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NDTV Convergence to organise India Financial Summit
MUMBAI: NDTV Convergence’s financial news website ndtvprofit.com is organising ‘The India Financial Summit – 2008’. The first round of summit will be held in Mumbai on 9 January and in Bangalore on 11 January. The summit will highlight the growth for the Indian financial sector and the steps required to meet the challenges of evolving global financial markets.
The summit will focus on the role of regulators in protecting the interest of retail investors from the repercussions of any major international financial crisis. It will also throw light on the current trends within the Indian, International markets and their impact on the corporate and investor community as well as the changing face of banking and financial services industry respectively.
NDTV Convergence CEO Sanjay Trehan said, “Though we have been enjoying very high growth rates for the past few years, there is an increasing concern that a significant slowdown could occur in the developed countries. As the Indian economy integrates with global markets, there is a need to address these challenges for the regulatory authorities.
Acquiring new customers, shifting client expectations, finding new areas of growth, managing liquidity and designing safeguards are a few of the concerns for the Indian financial sector in this competitive financial environment.”
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.
