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IPL 2024: Star Sports registers a record 510 million viewers in 51 matches

Tata IPL 2024: Star Sports experienced an 18% increase from the previous edition in terms of total watch time, with viewers spending 356,000 million minutes

BARC Director A K Mohanty appointed as new Atomic Energy Commission cheif

Renowned physicist and Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Ajit Kumar Mohanty has been appointed as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. Mohanty succeeds K N Vyas to the posts that oversee India's nuclear programme and forays into harnessing atomic power for civilian needs. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Dr Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, as Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission tor a tenure up to the age of 66 years i.e. till 10.10.2025 or until further orders, whichever is earlier," said a government order issued late on Saturday. Mohanty was appointed as the BARC director in March 2019. Born in Odisha in 1959, Mohanty completed his graduation in 1979 with Honours in Physics from the MPC College in Baripada and post-graduation from Cuttack's Ravenshaw College. In 1983, he joined the Nuclear

Delhi HC seeks Centre's response on plea seeking govt takeover of Barc

A public interest litigation (PIL) has sought that govt take over the body responsible for statistics on television audience measurement

Zee Media exits BARC, 14 news channels to be out of viewership rating

Zee Media sent a letter to the TV viewership measurement company on Friday evening, said sources

TV ratings body BARC to resume news channels' ratings starting mid-March

BARC had in October 2020 'temporarily suspended' the ratings on the news genre following a 'cash for ratings' scam allegedly involving top executives from Republic TV

The future of television

A closer look at the numbers for 2016, 2018 and 2020, shows that just over half of TV viewers and homes have always been in rural India

TV viewership rose 9% in 2020 on Covid-19 pandemic, shows BARC data

Television consumption by Indians increased nine per cent to 999 billion weekly viewing minutes on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, rating agency BARC said on Monday. The average time spent by every viewer increased to 4 hours and 2 minutes a day in 2020 from 3 hours 42 minutes in 2019, the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) said attributing the rise in viewership to the lockdowns where people were forced to be indoors for an extended period. The general entertainment channels (GEC), the biggest category of TV viewing, gained nine per cent by viewing minutes, movie watching was up 10 per cent, kids reported a 27 per cent increase, while music (-11 per cent) and sports (-35 per cent) showed a decline. News, where BARC's own record came in for a lot of scrutiny with the arrest of its former chief executive Partho Dasgupta leading to a stopping of the rating publishing, saw a 27 per cent increase, it said. BARC CEO Sunil Lulla said the peak of TV viewing was in March

Times Group sends legal notice to BARC, demands Rs 450 crore in damages

The notice said BARC should compensate Times Group with Rs 431 crore in damages and also pay back license fees of Rs 21.83 crore which has been paid by the group till date

Television advertising volumes up 23% in January, shows BARC data

It can be noted that the pandemic led to a drop in economic activity which impacted advertising deeply.

TRP case: Ex-BARC CEO discharged from hospital, bail plea on Monday

The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to submit by Monday the medical report of Partho Dasgupta, former BARC CEO arrested in the TRP rigging scam.

BARC's ex-CEO Dasgupta played 'vital role' in TRP scam: Mumbai Court

A Mumbai court, while rejecting the bail plea of Broadcast Audience Research Council's (BARC) former CEO Partho Dasgupta, has observed that he played a "vital role" in the alleged TRP scam

TRP scam: Ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta sent in 14-day judicial custody

A court here on Wednesday remanded Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of rating agency BARC who has been arrested in the Television Rating Points (TRP) scam, in 14 days' judicial custody. Dasgupta, who was produced before the court after his police custody ended, also filed a bail application. His lawyer Kamlesh Ghumre argued that Dasgupta was CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council but there was a board of directors and a disciplinary committee above him. He was not the "whole and sole of the BARC," the lawyer said, adding that he could not have manipulated the rating system. The court will hear the bail plea on January 1. Mumbai police have alleged that Dasgupta misused his official position and manipulated the TRP of certain TV channels. TRP was rigged by bribing some of the sample households from where viewership data is collected to tune into particular channels, as per the police case.

BARC charges Republic TV with misrepresenting private communication

Mumbai police, on a BARC complaint, is investigating allegations of manipulation of TRP ratings. Republic TV is one of the four channels being investigated

BARC suspends ratings of TV news channels for 3 months amid TRP controversy

BARC will continue to release weekly audinece estimates for genre of news by state and language

BARC scientist missing for the past four days from Mysuru, complaint lodged

According to his family sources, Abhishek Reddy Gulla went out on October 6 afternoon on his two-wheeler and did not return to his room since then

'Fake' TV viewership row and why the TRP is such a big deal for channels

Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh said those involved in the racket used to bribe people and ask them to keep some channels switched on even when they weren't watching

Viewership trends reveal the power of free platforms, regional content

For many who believe that TV is dead, this tells you a different story

With IPL wait getting longer amid Covid-19, viewers switch to films & news

Advertisers have estimated the loss in commercials could be Rs 6,000-7,000 crore in April and May. The loss includes ad revenues from IPL

Coronavirus spoils the show for media and entertainment business

The industry is at the cusp of a transformation, according to an EY report that came out in the early weeks of the Covid-19 onslaught

Lockdown effect: Surge in premium TV viewers; sharpest rise in Mumbai

The rise in premium TV viewership came even as time spent on smartphones grew 8% during the lockdown from affluent homes