Is the Indian television news industry its own worst enemy? A senior executive of a large fast-moving consumer goods company said it has minimised its exposure on news channels though TV remains the platform-of-choice for media spending for its food brands. Consequently, TV news industry executives said the total size of the news genre may still be around ₹5,000 crore. …
A former employee with the Broadcast Audience Research Council India has allegedly told a magistrate that the organisation received several complaints against Republic TV alleging that the channel used dubious methods to get number 1 viewership, but then CEO of BARC- Partho Dasgupta and Chief Operating Officer Romil Ramgarhia did not pay any heed. A witness in the Television Rating …
The company contended that the ratings agency ‘wilfully and deliberately’ did not take action on the findings of a July 2020 report commissioned after whistleblower allegations about TRP manipulation Mumbai: Media giant Times Group on Sunday said it has sent a legal notice to Broadcast Audience Research Council, alleging the TV rating agency “deliberately reduced” its English news channel’s viewership …
The Mumbai police said that they have busted a racket involving three television news channels for manipulating TRPs for advertising gains, discrepancies, which were spotted by television monitoring agency BARC. “Certain households were paid to keep their television sets on irrespective of whether they were at home or not, even with some English channels for uneducated individuals,” police commissioner Param …