WaSMAR0801_01.xml Guide to the Office of Cable Communications Subject Files Office of Cable Communications Subject Files Seattle Municipal Archives 2022
PO Box 94728 600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3 Seattle 98124-4728 archives@seattle.gov http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-10-12. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Seattle Municipal Archives Office of Cable Communications Subject Files Seattle (Wash.). Office of Cable Communications 0801-01 4 cubic feet 1972-1986 English .

The Office of Cable Communications was established in 1974 as a unit of the Board of Public Works. Its purpose was to review Federal Communications Commission regulations, insure compliance, and to promote the City's interests in relation to cable television. An ordinance passed in 1976 mandated City procedures and regulations that cable companies must follow. In 1978, the Office was transferred to the Executive Department and a penalties and enforcement section was added to the Cable Communications ordinance. In 1988 the Office was abolished as an independent office and its function transferred to the Department of Licenses and Consumer Affairs; the cable franchising function was subsequently moved to the Department of Administrative Services in 1992. In 1997 the Executive Services Department was created, assuming most of the operations of the DAS, including the cable franchising function. With the creation of the Department of Information Technology in 2000, cable matters were reorganized into the Office of Cable Communications, a unit of the Internet and Cable TV Division.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and reference materials relating to cable television issues. Includes files and reports from the City's National Telecommunications and Information Administration grant project. Records are primarily from the years Frank Grief was OCC director, but also include materials from the years that the office was part of the Board of Public Works.

Records are open to the public.

[Item and date], Subject Files, Record Series 0801-01 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

 Grief, Frank Seattle (Wash.). Office of Cable Communications United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration Vanhu Seattle (Wash.). Cable Task Force Citizens Cable Communications Advisory Board (Seattle, Wash.) Seattle (Wash.) Public-access television--Washington (State)--Seattle Low power television--Washington (State)--Seattle Municipal Cable TV 1978-1982 1 1 National League of Cities 1979-1980 1 2 National Telecommunications and Information Administration 1980 1 3 NW District Franchise Information 1975-1979 1 4 Public Information 1976-1980 1 5 Franchising / Regulating Information 1978-1982 1 6 Municipal Ownership, Municipal Users 1978-1982 1 7 National League of Cities, Cable Task Force 1978-1982 1 8 Lobbying Congress 1978-1982 1 9 Boulder, Colorado: Anti -Trust Lawsuit 1978-1982 1 10 Access Festival, Budget and Finances 1979 1 11 Access Festival, Correspondence 1979 1 12 Access Festival, Clippings 1979 1 13 Access Festival, Schedules and Reports 1979 1 14 Bellingham, Washington Materials 1978-1982 1 15 Redmond, Washington Correspondence 1978-1982 1 16 Washington Cities 1978-1982 1 17 Tacoma, Washington 1978-1982 1 18 CATV Subcommittee Districts 1973 1 19 Ordinance (Draft), New Cities 1978-1982 1 20 Imported Signals 1978-1982 1 21 Publicity 1977-1979 1 22 LID Issue 1977-1978 1 23 Paul Adams Lawsuit 1986 1 24 Mayor's Reorganization, Placement of OCC 1979 2 1 Cable Company Advertising 1978-1982 2 2 Ordinances, Prior to 1978 undated 2 3 Cable Statistics 1978-1982 2 4 Census Information 1978-1982 2 5 Contracts with Cities 1978-1982 2 6 Educational Access 1978-1982 2 7 First Amendment Congress Seminar 1982 2 8 Federal Communications Commission 1978-1982 2 9 NTIA Grant Report (Final) by OCC 1982 2 10 Grief Speeches 1981-1982 2 11 State Legislature 1978-1982 2 12 Variance Applications 1978-1982 2 13 NTIA Grant Project 1980 2 14 NTIA Grant File, General 1978-1982 2 15 NTIA Grant File, Correspondence 1978-1982 2 16 NTIA Grant File, First Status Report 1978-1982 2 17 NTIA Grant File, Project Narrative 1978-1982 2 18 NTIA Grant File, UW Presentation 1978-1982 2 19 Public Access Rules, Municipal and Public 1978-1982 2 20 Ordinances, Portland, Oregon 1978-1982 2 21 Citizen Cable Committee, Correspondence 1978-1982 2 22 Existing Video Systems and Equipment 1978-1982 2 23 Surveys, Community Organizations 1978-1982 2 24 Survey, Subscribers 1978-1982 2 25 Potential Public Access Users 1978-1982 2 26 Census Information 1980 2 27 NFLCP, Regional 1978-1982 2 28 Surveys, City Departments 1978-1982 2 29 Municipal Cable Project 1978-1982 2 30 Puget Sound Cooperative Broadcasting 1978-1982 2 31 Northwest District Franchise Access 1982 2 32 Demonstration Project, City Light 1978-1982 2 33 Municipal Cable Information 1978-1982 3 1 Regional Power Act 1978-1982 3 2 Radio Communications Survey, Spectrum 1979 3 3 City Council 1976-1980 3 4 Management and Budget, Office of 1981 3 5 Personnel, Training Program 1980 3 6 City Council 1981 3 7 Parks Department Project 1978-1982 3 8 Comptroller 1981 3 9 Mayor 1980-1981 3 10 Mayor 1976-1979 3 11 House Bill / Federal Legislation 1983-1984 3 12 Budget 1985 3 13 Budget 1984 3 14 Budget 1980 3 15 Budget 1976-1979 3 16 Budget 1981 3 17 Budget 1982 3 18 Land Improvement District (LID) Files 1978-1982 3 19 Land Improvement District (LID) Files 1978-1982 3 20 Land Improvement District (LID) Files 1978-1982 3 21 Northwest Seattle Cable District, Correspondence 1979-1981 4 1 United States Conference of Mayors 1980 4 2 Vanhu Information 1972-1979 4 3 Regulatory Information 1972-1979 4 4 Future Antenna Tower Sights 1974-1980 4 5