Mumbai Police Busted Republic Tv And Two Other Tv Channels For Rigging Trp Ratings.

Mumbai Police busted Republic TV and two other TV channels for Rigging TRP Ratings.

The Mumbai police Thursday claimed to have busted a ‘major racket’ which was “fraudulently involved in manipulating Television Rating Points (TRP)” of TV channels, including Republic TV.Four persons have been arrested in the case.

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Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh said so far, three channels including Republic, Fakt Marathi, and Box Cinema were found to be indulging in such malpractices.Singh said that barometers to measure TRP’s are kept at several undisclosed houses across the country, based on which the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) measures TRPs of channels.

We found that some channels were paying former employees off agency Hansa Research Group- contracted by BARC to carry out the research.They in turn were paying certain households selected as barometers for calculating TRPs to keep certain channels like Republic switched on to show higher TRPs,” Singh said.

He further said some households were being paid as much as Rs 500 per day to keep particular channels on.“In some cases, people who did not understand English were keeping English channels like Republic on through the day.We have recorded their statements,” the Commissioner said.

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