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BARC TRP and DD audience data — Madras HC

DD audience-survey data disclosable; BARC TRP methodology §8[1][d] confidential; aggregate disclosable. Public-broadcaster audience data OK; BARC TRP methodology.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(BARC TRP and DD audience data — Madras HC,High Court of Madras RTI,RTI §2,RTI §8,BARC,TRP,Madras HC,Doordarshan)&metatag-description=(DD audience-survey data disclosable; BARC TRP methodology §8[1][d] confidential; aggregate disclosable. Public-broadcaster audience data OK; BARC TRP methodology.)}}
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 +====== BARC TRP and DD audience data — Madras HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Madras** · 2023-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +**DD audience-survey data disclosable; BARC TRP methodology §8[1][d] confidential; aggregate disclosable. Public-broadcaster audience data OK; BARC TRP methodology.**
 +
 +//Public-broadcaster audience data OK; BARC TRP methodology §8(1)(d); aggregate ratings disclosable.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Madras |
 +^ Decided | 2023-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Journalist / researcher |
 +^ Respondent | Prasar Bharati / BARC |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h), §8(1)(d) |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +DD audience-survey data disclosable; BARC TRP methodology §8(1)(d) confidential; aggregate disclosable.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Doordarshan audience-survey data is §4(1)(b) public-authority information. BARC India's TRP methodology is commercially confidential (§8(1)(d)); however, aggregate weekly / monthly ratings once published are public. The question is scope: raw data commercial, published data free.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +BARC, TRP, Madras HC, Doordarshan
 +
 +===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
 +
 +//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
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 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +<WRAP center round alert 95%>
 +**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-mad section-2 section-8}}