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New Delhi: Times Group has sent a legal notice to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), alleging the TV rating agency deliberately reduced its English news channel s (Times Now) viewership at the behest of a rival launched in 2017 MZM Legal LLP on behalf of Bennett, Coleman and Co (BCCL) on February 11. The media giant has demanded a compensation of Rs 450 crores.
The notice was sent on February 11 following a probe by Mumbai Police into the fake TRP case. The former chief executive of BARC Parto Dasgupta and Republic s promoter and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, have been arrested in connection with the case.
linkedin Bennett Coleman & Company has issued a legal notice to BARC on account of the shocking illegal and fraudulent viewership management and tampering of television audience measurement and television rating points . According to the statement issued by
Times Now, the legal notice follows the press conference held on 25 December by the Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police during which he spoke about the forensic audit report of July 2020 which revealed that the TRPs of various channels were manipulated, rigged, tampered and at times pre-decided by the erstwhile upper echelon of BARC. According to the Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police,
Times Now had been reduced to the second position in a fraudulent/illegal manner with a view to make another newly launched English news channel (Republic TV) as the number one channel. The statement added that the press conference made it clear that activities resulting in viewership malpractices and TRP manipu
Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV sends legal notice to media site to stop report on brands halting ads
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BestMediaInfo.com said the
notice was served to its Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Niraj Sharma after its editorial team contacted Republic TV’s Chief Executive Officer Vikas Khanchandani on Thursday for a comment on the planned news report.
Republic TV’s legal notice said the report was false and “part of a mala fide, vicious, vexatious and deliberate campaign” to tarnish the reputation of the channel and its executives, the website said. The notice threatened “the strongest legal action” against
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court has extended till March 5 the protection from coercive action granted to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of the channels in connection with the TRP manipulation case, news agency PTI reported. The interim relief was extended after the high court adjourned the hearing on Republic TV’s parent company ARG Outlier