Times Group Vs Republic Tv
Times Network mulls legal action against BARC for rating manipulation
Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd, India's top newspaper publisher and television channel owner, on Monday said it is mulling legal action against BARC over its alleged role in the manipulation of TV ratings. In a statement, BCCL said it is contemplating legal action against Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) over alleged fraud in declaring rival Republic TV as leading in the English News Genre ahead of the group's Times Now news channel. BARC's Forensic Audit of July 2020, as well as the multiple emails and WhatsApp chats of that period, which has been accessed by Mumbai Police, clearly shows that BCCL's Times Now's TRPs were indeed manually reduced by BARC officials. BCCL, a subscriber of viewership data from BARC for its channels, including Times Now operating under Times Network, said the rating agency had "fraudulently declared Republic TV as No 1, even when Times Now was consistently higher" by a large margin. "Due to this unacceptable and unpardonable act of BARC, Times
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TRP scam case: Times group plans to take legal action against BARC
Former CEO of BARC, Partho Dasgupta is already in jail along with several top executives of Republic TV - which, as per Mumbai police, benefitted due to the TRP manipulation by BARC top officials
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Don't report ongoing content infringement case: HC to Times, Republic TV
The Delhi High court on Friday restrained the Times Group and Arnab Goswami's Republic TV from reporting or publishing any material (except written orders) regarding the ongoing content infringement suit between the two media houses. The court's decision came after a series of back and forth arguments on the contentious issue, including the publishing of an earlier Times of India article reporting the case as an incident of theft committed by Republic TV and Arnab Goswami - of which the court took a critical view. The Times Group case against Republic TV involves the airing of the Sunanda Pushkar and Lalu Prasad Yadav-Shahabuddin exposes in the early days of the launch of the channel, which the Times Group has claimed is their copyrighted content and gathered by Arnab Goswami (and another former journalist of the Times Group) while in the employment of the company.In addition to passing directions curtailing the two media houses from reporting on the case, the court also recorded ...
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