News Broadcasting
Time Warner inducts COO Bewkes onto board
MUMBAI: Time Warner president and COO Jeff Bewkes has been elected to the company’s board of directors. Motorola chairman and CEO Edward J. Zander has also been elected.
Speculation doing the rounds is that Bewkes is in line to succeed Dick Parsons as chairman and CEO.
“Jeff Bewkes has been a highly effective partner as we’ve worked together in turning Time Warner around and setting it firmly on a path of sustainable growth,” Parsons said.
“As COO, Jeff’s been a superb leader of our businesses, driving the AOL transition, encouraging superior performance across the company, and working to realize our full potential, especially in the advancement of our digital capabilities. His intimate knowledge of our company and industry, along with his intelligence, energy and character, will make him a valuable addition to our Board.”
Time Warner’s Board now has 14 members including Bewkes and Zanders. Six of the members joined the Board since January 2004. The other members of Time Warner’s Board are Parsons, James L.
Barksdale, Stephen F. Bollenbach, Frank J. Caufield, Robert C. Clark, Mathias Dopfner, Jessica P. Einhorn, Reuben Mark, Michael A. Miles, Kenneth J. Novack, Francis T. Vincent, Jr. and Deborah C. Wright.
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.
