News Broadcasting
Rohit Bansal exits TV18 board of directors
MUMBAI: Rohit Bansal, one of the board of directors from the TV18 Broadcast Ltd has expressed his inability to continue with the company due to other commitments with effect from 1 May 2016. Bansal along with founder Raghav Bahl and others was appointed on board as an additional non-executive director on 14 January 2015.
Bansal was the managing director at India TV and has also been a part of The Times Of India as a senior business correspondent. Prior to that, he worked with Zee News as business editor. He has also worked at TV18 as special correspondent earlier, and has been a columnist at The Pioneer, Governance Now, DNA and IANS.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which controls Network18 Media and Investments Ltd also has ownership on channels like CNBC-TV18, CNN-News18, IBN7 and websites like Moneycontrol.com, firstpost.com, etc.
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:Â 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.
