HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 12-20-94 - VIII-F ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. V„ y-F-
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: December 20, 1994
SUBJECT: Time Warner - Transfer of Cable Franchise
DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X
ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Albert Kittrell
- Resolution TELEPHONE NUMBER-
Hillsborough -732-8181
Chapel Hill -968-4501
Mebane -227-2031
Durham -688-7331
PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution approving the Transfer
of Time Warner Cable Franchise.
BACKGROUND: Time Warner the parent company of Cablevision has
annnounced a joint venture agreement with Advance
Publications and Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation.
Cablevision has requested Board of Commissioners
approval of the transfer/change in ownership of the
cable franchise with Orange County. The change will not
have an effect on the local management of Cablevision.
The County Attorney has reviewed the documentation of
the transfer/change and drafted the attached resolution
for Board adoption.
RECOMMENDATION(S) : The Manager recommends that the Board adopt
the resolution approving the transfer of Cable
TV Franchise from Time Warner Entertainment
Company, L.P. to Time Warner Entertainment
Advance/Newhouse Partnership
NORTH CAROLINA RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS OF ORANGE
COUNTY APPROVING TRANSFER OF
FRANCHISE FROM TIME WARNER
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P.
TO TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT-
ORANGE COUNTY ADVANCE/NEWHOUSE PARTNERSHIP
WHEREAS, Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. ( "TWE" ) is
the holder of a franchise (the "Franchise" ) to provide cable
television service for the County of Orange; and
WHEREAS, TWE with Advance Publications and Newhouse
Broadcasting Corporation will create a new joint venture cable
operation to be called "Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/
Newhouse Partnership; and
WHEREAS, the joint venture will be managed by TWE and be
two-thirds owned by TWE and one-third owned by Advance/Newhouse,
a partnership of Newhouse Broadcasting and Advance Publications
Inc . ; and
WHEREAS, the Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse
Partnership will be bound by the terms and conditions of the
Franchise subject' to applicable law.
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that, insofar as may be
necessary or advisable under the Franchise, transfer of the
Franchise and the cable television system operating pursuant to
the Franchise from TWE to Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/
Newhouse Partnership (including any necessary transfers through
one or more Time Warner entities) is hereby authorized and
consented to in all respects.
Upon motion of Commissioner Gordon , seconded by
Commissioner Carey , the foregoing Resolution was adopted
this the 20th day of December , 1994
Ayes Chair Moses Carey, Jr. , and Commissioners William C. Crowther, Alice M.
Gordon, Stephen H. Halkiotis and Don Wilihoit
Noes NONE
I, Beverly Blythe, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for
the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said
Board at a meeting held on December 20, 1994 as relates in any way
to the adoption of the foregoing and that said proceedings are
recorded in Minute Book No. of the minutes of said Board,
beginning at page and ending at page
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this 25th day
of January , 1995 .
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