(A) Uniform application of rates, charges and the like. The grantee shall not, as to rates, charges, services, rules or regulations, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any person, nor subject any person to any prejudice or disadvantage. This provision shall not be deemed to prohibit promotional campaigns to stimulate subscription to the network or other legitimate uses thereof, nor shall it be deemed to prohibit the establishment of a graduated scale of charges and classified rate schedules to which any customer coming within such classifications shall be entitled, provided that such schedules have been filed with the city as provided in § 116.050, nor shall it be deemed to prohibit the furnishing of services without charge or at a reduced charge to the locations specified in § 116.045(E).
(B) Fairness of accessibility. The entire network of the grantee shall be operated in a manner consistent with the principles of fairness and equal accessibility of its facilities, equipment, channels, studios and other services to all residents, businesses, public agencies or other entities having a legitimate use for the network, and no person shall be arbitrarily excluded from its use. Allocation of the use of the facilities shall be made according to the rules or decisions of the grantee and any regulatory agencies affecting the same.
(C) Subscribers’ antennas. The grantee is expressly prohibited from requiring the removal, from offering to remove or from providing any inducement for the removal of any potential or existing subscriber’s antenna as a condition for provision of service by the grantee.
(D) Sale or service of television and radio receivers. During the period of the franchise, neither the recipient of the franchise nor any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, parent organizations, officers, directors or stockholders holding 10% or more of the outstanding stock of such recipient shall, within the corporate limits of the city or within ten miles in any direction, directly or indirectly, engage in the retail sale, rental or repair of radio or television receivers, or require, encourage or recommend to any subscriber the purchase, rental or lease of radios or television sets at any specific business which rents, leases or sells radios or television sets or the utilization of the services of any special television or radio service business for the repair or maintenance of the subscriber’s receivers, either radio or television, wherever located.
(2000 Code, § 5.12.300)