O-1980-1175 cable TV franchise (2 readings)

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Ordinance No. 1175, Page 4. • of this franchise. N. "Grantee Channels" shall mean the Channels on the CATV System which are reserved for carriage of program material origi- nated locally by Grantee. O. "Gross Revenues" shall mean all revenues collected by the Grantee, including, but not limited to, Regular Subscriber Revenues, Pay Television Revenues, Additional Services Revenues, advertising revenues and fees received for lease of Channels. Gross Revenues shall not include the following: (1) any taxes which are imposed on any Subscriber or User of CATV System by any • governmental unit and collected by Grantee for such governmental unit; (2) revenues resulting from connection or reconnection fees of any kind; (3) revenues resulting from the sale or rental of equipment of any kind; and (4) revenues resulting from the studio production of programming used on the Educational Access or Public Access Channels or the lease of such Channels. P. "Pay Television" shall mean the delivery over the CATV System of programming to Subscribers for a fee or charge over and above the charge for Regular Subscriber Service, on a per -program, per -Channel or other subscription basis. Q. "Person" shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind. R. "Public Access Channels" shall mean Channels on the CATV System which are reserved for carriage of program material in the public interest provided by persons who obtain use of such Channels from Grantee for the presentation of such material. S. "Public Utility Commission of Texas" or "PUC" shall mean that agency as presently constituted by the laws of the State of Texas or any successor agency. T. "Regular Subscriber Service" shall mean the simultan- eous delivery by Grantee to television receivers, or any other