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Ans 2:Television Rating Point (TRP) is a tool provided to judge which programmes are viewed the most. This gives us an index of the choice of the people and also the popularity of a particular channel. For calculation purpose, a device is attached to the TV set in a few thousand viewers' houses for judging purpose. These numbers are treated as sample from the overall TV owners in different geographical and demographic sectors. The device is called as People's Meter. It records the time and the programme that a viewer watches on a particular day. Then, the average is taken for a 30-day period which gives the viewership status for a particular channel.

Ans 3. It depends on the viewership of the special event of the program.If the TRP increases the timing is adjusted accordingly.More the TRP- the serial gets primetime and vise versa.

Ans 4. Television serial earns money from the advertisements shown during the telecast of serials. Rate of advertisements to be shown in between any serial is decided on the basis TRP of that program. Generally rate is on per second basis.

Television Rating point (TRP) is a method of ascertaining which serials/channels are viewed the most. For calculating TRP of serials/channels a device is attached to the TV set of few thousand of viewers selected on random basis. After getting the inputs from these devices a index of choice and popularity of a particular channel or serial is made.

Ans 5. There are a few companies that collects data about what people are watching in one of two ways:  asking people through surveys, and installing boxes in the home that record what you are watching. The data collected is not accurate We can say that the data is collected with some samall amount of people and some maths is done to identify the big mass approximately watching the show.