SUPERVISORS APPROVE GTE CABLE TV PROPOSAL.Byline: Kermit Pattison Daily News Staff Writer The Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. on Tuesday allowed GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) to move ahead with a new 78-channel cable television network in unincorporated areas of the county. The supervisors unanimously approved the franchise agreement with GTE Media Ventures Inc. for the hybrid fiber optic and coaxial cable television network in a pilot project the communications giant hopes will attract 122,000 Ventura County customers within two years. ``Obviously, it's good news,'' said Larry Cox, a spokesman for GTE. ``. . . Now we have to go forward and get approval from the remaining cities.'' As part of the contract, GTE will provide the county with a government channel to broadcast meetings of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle and other public agencies. Several local cities televise tel·e·vise tr. & intr.v. tel·e·vised, tel·e·vis·ing, tel·e·vis·es To broadcast or be broadcast by television. [Back-formation from television. city council and planning commission meetings, but the county has so far remained off the air. ``We have to dedicate an extra channel,'' said Gerald Edgar, an attorney for GTE Media Ventures. ``But we're willing to do that.'' The county negotiated a 19-cent monthly fee per customer to pay for the government channel and plans to add similar provisions in other cable franchises as they come up for renewal. Officials hope all seven cable companies in the county will carry the government channel. ``This is the first one that leaves the door open,'' said Ray Holzer, a real property agent for the Ventura County Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. Agency. Holzer said the proposed GTE system would be the most high-tech cable service in the county. ``This should be the most advanced one in the county because they're starting from scratch,'' he said. ``Everybody else has been here for 20 years. They're starting with 1996 technology right from the beginning.'' GTE has targeted Ventura County and the Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. region of Florida as the first markets for an advanced video network, which the company hopes will grow into a nationwide system of 7 million households by 2004. The company plans to include Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , Camarillo, Oxnard, Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. , Santa Paula and parts of the unincorporated county in the new system. The county is the second jurisdiction to approve the contract with GTE. In February, the Thousand Oaks City Council approved a franchise agreement for the cable system. GTE already has begun construction in Thousand Oaks and plans to seek franchise agreements with the remaining cities, said Cox. GTE said the system will offer compact disc-quality sound and high-quality picture resolution on 78 channels. |
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