The story so far : The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked the Broadcast Audience Research Council to resume the release of television rating points, also known as target rating points, data. To begin with, BARC has been asked to release data of the last three months in a monthly format for a “fair and equitable representation of true trends.” …
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 …
The police said that households were allegedly paid Rs 400 to Rs 500 per month to keep channels switched on the entire day The Mumbai Police on Thursday said that it has busted a ‘false television rating points racket’, where media channels have been found manipulating TRP numbers. Three channels including Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV are being investigated for ratings …
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