Barc Ratings System

Television ratings agency BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) has decided to pause weekly ratings for news channels for three months to "review and augment the current standards" of data after a huge controversy over the alleged rigging of viewership ratings by three channels. One of the channels, Republic TV, had gone to the Supreme Court s...

NDTV has consistently maintained that there is something terribly wrong with the way television ratings are measured, yet for lack of an alternative have been part of the current system. Unfortunately these flaws and malpractices have seen a spike recently. Consequently, today, we along with other major English news channels have decided to exit th...

Television ratings agency BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) has decided to pause weekly ratings for news channels for three months to "review and augment the current standards" of data after a huge controversy over the alleged rigging of viewership ratings by three channels. One of the channels, Republic TV, had gone to the Supreme Court s...

NDTV has consistently maintained that there is something terribly wrong with the way television ratings are measured, yet for lack of an alternative have been part of the current system. Unfortunately these flaws and malpractices have seen a spike recently. Consequently, today, we along with other major English news channels have decided to exit th...