The grantee shall maintain throughout the term of the franchise the
number of channels specified to be initially activated in the franchise agreement.
The grantee shall also activate additional channel capacity as required by
public access or institutional users. The grantee shall continually upgrade
the system's facilities, equipment, and service pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the franchise agreement.
The grantee's proposal may describe, in detail, the rotation of its
head end, hubs, distribution system, studios, equipment and other facilities
and a plan for implementing the construction, utilization and maintenance
of those facilities, including plans for accommodating future growth and changing
needs and desires of the community as determined by the City.
The grantee's proposal may designate all publicly owned buildings in
the City (City Hall, Police Department, Fire Department, schools, library,
etc.) and any buildings owned or leased for governmental use by any state,
federal or local government in the City, to which the grantee will provide
service. The provisions for such service shall be described in detail and
shall be provided without charge. The grantee's proposal may include in such
designation plans for existing as well as future publicly owned buildings.
The grantee's proposal may describe the means and manner of providing
community-specific cablecasting over the system and the time of activation
and points of delivery.
Unless otherwise provided in its franchise agreement, the grantee shall
design and construct a system so that A and B cables (serving residential
and institutional users) accommodate interactive data communications and so
that the total network transmission time is less than one-tenth of a second.
Further, the system shall accommodate interactive communications of point-to-point,
point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-multipoint communications between subscribers
or potential subscribers.
Unless otherwise provided in its franchise agreement, in case of any
emergency or disaster, the grantee shall make its entire system available,
without charge, to the City or to any other governmental or civil defense
agency that the City may designate. The system shall be engineered to provide
an audio alert system to allow authorized officials to override automatically
the audio signals on all channels and to transmit and report emergency information.
The system shall also have the capability for visual transmission of emergency
messages.