(A) If permissible under state and federal law, all video service providers shall provide at no initial or recurring charge the basic service tier of video service to one outlet and one receiving device at each building occupied by the City that is not more than 200 feet from the nearest technically and commercially feasible point of connection on the video service network. The City shall designate the building in writing to the video service provider.
(B) A video service provider shall provide channel capacity to transmit programming over which the video service provider exercises no editorial control, except as authorized by 47 U.S.C. § 531. At the City’s election, the channel capacity shall be limited to one of the following:
(1) Not more than two channels of public, educational, or governmental access programming in the basic service tier of the video service network and not more than two channels of noncommercial governmental programming, at least one of which may be programmed by the federal government, in the digital programming tier of the video service network; or
(2) Not more than two lines of access programming with each line of programming carried on up to two standard definition channels and two switched digital high-definition channels.
(C) Unless specifically preempted by state or federal law, none of the annual fair market value of any channel capacity provided pursuant to section (B) above may be offset against the license fee set forth in § 112.13.
(D) A video service provider shall regularly display an unobtrusive logo or other suitable identifier of the video service provider on public, educational, or governmental access channels.
(E) A video service provider shall pay all costs and expenses to provide, maintain, and operate facilities and equipment of the video service network, including facilities and equipment for signal carriage, processing, reformatting, and interconnection for all of the following: to connect the video service network or cable system, as it may be relocated from time to time, to transmit programming to and from existing locations of public, educational, or governmental access facilities and to allow monitoring of access programming at the facilities; and to transmit public, educational, and governmental access channels to subscribers with the same prevailing quality, functionality, and identification as other channels.
(Prior Code, § 24-1-14) (Ord. 19-26, passed 12-9-2019)