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Ratings are important because that’s how advertisers decide which channel they’ll spend money on. The channel’s chief financial officer S Sundaram was summoned today for questioning, though he moved the Supreme Court challenging the summons.
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The owners of two Marathi entertainment channels, Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema, have been arrested.Ĭrucially, Republic TV was named by the police as well. Two days ago, the Mumbai police announced a “TRP manipulation scam”, where channels purportedly paid people to watch their programmes, thereby falsely boosting their ratings. The latest in this episode of TRP wars, however, played out on primetime TV itself - a definite first. More recently, in 2019, soon after Republic Bharat’s launch, Aaj Tak, India TV and TV18 again complained to TRAI. The TV Today Network had even filed a writ petition. In 2017, the News Broadcasting Association, a private body comprising major news broadcasters like India Today, India TV and Zee News, complained against Republicto the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for “double heading” - the practice of listing yourself on multiple channel numbers across different genres on various cable networks to hike up TRPs. An industry divided by cut-throat competition and constant one-upmanship, united like never before over the past two days to censure Goswami.Ī quick word on the TRP wars, though: This is not the first time that channels have come together to call out and complain about Republic’s alleged tinkering with TRPs. Apart from taking TV news debates to nightly new lows, we suppose Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami can also be credited for acting as Fevikwik for legacy TV media.