Media Concentration

Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks. (PDF)

CFA Comments Filed at the FCC on Auction Rules for the TV Spectrum, 06/03/2013. (PDF)
CFA Competition Analysis Provides a Roadmap for the FCC and the DOJ to Oppose the Verizon-Cable Spectrum Sale and Collaborative Agreements , 07/09/12. (PDF)
UMG-EMI Merger is a Sour Note for Consumers, 04/26/12. (PDF)
Speculation: a Key Cause of Rising Gas Prices, 04/05/12. (PDF)
Study Finds Consumer Benefits of Unlicensed Spectrum Exceed $50B Per Year, 11/29/11. (PDF)
CFA's Dr. Mark Cooper on the Launch of a Self-Regulatory Approach to Consumer Protection for Cellular Service, 10/17/11. (PDF)
Consumers to Feds: Block Telecom Mega-Mergers, Mergers Would Create Telecom "Hydra", 06/15/05. (PDF)
Public Opinion Supports the Bold Aspiration for the First Amendment, 10/21/04. (PDF)
CFA Launches New Internet Movement to Stop Media Mergers, 08/09/04. (PDF)
Consumer Federation of America Launches New Internet Movement to Stop Media Mergers, 06/24/04. (Read More)
Green Light for Mergers Could Result in Media Giant Dominating 100 Local Markets, 05/23/03. (Read More)
Public Opinion, Legal Principles and Economic Analysis Support Media Ownership Rules, 12/16/02. (Read More)
FCC Proposals to Weaken Media Ownership Rules Will Undermine Media Diversity, 10/31/02. (PDF)

The End of the End of Competition for Digital Access Service, 07/09/12. (PDF)
Why Growing Up is Hard to Do: The “Quarter-life Crisis” of the Digital Revolution in the Transition from a Public Switched Telephone Network to a Public Digital Communications Network, 12/14/11. (PDF)
Broken Promises and Strangled Competition: The Record of Baby Bell Merger And Market Opening Behavior, 06/15/05. (PDF)
Executive Summary: Broken Promises and Strangled Competition: The Record of Baby Bell Merger And Market Opening Behavior, 06/15/05. (PDF)
Mass Deregulation of Media Threatens to Undermine Democracy, 06/03/03. (PDF)
Promoting the Public Interest Through Media Ownership Limits, 05/21/03. (PDF)
Media Ownership Limits Serve The Public Interest, 05/09/03. (PDF)
Concentration in California's Local Media Markets, 03/01/03. (PDF)
Executive Summary: Democratic Discourse in the Digital Information Age, 12/13/02. (PDF)
Public Support for Media Diversity and Democracy in the Digital Age, 10/31/02. (PDF)

CFA Comments Filed at the FCC on Auction Rules for the TV Spectrum, 06/03/2013. (PDF)
CFA Comments Urging FCC and DOJ to Oppose Verizon-SpectrumCo Agreement, 07/09/12. (PDF)
CFA Letter Urges Close Scrutiny of Universal Music Group and EMI Merger Proposal, 04/26/12. (PDF)
Statement of Research Director Mark Cooper on Verizon’s Purchase of Comcast’s Spectrum Licenses., 12/2/11. (PDF)
Testimony of Dr. Mark Cooper on Competition in Sports Programming, 03/05/08. (PDF)
Testimony of Dr. Mark Cooper on Proposed XM-Sirius Merger, 02/28/07. (PDF)
Senate Testimony of Mark Cooper on Media Ownership, 10/02/03. (PDF)
Free TV Swallowed by Media Giants, 09/15/03. (PDF)
Petition for Reconsideration of Media Ownership Rules, 09/04/03. (PDF)
Abracadabra! Hocus-Pocus! Making Media Market Power Disappear With the FCC's Diversity Index, 07/01/03. (PDF)