§ 1. Definitions.

For purposes of this Ordinance the following terms, phrases, words, abbreviations and their derivations shall have the same meaning given herein.

A.

Cable Television System or System shall mean the Company's system of antennas, cables, amplifiers, towers, microwave links, waveguides, satellites, or any other conductors, converters, equipment or facilities designed and constructed for the purpose of producing, receiving, amplifying, storing, processing or distributing audio, video, digital, or other forms of electronic, electrical, or light signals capable of being transmitted by wire, cable, fiber optics or radio to subscribing members of the public in the City who pay for such services.

B.

City shall mean the City of Altus, Oklahoma, and all territory within its governmental authority.

C.

City Council shall mean the present governing body of the City, or any successor to the legislative powers of the present government body.

D.

Company shall mean Cable One, Inc., a Delaware Corporation.

E.

Federal Communications Commission or FCC shall mean the agency as presently constituted by the U.S. Congress or any successor agency authorized by the Congress to regulate cable television systems.

F.

Gross Revenues shall mean all revenue derived by the Company, its affiliates or subsidiaries from subscription to its cable television services in the City, but shall not include revenue from cable advertising, home shopping services, sale or exchange of assets or equipment, cable modem services, information or telecommunications services, any government regulatory fees, any taxes on services furnished by the Company and imposed directly upon a subscriber or user by the state, city, or other governmental unit and collected by the Company on behalf of the said governmental unit, or any amounts collected directly from subscribers to satisfy the franchise fee requirements of this Ordinance.

G.

Person shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.

H.

Regular Subscriber Service shall mean that service regularly provided by the Company to all subscribers.

I.

Street shall mean the surface of and the space above and below any public street, road, highway, freeway, lane, path, public way, or place, alley, court, boulevard, parkway, drive, or other easement now or hereafter held by the City for the purpose of public travel and shall include other easements or rights of way as shall be now held or hereafter by the City which shall, within their proper use and meaning, entitle the City and the Company to the use thereof for the purposes of installing or transmitting cable television system transmission over poles, wires, cables, conductors, ducts, conduits, vaults, manholes, amplifiers, appliances, attachments, and other property as may be ordinarily necessary and pertinent to a cable television system.