{"id":1007262,"date":"2026-05-07T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007262"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:05:39","slug":"trp-reporting-for-tv-news-channels-withheld-for-another-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/trp-reporting-for-tv-news-channels-withheld-for-another-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"TRP reporting for TV news channels withheld for another 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, The government has extended for four weeks its order to withhold the reporting of Television Rating Points (TRPs) for TV news channels with the aim of &#8220;curbing display of sensationalism and speculative content&#8221; amidst the West Asia conflict, officials said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had on March 6 issued the first directive to the television rating agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to immediately withhold reporting the TRPs for TV news channels for a period of four weeks or until further orders, whichever is earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, The government has extended for four weeks its order to withhold the reporting of Television Rating Points (TRPs) for TV news channels with the aim of &#8220;curbing display of sensationalism and speculative content&#8221; amidst the West Asia conflict, officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had on March 6 issued the first directive to the television rating agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to immediately withhold reporting the TRPs for TV news channels for a period of four weeks or until further orders, whichever is earlier<\/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-1007262","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\/1007262","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=1007262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007275,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007262\/revisions\/1007275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}