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Lathrop felt it was Conarroe's ploy to sell newspapers. CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE'S CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE WITH SCRIPPS HOWARD CABLE COMPANY Davidson opened the public hearing stating that Scripps Howard provided cable service to the City of Louisville and had asked the city to renew its franchise with the city to sell cable television services within Louisville. As a part of the renewal process, the City of Louisville is conducting public hearings to receive public comments on the performance of Scripps Howard under the present franchise agreement and to identify future cable related needs and interests of the community. He stated that public hearings were held on June 28 and July 21, 1993. He explained that this public hearing is a continuation of the previous public hearings. Sisk stated that Council had the benefit of a cable television survey and he requested that the survey be admitted into the record. Davidson stated that the survey would be made part of the public record of this meeting. Chris Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator, stated that this public hearing was an opportunity to provide citizens or cable subscribers an opportunity to comment on the present service of Scripps Howard. He explained that they had allowed Greg Griffin from Scripps Howard to respond to the comments at the end of the previous public hearings and he asked that it be the same format at this public hearing. Greg Griffin, General Manager, Scripps Howard Cable, Longmont, Colorado, stated that they have 14 cable systems in Colorado. He commented that Scripps Howard is a multi-national media company diversified in publishing and broadcasting. It's a Fortune 500 company and has been in business for over 100 years. He expressed his desire to negotiate a new agreement with the City of Louisville. Tim Kater, Manager of a technical assistance program with CSU and the State Department of Local Affairs, CSU Cooperative Extension, 150 East 29th Street, Loveland, Colorado 80538, stated that he covers 14 counties of northern and eastern Colorado, including Boulder, Larimer, Weld, Sedgewick, Phillips, Yuma, Kit Carson, Cheyenne counties, extending out to the Kansas, Nebraska state lines. He explained that the survey was developed by the City of Louisville to evaluate the performance of Scripps Howard in providing cable TV service to Louisville. There were 7,104 surveys were sent mailing addresses within the city limits, with 1,565 surveys being returned by the due date of July 20, 1993, which is a 22% response rate. Because the survey was sent to the entire population of Louisville, they cannot consider the results to be