News Broadcasting
Times Now launches two new shows
MUMBAI: Times Now adds two new shows on lifestyle and travel are vivid and experiential to the weekend lineup. The channel has launched High Life and Take A Break on 18 November.
Take A Break is all about short getaways to locations that don’t exist on the tourist map where Malaika Shenoy shares the experiences. The show airs at 10:30 pm every saturday. High Life showcases the best that money can buy and other lavish houses, extraordinaire office spaces, night life, collectibles etc. The show will be hosted by model and film actor Tara Sharma and will air at 7.30 pm.
Talking about the new shows Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami said, “At Times Now, we believe in offering viewers shows that they can both enjoy watching and which are useful to them. High Life celebrates the high life, and will be very good viewing. And, just ahead of the holiday season, Take a Break is a ready reckoner on places about town where one can take a few days off. Both the shows add to the already exciting fare on Times Now weekend”
Both the shows are produced in-house and the executive producer programming Preeti Prasad adds, “At Times Now we’ve always believed in producing high quality programmes in-house, these two shows reinforce our commitment. Our shows like Line of Duty (that won an award in Rome) have set the standards in non-fiction television production. Our new weekend shows entertain both the voyeur and the voyager in you!”
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.
