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791.06 SCOPE OF OPERATIONS.
   In addition to conventional services currently being offered by operating community antenna television systems, including the signals of TV and FM stations and also programming originated by the operators, this chapter, anticipating the future of a "Wired City", specifically covers the following:
   (a)   Pay television, programming for which a special or extra fee is charged, if not prohibited by the Federal Communications Commission, and if such service is offered by the operator.
   (b)   The sale of advertising in connection with locally originated programming, if such sales are authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, and if such sales are made by the operator.
   (c)   Any other service or services involving the use of electronic signals if authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and if such additional services are offered by the operator.
(Ord. 77-75. Passed 6-9-75.)
791.07 RATES FOR SERVICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
   (a)   The rates for basic service and such ancillary services as may from time to time be provided by the operator shall be determined by marketplace considerations. The operator shall file a schedule of all of its rates with the City prior to the effective date of such rates, of the commencement of a new service, or of a change in established rates and prior to the notification to subscribers of such rates or rate change.
   (b)   Optional services of a noncontinuous nature, such as individual movies, sports events, education programs, etc., may have variable rates and are exempt from filing requirements.
   (c)   At such time as the operator attains a penetration level of eighty percent (80%), the City may regulate the rates charged by such operator. The term "penetration level" as used herein, means the ratio of the number of basic service subscribers to the total number of households passed by the operator's cable system.
   (d)   The operator shall not charge subscribers' rates in excess of the filed rates for any service requiring filing of rates, and the operator agrees that rates for services in the City will not exceed those rates charged in the City of Columbus.
(Ord. 100-82. Passed 11-22-82.)
791.08 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.
   (a)   The operator, in compliance with current rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, shall afford full time, nonduplicated carriage to WBNS-TV, WLWC-TV, WOSU-TV and WTVN-TV and to any other television station licensed to the City of Columbus by the FCC and which goes on the air.
   (b)   It is the intent of this section to require the carriage outlined in subsection (a) hereof, which shall be without the degrading of signals and without deletion of advertising or any material contained in such telecasts, even though the Federal Communications Commission at some future date might amend or even eliminate rules and regulations applicable to carriage and protection of local stations. Therefore, this particular provision shall remain in force so long as there are no laws, rules or regulations prohibiting such carriage, and so long as the operator is not forbidden to do so by the stations involved.
(Ord. 77-75. Passed 6-9-75.)
791.09 SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
   Taking into account certain additional services which, to be successful, necessarily would have to cross corporate lines of many Greater Columbus municipalities, and considering these services to be in the public interest, and not wanting to curtail their development, the following services are specifically exempted from licensing requirements and excluded from fee payments to the City, so long as such services are offered by an operator holding a permit under City ordinance.
   (a)   Services created primarily for area hotels and motels, and utilized as a promotional information vehicle for Greater Columbus, reaching only guests in participating hotels and motels.
   (b)   Services created for special and/or occasional closed circuit presentations, or for the viewing and/or listening of the general public.
      This particular exclusion/exemption is not applicable to any regular, continuing service or services which the operator may offer pursuant to Section 791.07(c).
   (c)   Services created for nonprofit organizations.
   (d)   The exemptions and exclusions detailed herein shall apply to both originations by the operator and to signals merely retransmitted and/or distributed by the operator.
(Ord. 77-75. Passed 6-9-75.)
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