Conflicting claims

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/06/2017

Republic TV on Thursday claimed it had 60 per cent viewership in 'super prime time''! "Record break run continues- decimates Times Now - 315 per cent greater than Times Now!" screamed the super on the channel. It put Times Now viewership at 18 per cent and NDTV at 6.5 per cent. Meanwhile Times Now claimed their channel was Number 1 with percentage figures at Times Now 38 per cent, Republic TV at 32 per cent, and the rest trailing in single digit scores. BARC India which measures the viewership does not calculate percentages. In weekly impressions in 000s it put the top three as follows: Republic TV 1054, Times Now 748, CNN News18 336.

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