It urges BARC not to come under pressure of vested interests.
15 Jan, 2021 - 08:53 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
New Delhi: The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) has demanded immediate release of the audience measurement ratings of news genre by BARC. The regulator had suspended weekly data for news channels after the alleged TRP scam surfaced in October last year.
Any further withholding of data beyond the initially stipulated 12 weeks would be “counterproductive,” stated the NBF. It also urged BARC to take corrective measures for future data.
“News channels employ hundreds of thousands of media professionals and their livelihood depends on the revenues generated by news channel and is directly related to the audience measurement data (TRPs). Therefore, NBF calls upon the stakeholders of BARC to initiate steps to resume release of the ratings of news channels with immediate effect. We believe the data is also critical for both ISA and A
I&B Ministry looking at phased roll-out of digital terrestrial TV in tie up with Prasar Bharati
January 13, 2021
In the process of finalising the National Broadcast Policy
The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting is looking at developing a roadmap for ramping up the roll out of Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) in collaboration with Prasar Bharati in a phased manner.
Terrestrial TV broadcasting in India is under the exclusive domain of Prasar Bharati and is mainly being done in analog mode of transmission. Analog terrestrial TV broadcasting is being phased out across the globe due to poor quality of reception and with analog technologies becoming obsolete.
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Will BARC in its current form be able to withstand the intense scrutiny?
31 Dec, 2020 - 08:55 AM IST | By Mansi Sharma
NEW DELHI: The broadcasting industry had already been reeling under the impact of the Covid2019 pandemic when the Mumbai police came down on it, hard. On 8 October 2020, Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh addressed a press conference about its investigation into an alleged scam involving the television audience measurement system.
The matter had come to light when ratings agency Hansa Services Pvt Ltd, a contractor of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), filed a complaint with the authorities, alleging that some TV channels had been manipulating their television rating points (TRPs). This had led to faulty calculations for advertisers and a major loss of revenue for stakeholders.
Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of BARC India, has been arrested. Former COO Romil Ramgarhia is also behind bars, and so is Vikas Khanchandani, CEO of Republic TV.