India: Media Consumption is declining

and circulation and Media Reach is up (or in Print stable), according to the readership data (based on Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 Round 2) presented by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC) on November 4, 2008

Media reach in %



Number of Titles (average)
Dailies by -13,3 %
Magazines by -22,7 %

Regularity of 'consuming'
Daily by -17,5 %
Magazines by -21,1 %
TV by 2,8 %
Radio by -14,9 %

Time spend by Media
TV 99,4 minutes
Radio 81,1 minutes
Print 26,5 minutes

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More data from mruc here IRS 2008


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