TRPS Are Not In Our Hands!:Note PG5 - Page 2

Originally posted by: pippa

Why are you confused?

Ok..Do you have this electronic device that the Information and Broadcasting Ministry of India has authorised? It's called TAM, a gadget that is attached to your TV set. You press a button on it or attached to it when you tune into your favourite channel...in this case, Geet in Star one.

Once you press that button, it is registered at the TAM center. If the Geet's TRPS are to rise, many viewers like you who have the device in their homes will have to press that button around the same time...

That device is not given to everybody in india because, there aren't enough of then going around and there are too many homes. Only a selected few are given these devices and i'm not sure on what basis they are selected...whether it is to do with towns and villages and a class of people in the metros or if it is to do with housewives as constant viewers!

All I know is that a majority of metro viewers are not given this device.

So, unless you have this gadget installed at your home...btw, you can't buy it over the counter...it's given to you by the TAM people, you cannot raise the trps by simply tuning into Star One at 9.25 pm.

So, Geet may be very popular and 1000s of others like us must be watching it in India but it's pretty pointless as that doesn't contribute to the TRPS.

Star One knows that Geet is popular, thanks to all those fans who called and wrote on the FB pages...but if none of these fans have that gadget and cannot that translates into trps, it's quite useless to the channel which depend majorly on sponsorship to keep their channel going as sponsors prefer to advertise on shows that have good and high trps.

Yet, it's comforting to know that Geet has many sponsors!

Hope things are a little clearer now?

only a little is clear really very confusing
do u have dat tam machine?i don't have dat so my trps won't be counted then why people here say watch geet at 9:25 ????

thanks!!!! then our review are most valuable for our show to go on and on and on!!!!!!

yes understand ur view and this TRP systems r very complicated
but main thing is this is the show once get more than 1 trp so y not try again
still we should watched it from 9.25 p.m. on star one
we should still try cause never forget once this show is got more than 1 trp

Thank you so much for this informative topic- I have always been confused as to how certain programs got such high TRPs while Geet never was in the race, inspite of its popularity. Is there any solution to this problem ?Please advise.

@ankita24 and all we still not forget that this show got more than 1 trp in past when delhi office track start so y not again now
we should watched it from 9.25
kya hoga oh bhagwan dekhenge but we will try

@Ankita24:

unfortunately, this is the only parameter available in India at the moment.

And to answer, your question about why Trps are important, i already mentioned it my previous post...only TRPS generate money from sponsors as they are the backbone for all channels.

Sponsors advertise only where viewership is high...the shows they think get the most viewers and the only way the sponsors can determine where and when to advertise their products is through these TRP ratings given to them by the TAM people.

That's why cricket matches in India attract the highest and most expensive sponsorship as they always have the highest tRPS.

I dont have any idea abt such peoplemeter , but u cant discourage people like this naa...coz not all of us living in Metros. I know about some filed-survey done by the channels PR to know the TAM ratings in cities time to time. But no such gadgets which our Govt. has delivered to common people, honestly i have never heard of such things, & why should Govt. provide so, as these are completely non-Govt. organisation & Govt. will get a minimum amount from these channels per year.

agree wid u , bt when it comes to geet

Oh god its complicated...!!

then whats the use of sitting before the television to watch the 1st telecast of your fvrt show...?? And sorry to say but if this happens then it's wrong...abi someone wrote in the comments that the gadget is available only in 16 cities of India, then what abt the rest of the nation ?

No one here in the geet forum is having that gadget...???

@all I request u all dear geetians pls watched the show from 9.25 p.m. on star one what will happen that will for future and God's hand but we should try and we will
but we should don't forget this show once reached more than 1 trp then y now now