95-9685 Cable FranchiseE401934
(Published in the Salina Journal Aptd .0, 1995)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 95-9685
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4.12 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER
92-9492 GRANTING TO COMMUNICATION SERVICES, INC., OR THE LAWFUL
SUCCESSOR, TRANSFEREE, OR ASSIGN THEREOF, A FRANCHISE FOR
PROVISION OF CABLE SERVICES TO SALINA, KANSAS AND REPEALING THE
EXISTING SECTION 4.12.
Kansas:
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina,
Section 1. That Section 4.12 of Ordinance Number 92-9492 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
4.12 Subscriber Services.
a. For the period beginning on the effective date of
the Franchise through the completion of the system
upgrade required by Section 4.1 hereof: a minimum of
thirty-six (36) activated channels and twenty-six (26) basic
service channels;
b. For the period beginning on completion of the
system upgrade required by Section 4.1 hereof, through
the end of the Franchise (subject to future agreements in
light of changes in system capacity) : a minimum of
forty-five (45) activated channels and twenty-one (21) basic
service channels.
C. In addition to such other service requirements as
may be contained in this Franchise, Grantee agrees to
provide the following broad categories of services:
1. Kansas broadcast programming;
2. Kansas educational broadcast programming;
3. non -network arts/cultural programming;
4. non -network educational and informational
programming;
5. children's programming;
6. public affairs programming services which
address major local, state and federal issues of
interest to the citizens of Salina, and;
7. programming which satisfies ascertained
needs and interests of the citizens of Salina.
Nothing in subparagraphs c.1 or c. hereof shall be
read to require Grantee to carry every Kansas commercial
or educational broadcast station.
d. Grantee shall conduct subscriber surveys on a
regular basis, no less than once every three (3) years, to
determine the programming needs and interests of its
subscribers.
Section 2. That the existing Section 4.12 of Ordinance Number
92-9492 is hereby repealed.
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Section 3.
That this ordinance shall be published in
the
official
city newspaper once a
week for two consecutive weeks and shall
take
effect
and be in force after
the expiration of sixty (60) days from the
date
of its
final passage.
( SEAL)
ATTEST:
SCJ
ung, Cit Jerk
Introduced: April 3, 1995
Second Reading: April 10, 1995
Passed: April 17, 1995
ose A. Warner, Mayor