Updated Jan 22, 2021 | 20:05 IST
Multiple attempts from Times Network to get an official statement of explanation from BARC in the last few weeks have been rebuffed. Due to this unacceptable and unpardonable act of BARC, Times Network has suffered huge financial losses (Website)
Mumbai, January 22, 2021: Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd. (BCCL) is a subscriber of viewership data from Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), for its Channels including Times Now operating under Times Network.
Since 2017 and especially after the launch of Republic TV in May 2017, BCCL/ Times Network suspected large scale manipulation of ratings pertaining to illegal usage of multiple LCNs and out of EPG placement by Republic TV. We also found significant abnormalities in Market wise ratings of that channel clearly indicating ground level tampering and/ or deliberate intervention at the raw data level to favour them. Times Network repeatedly complained about these irr