TRP Scam: Times Group Sends Legal Notice to BARC, Seeks Rs 450 Cr in Damages
The notice, which follows alleged chats between Partho Dasgupta and Arnab Goswami, said BARC should also publish a statement stating that Times Now was the leader in the English news genre between 2017-2019.
Logos of BARC and Republic TV and a TV control room. Photo: Reuters Illustration: The Wire
Media15/Feb/2021
Mumbai: Media giant Times Group on Sunday said it has sent a legal notice to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), alleging the TV rating agency “deliberately reduced” its English news channel’s viewership at the behest of a rival launched in 2017 and demanded compensation of Rs 450 crore.
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