News Broadcasting
CNBC TV18 adds personal finance to ‘Your Stocks’
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18, the leading English business news channel from the TV18 stable, is revamping one of its longest running shows, Your Stocks’, from 29 April.
The show, which enables viewers to seek answers to their stock related queries, will now expand its scope by including queries based on personal finance and commodities also.
Also, the show will now be hosted by markets and personal finance expert Vivek Law along with Sonia Shenoy. The first episode of this new format on 29 April will focus on answering investment queries of personnel from the Indian Armed Forces.
TV18 business media director and COO – New Media Projects Ajay Chacko said, “Your Stocks has been one of the oldest and most popular shows on CNBC TV18 and has played a critical role in guiding investor education for the past decade. The show’s new avatar will not only broaden its scope to go beyond stock queries and include questions on commodities, mutual funds, insurance, gold etc. but also find connect with newer audiences that are keen to receive information on alternate investment sources.”
Your Stocks has featured several market experts who have provided information to investors across the country and by expanding its scope, the channel claims that it will reach out to a much larger audience, from small towns to big metros, with customised responses to every query.
The show shall also feature special episodes once a fortnight focusing on different audience groups such as women, students and retirees.
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.
