composite Treble Beat: -55.0 db.
(3) Cross Modulation: -55.3 db.
(D) Grantee shall provide all technical employees with a minimum of 40 hours of technical staff training per year.
(E) The grantee shall be responsible to abate all interference arising from interfering signals of less than five volts per meter.
(F) The grantee shall be responsible for providing special testing of the system as required by the city. Cost for such special testing shall be the responsibility of the grantee.
(G) Results of any tests required by the FCC shall be filed within ten days of the conduction of such tests with the city and the Board.
(H) Grantee agrees that the technical standards set forth at division (C) above have been freely offered by grantee and grantee or any parent, subsidiary, related corporation, partner or joint venture of grantee, its parents or any of its subsidiaries will not assert and will oppose any assertion that the technical standards set forth in division (C) above are not enforceable under federal, state or local law.
('77 Code, § 11.116) (Am. Ord. 982, passed 11-9-81; Am. Ord. 1125, passed 5-27-86)