Shambhavi Thakur
Renting Ferraris in Monaco, purchasing Rolex watches using company funds, and âchangingâ TRPs to get âdesired outcomesâ. These are just some of the unscrupulous practices followed by top former executives of the Broadcast Research Audience Council, according to a forensic audit of its operations.
The audit was done by Acquisory Risk Consulting Pvt Ltd, or ARCPL, a Mumbai-based risk management consultancy after it was approached by the BARC board and management last March. The board had decided to audit and review its records after receiving multiple complaints about alleged malpractices, including inaccuracy in its ratings process for TV channels and the concentration of power in its former senior management. The board included BARC chairman Punit Goenka.
16 January 2021
On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the TRP scam case, which includes conversations between Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of BARC, and Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV.
On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the TRP scam case, which includes conversations between Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of BARC, and Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV.
On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in a case investigating the alleged manipulation of television rating points by several media organisations, most notable among which was Republic TV. Four days later, two volumes of the TRP-scam chargesheetâwhich runs into 3,400 pagesâwere leaked to the press. These documents contain WhatsApp conversations between Partho Dasputa, the former CEO of BARC, and several of his colleagues, and also with the co-founder, editor-in-chief and anchor of Republi