THOUSAND OAKS : Council May Extend Cable TV Contracts
Faced with a year-end deadline for renewing franchise agreements with Falcon and Ventura County Cablevision, the Thousand Oaks City Council on Tuesday will consider extending current contracts six months.
Council members Alex Fiore and Jaime Zukowski, who form the Cable TV Franchise Renewal Committee, are recommending the six-month extension to give negotiations more time.
City staff has been working since July, 1992, to write acceptable agreements with both Falcon and Ventura County Cablevision. But changes in federal cable law will force revisions in the documents, and the city and the cable companies need more time.
“The city knows of no detrimental effects to cable subscribers, the city, or its franchisees, should Council act to permit this six-month extension,” Fiore and Zukowski wrote in a memo.
The resolution under consideration will push the deadline from Dec. 31, 1993, to June 30, 1994.
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