linkedin The year 2020 will be remembered for more reasons than one. Although the entire advertising, media and marketing industry took a hit owing to the pandemic, further compounded by the economic crisis, news channels went on to take a bigger sip from the chalice of grief. The uproar created in the news genre stemming from the TRP manipulation scam caused massive skepticism in the minds of advertisers associating with news channels. After news broke out about certain channels tampering with BARC data to boost ratings, followed by the arrest of the CEO of Republic TV Vikas Khanchadani and two others connected with BARC, marketers carefully evaluated their decisions on the selection of mediums and channels.