The next hearing in the case is posted for 26 February 2021.
02 Feb, 2021 - 12:55 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Hansa Research Group, which had filed a writ in the Bombay high court in early November 2020, complaining of police harassment in the TRP scam case, has now filed a rejoinder in the court to the reply filed by Mumbai police. Hansa has claimed that the reply by the Mumbai police “contains nothing but few denials and unsubstantiated, vague and superficial allegations.” The rejoinder further stated that the police allegation that Hansa is aiding and abetting ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd (Republic TV) is nothing but a figment of the imagination. Hansa “has no interest in any media channel” and the police cannot compel Hansa to “implicate or exonerate any channel.”
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
MUMBAI: For the third consecutive week this year, Colors has remained in the top two channels on pay platform (Saturday 16 January 2021 to Friday 22 January 2021) of Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) data. Pay Platform In week three of BARC India ratings, the top ten channels on pay platform were Star Plus, Colors, Sony Sab, Zee TV, Sony Entertainment
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.