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• Two PEG channels continue to be required—one programmed areawide by the Commission, and one narrowcast for individualized programming within each member city. Existing live origination sites are retained. • Within 120 days, the areawide channel must be made available in HD. Thereafter, when substantially all other channels are in HD, the city channels must be available in HD. • The Franchise Fee remains at 5% of gross revenues. The PEG Fee remains at $.85 per sub/per mos. Even before the FCC proposed rulemaking, Charter has resisted PEG Fees of this amount in renewals. Language has been added more clearly restricting PEG Fees to capital costs consistent with GAAP, and requiring that the Commission and members also support PEG access programming at an equivalent level (presumably from Franchise Fees). • The existing service area/system extension requirements are retained. The system must be extended wherever there are at least 9 homes per 1/4 mile of new cable required to provide service. • The existing system capacity and technical requirements are retained. • There are a number of revisions in both the Franchise and Regulatory Ordinance reflecting the fact that the member cities have enacted comprehensive ROW regulatory ordinances as required by state law. These changes reflect that such ROW ordinances will control ROW management issues and that municipal authority over the ROW has not been waived or limited. We believe all or nearly all member cities have enacted such ROW ordinances. • The right to free cable service (and we have argued, free converters) has been limited to specified sites listed in Ex. A-2 to the Franchise, and generally only one converter per site will be provided. This is a compromise. • The existing $50,000 performance bond, insurance requirements, indemnification obligations, and Franchise enforcement mechanisms remain essentially unchanged. • The existing customer service obligations have been streamlined, however we believe all rights to address current, relevant customer concerns remain. • The renewal includes new "Equal Protection" language (Reg. Ord., Sec. 14.4). To summarize, this language will require that any competitive cable provider be subjected to essentially the same obligations and commitments and will give Charter more extensive rights to enforce this requirement. RJV-254155v1 2 SH255-1