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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For the meeting on TH, I think the Comcast Peacock ad revenues franchise fee (Not!) issue is on the agenda?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are in Comcast franchise renewal sessions starting this month.
<u>I don’t plan to raise this with Comcast, yet,</u> but I saw this media item and it brought home just how blurred the lines are --- Comcast is deemed to be raking in the ad revenues from Peacock and we know they are not paying a franchise fee on the ad
revenues …..yet it is Comcast the cable company interjecting themselves into that business by controlling price discounts and other Peacock benefits for their own cable subscribers ---- an UNLIKE situation to Netflix and Hulu, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I hope we continue to watch this play out across the US to see what approach is applicable to us here, if any. As we work on renewal details it would be nice to ensure we have the correct text to keep the
franchise fee door open on this issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/comcast-cable-business-theme-park-recovery-drives-quarterly-revenue-2022-01-27/">https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/comcast-cable-business-theme-park-recovery-drives-quarterly-revenue-2022-01-27/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thx! PAM Berrian <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Telecommunications Program Manager <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">City of Eugene IT Division <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">100 West 10<sup>th</sup> Ave, Ste 450 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eugene, Or 97401<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">541-682-5590<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="www.eugene-or.gov/telecom"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.eugene-or.gov/telecom</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Linked In: Pam Berrian <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Learn about our region’s Broadband Planning projects at <a href="http://www.connectingoregon.org/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.connectingoregon.org/</span></a> , <a href="http://www.eugnet.org/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">www.eugnet.org</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.oregonbroadbandplanning.org/About-the-Project/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.oregonbroadbandplanning.org/About-the-Project/</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Support what other cities are doing and check out <a href="www.natoa.org">
<span style="color:#0563C1">www.natoa.org</span></a>. Support Oregon’s Citizens Utility Board representing residential utility cusomers:
<a href="www.oregoncub.org.%20"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.oregoncub.org.</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864"><img border="0" width="229" height="24" style="width:2.3854in;height:.25in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D821BB.23514800" alt="Career_WB_emailsiglines-01 (1)"> Knowing City staff all over the
U.S. with shared interests</span><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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