Originally posted by: AlexWaverly
The TRP you are talking about is for the previous week which had Asha coming in only on Thursday.TRPs don't come out until the week is over.And no an actor can't pull TRPs.Only God knows what pulls in the TRPs.
I have mentioned it a lot many times,would say it again.
There is a device called TRP metre that is attached to the TV sets of only 8500 homes in India.All the houses are in cities.Villages are not taken into account.40% of the houses are in Mumbai & Delhi.It is mostly in the big cities that the TRP metres have been installed.Only these 8500 households determine TRP although there are millions of TV viewers in India.
These TRP metres keeps a record of the program when a person watches it at the original telecast time.At the end of the week or fortnight the personnel from the agency TAM that calculates TRPs visit the homes where the TRP metres are installed and retrieve the information from the TV set.
And no,Set top boxes do not determine TRP.They were introduced to digitise TV viewing and to cut off the cable operators who consumed a chunk of the subscription fee of the channels,hence their revenues.