City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2002-0669

• File #: 2002-0669
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Died due to expiration of legislative council session
• File created: 6/25/2002
• In control: Committee on General Services, Technology & the Arts
• Final action: 12/31/2003
• Title: Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Chapter 425 Cable Communications by requiring that the Franchisee agrees not to enter into, either directly or through affiliates or partnerships, an agreement with a programming service or broadcast station.
• Sponsors: Gene Ricciardi
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 04 - PUBLIC PLACES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/3/2002	1	Committee on General Services, Technology & the Arts	Referred for Report and Recommendation	Pass
6/25/2002	1	City Council	Read and referred

.Presenter

Presented by Mr. Peduto

Title

Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Chapter 425 Cable Communications by requiring that the Franchisee agrees not to enter into, either directly or through affiliates or partnerships, an agreement with a programming service or broadcast station.

Body

Whereas, the City seeks to foster a competitive environment for the provision of video services by ensuring that Franchisee's competitors have non-discriminatory access to all video programming.

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1                     Supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Chapter 425 Cable Communications by requiring that the Franchisee agrees not to enter into, either directly or through affiliates or partnerships, an agreement with a programming service or broadcast station.

a.                     the exclusive distribution or retransmission of programming by the franchisee within any area of the City;

b.                     a refusal by the programming service or broadcast station to negotiate in good faith a reasonable agreement to license programming on nondiscriminatory terms and conditions with a competing multichannel provider in the City; or

c.                     equipment, protocol, or other technical agreements that prevent or have the of preventing access to programming by a competing multichannel provider.