News Broadcasting
Wealth creation conversation for women; BTVi hosts show with Jhunjhunwala
MUMBAI: BTVi, India’s premiere English business channel, hosted the biggest wealth creation conversation of 2016 – Women & Wealth with Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India’s most influential stock market wealth guru and ace investor. Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, in her capacity as the driving force behind the NGO – People for Change, Balaji Telefilms Jt. MD Ekta Kapoor were a part of the conversation to share their experience in this regard.
The event which was anchored by BTVi executive editor Siddharth Zarabi along with Thomson Reuters presenter Radhika Bajaj brought together women business leaders, young women, aspiring entrepreneurs and women professionals across sectors on a single platform to discuss this topic.
Jhunjhunwala said, “As women and wealth are synonymous, earning wealth by legitimate means holds utmost importance. I would suggest don’t try to time markets and have holding power in investments.”
Irani said, “We need such insightful initiatives for better understanding of investment and wealth. We at People for Change, hope to strengthen women from all financial groups, to take responsible wealth decisions for themselves and their families.”
Kapoor said, “I have been a risk taker myself in my earlier stages of financial planning. Women are management gurus, they manage home finances efficiently and have the ability to manage wealth as well. With responsible insights from people like Jhunjhunwala, women can outshine in wealth creation.”
Zarabi said, “This initiative brought together women in business under one roof to educate them on how to take financial decisions. The show is aimed at equipping women with the right kind of information that would prepare and empower them to take specific steps towards planning their future and explore wealth creation opportunities.”
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI: Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
