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990375
| 1 | | Transfer of Control over Cable Franchisee | Resolution | Passed | Resolution approving transfer of control over Television Signal Corporation, San Francisco cable television franchise grantee, from Telecommunications, Inc. to AT&T Corporation upon certain conditions. | CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR | Pass |
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990376
| 1 | | Cable Television Franchise Amendments | Ordinance | Passed | Ordinance amending Ordinance 105-64, as amended most recently by Ordinance No. 42-97, by amending Section 25 regarding grantee's rebuild of the San Francisco Cable System, by adding Sections 25.1 through 25.5 regarding grantee's obligations to provide open access to its cable modem platform, to limit rebuild rate increases, to provide cable modem service to libraries, to provide a subscriber benefit during the rebuild, and to construct the rebuilt system in compliance with federal, state and local requirements, by adding Section 32.12(e) regarding grantee's obligation to pay franchise fees on cable modem services by amending Section24(a)(ii) regarding grantee's obligation to wire certain buildings, by amending Sections 27.1 through 27.3 regarding grantee's transfer of management and control of the public access station to the community television Corporation, by amending Section 30 regarding subscriber passthroughs, by amending Section 31(a) and definitions in Sections 32.10, and 32.18, and by adding Sections 31(i), 31(j), 32.22, 32.23, and 32.24 to further clarify grantee's obligati | CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR | Pass |
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990455
| 2 | | High-Speed Broadband Networks | Resolution | Passed | Resolution urging the City Attorney and the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services to monitor legislative, regulatory and judicial developments in the California Legislature, Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Courts addressing access to high-speed cable and other high-speed broadband networks; to take all possible action to ensure that Congress, the Legislature and/or the Federal Communications Commission adopt policies that protect consumers' access to a choice of Internet and other on-line service providers and to all forms of information over the Internet and over high-speed broadband networks; and to support the authority of cities to require cable companies to provide non-discriminatory access by unaffiliated Internet and other on-line providers to the broadband cable network by filing an amicus brief in support of the City of Portland's open access requirement in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. | AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE | |
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990455
| 3 | | High-Speed Broadband Networks | Resolution | Passed | Resolution urging the City Attorney and the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services to monitor legislative, regulatory and judicial developments in the California Legislature, Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Courts addressing access to high-speed cable and other high-speed broadband networks; to take all possible action to ensure that Congress, the Legislature and/or the Federal Communications Commission adopt policies that protect consumers' access to a choice of Internet and other on-line service providers and to all forms of information over the Internet and over high-speed broadband networks; and to support the authority of cities to require cable companies to provide non-discriminatory access by unaffiliated Internet and other on-line providers to the broadband cable network by filing an amicus brief in support of the City of Portland's open access requirement in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. | RECOMMENDED AS AMENDED | Pass |
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991050
| 1 | | Future Status of Programming on Public Access Channel | Hearing | Filed | Hearing to consider public testimony about the future status of programming on the Public Access, Education, and Government Cable TV Channels, specifically, programming entitled "The California Channel" and "Kaleidoscope", both of which are currently aired on the Public Access Channel (Channel #53). The San Francisco Community Television Channel (CTC) has submitted an operations plan that proposes to increase the airing of Public Access programming to 24 hours per day. The Channel currently airs non-public access programming from 5:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays. CTC's proposal, if approved, would displace the current daytime programming. This hearing is in response to the Telecommunications Commission's Resolution #99-013 which asks the Board to consider whether the programming entitled The California Channel and Kaleidoscope should be removed from the air, relocated to the Government Channel (Citywatch #54), relocated to the Education Channel (#52), or remain on the Public Access Channel (#53). | CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR | Pass |
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990477
| 1 | | Public Access, Educational and Government Cable Channels | Hearing | Filed | Hearing to consider funding and management of Public Access, Educational and Government (PEG) cable channels. | CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR | Pass |
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991178
| 1 | | Cable Access Channel Management Services | Resolution | Passed | Resolution supporting the continued management of the government cable access channel, Citywatch, by the nonprofit corporation known as the San Francisco Community Television Corporation (CTC) and urging the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) to continue the personal services contract with CTC to provide management services. | CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR | Pass |
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