Vartha Bharati’s Prakash to receive Special Award from State Working Journalists Association
Bengaluru: Prakash. C. Ramajogihalli, a senior reporter at the Vartha Bharati Bengaluru Bureau has been selected for the Karnataka Working Journalist Association’s, Bengaluru Shimoga District Working Journalist Association’s special award for the year 2019.
With 90 years of achievement, the Karnataka Working Journalists Association is effectively moving forward. Founded by senior journalist, renowned writer DV Gundappa (DVG), The Karnataka Working Journalists Association has advanced in the interest of the journalist through constructive and functional activities. The Association has been making positive contributions to the field of media by conducting multiple activities for the intellectual upliftment of journalists state-wide.
The awards will be presented to journalists recognized by the association at an event held at the premises of Shimoga City Country Club around 5. pm on October 3, Sunday.
District In-Charge Minister, Minister for Rural Development, and Panchayatraj Eshwarappa and Home Minister Araga Jnanendra will be presenting the awards.
State-level Annual Endowment Award for 2019: The KUWJ Endowment Fund Award for the year 2019 of the Karnataka Working Journalists Association has been announced as follows.
DVG Award: Ravi Hegde, Editor, Kannada Prabha, and Suvarna News
H S. Doreswamy Award: B M. Haneef, Prajavani
Gommata Media Award: S N. Ashok Kumar, Editor, Gommatavani
Patil Puttappa Award: S K. Sheshachandrika, Senior Journalist
S V Jayasheela Rao Award: A. Cha. Shivanna, Senior Journalist
P R Ramaiah Award: U S Shenoy, Editor, Kundaprabha
Garudanagiri Nagaraj Award: K R Manjunath, Editor, Malenadu Mandaara
H K Veeranna Gowda Award: Kodi Hosalli Ramanna, Senior Journalist
Kidi Sheshappa Award: K M Rekha, Editor, Hosapete Times
P Ramaiah Award: Revannasiddaiah Mahanubhavimata, Editor, Shidlu Newspaper
Yashodhamma G Narayana Award: Rashmi, Prajavani Bureau Chief, Hubli
M Nagendrarao Award: Shanthakumar K N, Vijayavani Bureau Chief, Shimoga
Minchu Shrinivas Award: Ramaswamy Hulakodu, VijayaKarnataka
H S Rangaswamy Award: P. Sunil Kumar, Editor, ‘City Highlights’ Bengaluru
Special Awards of the Association:
Prakash Ramajogihalli – Vartha Bharathi, Bengaluru
Prahladgudi, Reporter, Kannada Prabha, Raichur
Munivenkategowda, Senior Journalist, Kolar
M K Raghavendra Megaravalli, VijayaKarnataka, Theerthahalli
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Union government assumes full control over TV ratings, TRAI role curtailed: Report
New Delhi: The Union government has assumed full control over television audience measurement, removing the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) from oversight of the ratings system that underpins the country’s ₹36,000 crore television advertising market, according to a report published on Wednesday.
The report in Mint said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) now has exclusive authority over the framework governing how television ratings are measured and regulated. TRAI had been entrusted with oversight of TV ratings in 2012 during the UPA government’s tenure. TRAI is no longer mentioned in the relevant policy document, effectively vesting sole authority in the MIB.
The report said TRAI will continue to regulate other aspects of broadcasting, including channel pricing, advertising caps, interconnection and distribution norms, service quality and compliance standards. Its role in determining how ratings agencies track viewing behaviour has been withdrawn.
Television Rating Points (TRPs), which reflect viewership patterns, guide advertisers in deciding where to allocate spending across channels and time slots.
A government source quoted in the report said the ministry could modify TRAI’s decisions even when the regulator oversaw broadcasting.
A former CEO of Prasar Bharati told the newspaper that the MIB has historically regulated rating agencies through licensing and guidelines, and by holding them accountable under existing norms.
During its tenure overseeing ratings, TRAI had taken decisions affecting the broadcast sector, which included capping advertising time at 12 minutes per hour following complaints about excessive commercial breaks and it now remains unclear how these matters will be addressed under the revised arrangement.
Satya N. Gupta, former principal advisor at TRAI, was quoted as saying that merging regulatory functions with policy oversight and removing an independent regulator from the process was a retrograde step.
TRAI’s involvement in broadcasting had earlier attracted criticism as well. In 2012, its consultation paper on quantitative limits on television advertising was viewed by some as overlapping with the Advertising Standards Council of India’s code. Subsequent recommendations covering television audience measurement, ownership of news channels and issues such as paid news had also raised concerns among sections of the industry.
Television ratings have faced scrutiny in recent years, including during the controversy involving the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), where officials of the ratings body were prosecuted over allegations of manipulation of viewership data.
