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~.. <br />that at the present time Alert serves both Hillsborough and Car <br />Carolina Cable (formerly Village Cable) serves the city of Cha el "`'~ <br />the County of Orange. rboro 'an'd <br />The County has cable TV franchise agreements with p Hz11 and <br />Cable and Alert Cable. Carolina Cable's both Carolina <br />the majority of the land area within the County while the a ream <br />Alert limits expansion beyond the numbe franchise agreement encompasses <br />in November, 1980• On June r of homes connected to itsensys~~m <br />Commissioners a re ~-~~ 1986 Alert presented to the Board of <br />ermit a quest to amend its existin <br />reactivatedrtheeCableoTVuCitizenoAdv~e <br />Alert's expansion request. ~sory <br />The Committee recommended that <br />the existing franchise that Carolina <br />provisions would be necessary for, this <br />Density requirement - 30 <br />Two way cable capability <br />400 Mhz capable <br />- Local on i t <br />more Countyrresidents~grTheeBoard <br />Committee to assist in assessing <br />Alert's franchise be comparable to <br />Cable was given. The following <br />to occur: <br />homes per mile <br />No re g na ion and public access programming <br />- cluirement of overbuilding <br />Minimum technical standard offered by cable company <br />Minimum Technical Standards _ <br />Frequency Accuracy <br />Frequency Stability (3 hours) +5 khz <br />.~ 24 hour Signal Level Stability +5o Khz <br />Overall Difference in Signal Level 6dB <br />Hum Modulations 6dB <br />System Carrier to Noise ~'~ <br />Terminal Isolation 4odB <br />Cross Modulation 30dB <br />Composite Triple Beat 51dB <br />Second Order Intermodulation 53dB <br />60dB <br />Vogel continued his presentation stating that originall Vil <br />had anon-exclusive franchise, <br />superb system in the Count Carolina Cable built and installedeaCvery <br />required to match the Y and the committee recommended that Alert be <br />order to be given a favorable of that system built b <br />revised its g~ judgment in this matter.CaAler~a Cablee has <br />comparable offeringnto CarolinalCablereb <br />Y they now have a substantially <br />Discussion ensued on the sharing of those <br />interest to the citizens of Oran a count programs that ma <br />that cooperation between the two companiesyneedsmtosoccurratartwell rbiated <br />are granted permission to televise from the same the time both <br />Vogel indicated he doesn't know how this cooperationhcanlberha• <br />the present time. <br />Chair Marshall andled at <br />caoperation between theutworcompaniesmissioner Hartwell's <br />Doug Keel with remarks on <br />televised from the ArtSchool andlthatxthelsame ethat <br />televising Board meetings from the same location, programming will be <br />Chair Marshall asked about the interru t~ quzpment would facilitate <br />Hillsborough and Keel indicated that the p ~'°ns that frequently occur in <br />corrected. problems are bein <br />Commissioner Hartwell stressed the importance g ~.dentified and <br />there is something that is of <br />Count p prime interest to all the citizenstognOrange <br />Y• Keel ex lamed there is already some sharing of <br />that he would be willing to work with Carolina Cable o <br />programming and <br />n joint projects, <br />