Fight to position the TV channel by tweaking the TRP scam
After Republic TVs viewership has come under scanner now the Mumbai police says, Times Now was deliberately made No 2 by massive data manipulation. As per the report, Milind Bharambe, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mumbai Police, said.
Nearly three months after the Mumbai Police busted a major racket for manipulating television rating points (TRP), details of the investigation have revealed that former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Partho Dasgupta, who was arrested on Thursday, had facilitated malpractices with other TV news channels to degrade the ratings of Times Now.
Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Bharambe said that TRP manipulation had been happening since 2016 where ratings appeared to be pre-decided. Mumbai Police chief Parambir Singh has alleged that Republic TV had falsely manipulated TRPs. The racket came to light when BARC, an organization that measures TRP, filed a complaint in this regard through Hansa Research Group Pvt Ltd, the police said.
Republic TV has denied all allegations and has claimed that the channel is being unfairly targeted.
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