Media Contacts: 
Brendan Carr, (202) 418-1733
Robin Colwell, (202) 418-2300
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Robin.Colwell@fcc.gov
For Immediate Release
JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONERS PAI AND O’RIELLY 
ON THE 17
TH
ANNUAL VIDEO COMPETITION REPORT
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2016 -- Who’s afraid of a Commission vote? Charged by 
Congress in 1992 with the duty to provide an annual report on the status of competition in 
the market for the delivery of video programming, the Commission today, for the first 
time, punts this responsibility to the Media Bureau instead of bringing the proposed 
report to the Commissioners for a vote, as has occurred 16 times in the past. Perhaps we 
shouldn’t be surprised by this move to sneak out the door on a Friday afternoon 117 
pages of rationalizations for the Commission’s various ill-advised attempts to 
micromanage a market that is objectively more vibrant and competitive than at any t ime 
in history. After all, the last two Wireless Competition Reports met the same fate. It’s 
bad enough that our input on circulated and meeting items is typically ignored, but this 
disturbing trend of skipping the Eighth Floor entirely must be reversed, and is worthy of 
Congressional attention.
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Office of Commissioner Ajit Pai: (202) 418-2000
Twitter: @AjitPaiFCC
www.fcc.gov/leadership/ajit-pai
Office of Commissioner Mike O’Rielly: (202) 418-2300
Twitter: @mikeofcc
www.fcc.gov/leadership/michael-orielly
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes 
official action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).