A franchisee shall install and thereafter maintain an Emergency Alert System ("EAS"). This EAS shall be designed and operated to meet or exceed all FCC standards and requirements as may be amended from time to time.
A. 
The franchisee shall reserve for the nonexclusive use by the Township and the Downingtown Area School District, without charge, a minimum of one six-megahertz downstream channel for public, educational, and governmental use, to subscribers delivering a signal the technical quality of which is equivalent to the technical quality of other channels on the broadband system. The franchisee shall provide all modulators, demodulators, laser transmitters/receivers and other devices as may be required to permit use of the downstream capacity.
B. 
The franchisee and the Township shall evaluate at minimum intervals of no greater than once every five years the need for the provision of additional access channels for use by the Township and the Downingtown Area School District without charge. Each reevaluation shall consider, but shall not be limited to, the reservation by the franchisee of the amount of capacity required to transmit one six-megahertz channel upstream, for public, educational and governmental use, the provision by the franchisee of all modulators, demodulators, laser transmitters/receivers, and other devices as may be required to permit use of the upstream capacity, and such modifications as may be required to use video compression technology and add such equipment in connection with all or part of the upstream and downstream channel capacity for public, educational, and governmental use. When additional access channels are deemed necessary by the Township after an evaluation, the franchisee shall reserve the same for public, educational, and/or governmental use.
The franchisee and the Township shall evaluate at minimum intervals of no greater than once every five years the need for the provision of one public access facility located within the Township or at such location designated by the Township, which facility shall include an adequate studio, editing suites, control room, playback area, administrative and training space, tape, set, and equipment storage space, and all property shall be secured, ventilated, air conditioned, heated, lighted, wired, and accessible to the handicapped. It shall also provide equipment to fully equip the facility, including the studio, separate portable equipment suitable for community use, automated playback equipment, and control facilities, so that signals can be received on the upstream channels or originated from the facility, and then routed from the facility to the broadband system headend and onto appropriate channels on the broadband system. When the provision of the public access facility is deemed necessary by the Township after an evaluation, the franchisee shall provide the same in accordance with this section.
A. 
The franchisee and the Township shall evaluate at minimum intervals of no greater than once every five years the need for the provision of upstream channel capacity for live telecasts from such public buildings as may be specified in the franchise agreement. When the provision of upstream capacity is deemed necessary by the Township after evaluation, the franchisee shall provide such capacity.
B. 
Upon the provision of remote live telecasting, the franchisee shall make available all devices necessary to accomplish upstream telecasts through such public facilities.
The Township acknowledges that a franchisee is entitled to pass through to basic subscribers the increased costs incurred in providing any of the foregoing facilities and services which may be required by the Township in the future. To the extent Township approval is required for any such basic rate adjustment, franchisee shall be under no obligation to provide such facilities or services until such approval is granted.