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                Video Competition and Price Survey Reports**(As of September 18, 2020, the Media Bureau's Engineering Division has been combined with the Media Bureau’s Industry Analysis Division.  Accordingly, the functions, links, and contacts for the former Engineering Division have been combined with the Industry Analysis Division and now appear on this page.)**

The Industry Analysis Division conducts and participates in proceedings regarding media ownership and the economic aspects of existing and proposed rules and policies.  The Division reviews license transfers that implicate significant policy issues.  The Division collects, compiles, analyzes, and develops reports on relevant industry and market data and information, including preparing the annual report to Congress on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of video programming.  The Division conducts technical reviews of media related matters and processes MVPD Registration, Cable Television Relay Service (CARS) applications, special relief and show cause petitions involving technical matters, and requests for rulings on technical matters and requests for waivers of the rules.  The Division processes signal leakage performance reports filed by cable system operators, analyzes aeronautical frequency usage data and takes appropriate action to ensure compliance with FCC requirements.


**Industry Analysis Division**
			(202) 418-2330**Division Chief**

			Deputy Division Chief

			Assistant Division Chief

			Assistant Division Chief
			
			**Radhika Karmarkar**

			Christopher Sova

			Peter "Jake" Riehm

			Ty Bream


**Media Bureau Reports**

2016 STELAR Section 109 Report to Congress

Annual Video Competition Reports

Competition and Price Survey Reports


**Merger Pages**

America Online-Time Warner
	AT&T–Comcast
	Comcast-NBCU
	EchoStar-DirecTV
	XM-Sirius**Issues and Topics**


**Division Issues**Broadcast Ownership Rules

			Cable Ownership and Attribution

			COALS

			Form 323 - Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Station

			Form 323/Form 323-E Ownership Reports for Commercial and Noncommercial Broadcast Stations


**Notices**

The Media Bureau announces mandatory electronic filing via the Cable Operations and Licensing System (COALS) for the following FCC Forms:

FCC FORM 320, Basic Signal Leakage Report
	FCC FORM 322, Cable Community Registration
	FCC FORM 324, Operator, Mail Address, and Operational Information Changes
	FCC FORM 325, Annual Report of Cable Television SystemsPaper versions of the above forms will not be accepted for filing, unless accompanied by a request for waiver of the electronic filing requirement. Users can access the electronic filing system for these forms via the Internet from the Commission's Web Site atwww.fcc.gov/coals. for more details...

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