Joining the attack

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/08/2012

After NDTV suing Nielsen, enter Prasar Bharati suing TAM. CEO Jawahar Sircar has said that he is keen on taking legal action against TAM on the suppression of data by TAM when it comes to viewership of DD. PB has pointed out that 62 million of 112 million TV homes are outside the ambit of TAM ratings as they were in rural areas. Apart from this, other problematic factors in TAM ratings are non-representation of the sample, data on weekly basis, method of selection of households and confidentiality of the names of panel homes which prevented verification. (TOI)

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.