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RESOLUTION NO. 6495
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH ADOPTING RULES AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE OPERATION OF COMMUNITY ANTENNA
TELEVISION SYSTEMS WITHIN THE CITY
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• WHEREAS, Section 5.44.165 of the Newport Beach Municipal
Code relating to community antenna television systems provides
that the City Council may adopt rules and regulations consistent
with the provisions of Chapter 5.44 of the Municipal Code and that
such rules and regulations shall apply to and shall govern the
operations of the grantee of any community antenna television
franchise; and
WHEREAS, on December 27, 1966, the City Council adopted
Resolution No. 6488 declaring its intention to hold a public hear-
ing on January 9, 1967, for the purpose of considering the adoption
of proposed rules and regulations concerning the operations of
community antenna television systems within the City of Newport
Beach set out therein; and
WHEREAS, said resolution of intention was published and
distributed and the public hearing was held as required by said
Section 5.44.165;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the following are
adopted as the rules and regulations governing the operation of
community antenna television systems in the City:
Rule 1. Customer Complaint Procedure
The grantee of any CATV franchise that provides service
to subscribers within the City shall establish procedures
which insure prompt determination of the cause of reception
problems brought to the attention of the grantee by sub-
scriber complaints. Any such grantee shall have primary
responsibility for taking appropriate corrective action
whenever faulty or defective performance is detected in
any part of the system between the antenna to a subscriber's
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television receiver. A grantee shall not refer a subscriber
to his local television repair service upon first receiving
a complaint unless it clearly appears that the cause of the
reception problem is attributable to the subscriber's
television receiver.
0 Rule 2. Interference with CATV Reception by Ambient
If a subscriber experiences interference caused by
ambient signals after connection of his television receiver
with a CATV system operating under a City franchise, the
grantee of such franchise shall be obligated either to
provide technical corrective measures to eliminate the
interference or to disconnect the television receiver and
refund the installation costs to the subscriber.
Rule 3. CATV System Performance Monitoring
In order to insure maintenance of required operating
standards each grantee of a CATV franchise shall perform
or cause to be performed the following tests and shall
furnish the City Manager with certified written reports
of the resultsa
(1) Monthly Tests
The following tests shall be performed at five
separated geographical points within the franchise
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(a) Signal strength
At the input to the matching transformer of
the television receiver (75 ohm impedance), the
signal level shall be measured at the picture car-
rier mid - frequency of each television channel with
a field strength meter (Jerrold Model 704 -B or equal).
The signal level for each channel shall be a minimum
of 1000 microvolts.
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(b) Visual degradation
An appropriate test pattern from a test gen-
erator shall be inserted at the antenna output and
the picture on the television receiver shall be
. checked visually for ringing, smear, streaking, hum,
reflections, loss of resolution or contrast and beats
from spurious or adjacent channel signals.
(2) Semi - Annual Tests
The following tests shall be conducted at the sub-
scriber end of all system trunk lines to provide a
comprehensive test of whether the system is continu-
ing to meet original standards-
(a) Distribution system frequency response
By means of a wide band sweep generator
(Jerrold Model. 900 -B or equal), a broad band signal
covering the VHF television band shall be inserted at
the input to the first system trunk amplifier with a
signal amplitude level equal to the average levels
introduced when fed from the antenna through the head
end signal processing equipment. With a broad band
detector (Jerrold Model D Series or equal) and oscil-
loscope, the frequency response at the subscriber end
of any trunk line shall be checked. The frequency
response shall be within + 3db.
(b) Signal to noise ratio
At the input to each television channel head
end signal processor, a continuous wave signal shall
be inserted with one (1) millivolt RMS amplitude at
each channel picture frequency. The signal level at
the end of any trunk line shall then be checked with
0 a Field Strength Meter tuned to each mid - channel
picture carrier in turn. Then, with no input signal,
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the field strength test shall be repeated. During the
test no channel must produce a difference in readings
between signal and no signal conditions of less than
46 decibels.
. (c) AC (hum) modulation
At the input to each television channel head
end signal processor, a CW signal with an amplitude
equal to the average antenna output operating level
and a frequency equal to the picture carrier shall be
inserted. Then, by means of an RF detector and oscil-
loscope used at the subscriber end of any trunk line,
the average DC level shall be checked. The peak to
peak variation of the displayed signal must be less
than five percent (5 %) of the DC level.
(d) Inter - channel distortion
While all other channels are operating nor-
mally, the antenna output from one channel shall be
disconnected and an unmodulated RF signal at the
carrier frequency shall be substituted in that channel
input. A blank white picture must appear on the
screen of any television receiver or monitor turned
to said channel, with no visible interference components.
This test shall be repeated for each channel in
turn.
The full costs of the foregoing tests shall be borne
by the franchise grantees for their respective systems, in-
cluding reimbursement to the City for the cost of providing
an inspector of the City's choice to witness the conducting
of the tests.
If deviations from the required standards are disclosed
by the tests, the grantee shall take immediate action to
correct any such deviations and complete the corrective
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measures within ten (10) days unless additional time is
allowed by the City Manager pursuant to a written request
from a grantee,
ADOPTED this 9th day of January, 1967.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUN'T'Y OF ORANGE )
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH)
I. LAURA LAGIOS, Acting City Clerk of the City of Newport
Beach, California, do hereby certify that according to the records of the
City of Newport Beach filed and maintained in my office, the foregoing
Resolution No. 6495 was duly and regularly.adopted,
passed, and approved by the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach, California, at a regular meeting of said City Council held at the
regular meeting place thereof, on the 9th day of January
19675 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Rogers, Parsons, Marshall, Gruber, Cook, Forgit,
Shelton
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None
Dated this 23rd day of
City Council, City of Newport Mach,
State of California.
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