Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming

This is the eighteenth report of the Federal Communications Commission to the United States Congress on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of video programming. In this Report, we focus on developments in the video marketplace in 2015. We categorize entities into one of three groups – multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), broadcast television stations, and online video distributors (OVDs). We describe the providers of delivered video programming in each group, summarize their business models and competitive strategies, and present selected operating and financial statistics.