Hansa Research Group, the complainant in the Television Rating Points Scam (TRP Scam) has sought to transfer the investigation into the scam, from the Mumbai Police to the CBI, only after realising its nexus with the accused TV channels was being investigated, the Mumbai Police has said in an affidavit to the Bombay High Court.
Five of the 15 people arrested by the Mumbai Police in the TRP Scam are former employees of Hansa Research Group and two other former senior officers of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), the affidavit states. Hansa Research was hired to install Bar-o-meters in select households to gauge the viewing pattern of television programmes.
Backstory: The Vantage Point From Which to Tell the Story of the Farmersâ Protests
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
Farmers raise slogans at Ghazipur border on January 30. Photo: PTI
Rights30/Jan/2021
While covering the ceaseless swirls and eddies in the epic farmersâ agitation on Delhiâs borders, a professional journalist would need to arrive at a vantage point from which to view, report and analyse the developments, in order to tell this history-making story with some degree of credibility and seriousness.
Many media persons have not had to search too hard to find their respective vantage points. Some are happy to be guided by TRPs, circulation figures, or the hits they can garner in their search for the perfect perch. A great many are content to occupy a roost crafted for them by an authoritarian, micro-managing political apparatus through the agency of supine and mendacious managements. All they, on their part, have to do is to suspend criti
HUL is the top advertiser.
30 Jan, 2021 - 01:47 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) of India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 16 January and 21 January 2021.
The data reflects the top 10 advertisers and brands across genres on India’s television, 2+ Individuals, NCCS. All demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 3 of 2021.
Top Advertisers:
It was followed by Reckitt Benckiser India, which ranked second with 193084 ad generations.
Ponds India bagged the third rank this time with 37798 ad AMA. Brooke Bond came in fourth with 36123 ad insertions.
P&G and ITC secured fifth and sixth place with 33604 and 32946 ad views.
India News: MUMBAI: The demand for a CBI probe into the TRP manipulation scam is “obviously made for ulterior motives,” said a reply filed by the Maharashtra gove.
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed ARG Outlier Media, the company that runs all Republic TV channels, to complete by February 9 its pleadings on its plea related to the Television Rating Points (TRP) scam case before the high court. A bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale also accepted the statement made by senior counsel Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the Maharashtra government, that the police will not take any coercive action against Republic TV editor-in- chief Arnab Goswami, and other employees of ARG Outlier Media, till February 12, the next date of hearing in the case. ARG Outlier Media had approached the high court last year, seeking, among other things, that the police be restrained from taking coercive action against its employees.