{"id":1001914,"date":"2026-04-09T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001914"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:23:42","slug":"mib-asks-barc-to-withhold-publishing-news-channels-trps-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/mib-asks-barc-to-withhold-publishing-news-channels-trps-amid-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"MIB asks BARC to withhold publishing news channels&#8217; TRPs amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday directed the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to withhold reporting the Television Rating Points (TRPSs) for News TV channels amid the Israel-Iran war for a further period of four weeks or until further directions, whichever is earlier, as reported by ANI. <\/p>\n<p>The step is undertaken as a measure to curb the display of &#8220;unwarranted sensationalism and speculative content&#8221; by some news genre channels amidst the West Asia conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday directed the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to withhold reporting the Television Rating Points (TRPSs) for News TV channels amid the Israel-Iran war for a further period of four weeks or until further directions, whichever is earlier, as reported by ANI. The step is undertaken as a measure to curb the display of &#8220;unwarranted sensationalism and speculative content&#8221; by some news genre channels amidst the West Asia conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}