They install meters mostly in those houses where people are not modern or in houses of poor people. They are even given money and told to turn on so and so TV channels at so and so time even if they don't watch. I can't believe more than 50% of urban people watch regressive and sexist shows. Even Online TRPs are tampered. 3 years ago, underrated shows would come in Top 20. But now same shows are coming in Top 20 that comes on TV Top 20. I refuse to believe that people waste their time all day watching these outdated shows online and online don't have TRP meters so its calculated in other ways among more people. Phir Laut Aayi Naagin episodes on You Tube reached as high as 10-50 million views. Then why it was not in Top 20? I don't understand on what basis they count Online TRPs now. Earlier shows that were not even in Top 20 would be in Top with Top 10 shows(except Kapl Sharma and Taarak Mehta) not even Top 20 Online. KKB and KDB would be getting less than 1.0 rating then how they are now getting 30+ rating online? Here too they are cheating.
Wrong who said they install meters in only poor houses.....installing meter is decided on various factors like economic condition, geographical location etc....first they survey various houses from cities/villages nd ask question if they have 4 wheeler,2 wheeler do they have cars,ac!! how much their annual income is nd only after that they devides meters nd decides to how much meters installed in different tiers.....they devides tiers on the basis of economical conditions nd on basis of india population nd in india they have 4 tiers.....we only get urban data but industry insiders get full data nd in that they to knw that which tiers ppl are watching their shows nd from which tier they dont nd after that only they decides ad slot rates.....nd thats the only reason star plus ad slot rates are much more higher than others as they are more watched in tier 1 nd tier 2 cities even tho their grp was pretty similar to colors (im talking abt past as now star plus is way ahead than its competitors)
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