MUMBAI: The investigation into the TRP manipulation scam is at a “crucial stage” and if any link is found between Arnab goswami of Republic TV, ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd and the other defendants, “then criminal guilt can be attributed to them,” Mumbai police said in a sworn declaration presented …
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MUMBAI: The criminal branch of Mumbai Police on Thursday he arrested a former executive director of the Pune district Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in the bogus TRP scam, an official said. Partho Dasgupta, the defendant, is the fifteenth person arrested in the case related to the alleged tampering with …
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The Government of India has announced new guidelines for Direct-to-Home Services (DTH) in the country, as well as updated licensing rules for DTH operators. The big changes in the new guidelines issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting include those for the license term, infrastructure exchange, and foreign direct …
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NEW DELHI: In a role reversal case, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to pressure the Center to exercise its powers under the TV Network Regulation Act TV channels have effective supervision of the contents of television programs, even though the Center argued that it respected the media’s right to …
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Names of two channels emerged for allegedly being involved in fixing the PRT. (Figurative) Mumbai: The names of two more TV channels have emerged during the investigation of an alleged bogus TV Rating Points (TRP) scam, police said Wednesday. While one is a news channel, the other is an entertainment …
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The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) board on Thursday proposed to its Technical Committee (Tech Comm) “to review and increase current standards” of measuring and reporting niche genre data and to stop publishing weekly individual ratings for all news channels during the period. This exercise, which covers all Hindi, regional, …
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MUMBAI: Research on the television rating points The manipulation scam (TRP) has shown that one of the four arrested defendants, Bomapallirao Mistry, had received in the last year a total of more than 1 million rupees in his bank account of between four and five people, said the Mumbai police. …
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Freedom of expression is one of the most abused freedoms in recent times, the Supreme Court said Thursday while listening to a case seeking action against television channels for allegedly spreading false news about the Tablighi Jamaat and communalizing the Nizamuddin markaz incident. . A bank headed by the Chief …
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NEW DELHI: By stopping the broadcast of a television program that allegedly hinted that Muslims were attempting to infiltrate the civil service, the Supreme Court Said as the highest court in the country, it could not allow such “insidious” comments in the name of freedom of the press to vilify …
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Dear editors, Forgive me for writing to all of you collectively and not individually. Also for approaching you publicly. On principle, I hate the idea of addressing a person publicly even on matters that may have consequences for people and public life beyond correspondents. However, there is a reason to …
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