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Movies on pay TV market investigation

Date of referral: 04.08.10        Statutory deadline: 03.08.12

Email: info@cc.gsi.gov.uk

Working papersDate published
WP1: Note to accompany publication of working papers (PDF, 54 Kb)  14.01.11
WP2: Theories of harm (PDF, 78 Kb)  14.01.11
WP3: Concentration in the upstream market (PDF, 38 Kb)  14.01.11
WP4: Background: pay-TV and movies on pay-TV (PDF, 198 Kb)  14.01.11
WP5: Consumer offerings of the principal pay-TV providers (PDF, 109 Kb)  14.01.11
WP6: Market developments (PDF, 294 Kb)  14.01.11
WP7: International comparisons: market structure in the USA (PDF, 70 Kb)  21.01.11
WP8: Market definition (PDF, 349 Kb)  28.01.11
WP9: Review of the Seabright report (PDF, 171 Kb)  28.01.11

WP10: Results of the CC survey

 09.02.11
WP11: Retail competition between pay-TV providers (PDF, 432 Kb)  31.01.11
WP12: Profitability of Sky (PDF, 421 Kb)  21.04.11
WP13: Effectiveness of retail competition (PDF, 72 Kb)  31.01.11
WP14: Significance of movies to the pay-TV retail market (PDF, 261 Kb)  21.01.11
WP15: Comparison of Sky's retail and wholesale prices (PDF, 71 Kb)  15.02.11
WP16: The supply, acquisition and aggregation of movie content in the FSPTW and of Sky's movie products (PDF, 95 Kb)  21.01.11
WP17: The availability to other pay-TV retailers of movie content in the FSPTW and of Sky's movie products (PDF, 99 Kb)  10.03.11
WP18: Barriers to creating new linear movie channels or SVOD services on pay-TV with content in the FSPTW (PDF, 192 Kb)  01.02.11
WP19: Implications of any monopsony power Sky may hold (PDF, 76 Kb)  28.01.11
WP20: International comparison of value to the studios from the FSPTW (PDF, 108 Kb)  28.01.11
WP21: Role of paragraph 17(c) in the theory of harm and comparative scenarios (PDF, 43 Kb)  11.05.11
WP22: The future TVOD plans of Google, Apple, Microsoft and LOVEFiLM (PDF, 41 Kb)  25.05.11
WP23: The growth of TVOD and electronic sell-through services (PDF, 73 Kb)  25.05.11
WP24: Competition between movie studios in the upstream market (PDF, 88 Kb)  25.05.11
WP25: Demand-side substitutes for Sky Movies (PDF, 207 Kb)  03.06.11
WP26: Analysis of Sky's prices (PDF, 322 Kb)  09.06.11
WP27: Revised evaluation of the evidence in relation to circumstance (c) of the TOH (PDF, 68 Kb)  13.06.11
WP28: Sky’s incentives to carry a product with FSPTW movie content from a competing broadcaster (PDF, 61 Kb)  26.05.11
WP29: Developments since our provisional findings (PDF, 241 Kb)  14.03.12

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