News Broadcasting
Pix lines up an array of movies in June
MUMBAI: From romance to comedies, action to mysteries, and horror to dramas, Pix has it all in June. The channel will air blockbuster movies under the brands Perfect 10, Cheap Thrills Friday, Damn Good Drama and Pix of the week.
Perfect 10 will have a John Travolta special from 12 – 14 June and a Barbara Streisand fest from 28 – 29 June.
Action, thriller and adventure style movies will take over on Friday nights in Cheap Thrills Friday with movies like Thank God its Friday and I Know What You Did Last Summer, which will air at 8 pm and The Blue Lagoon and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, which will air at 10 pm.
Dramas will dominate the screen on Saturday nights in Damn Good Drama with back to back movies of stars like Paul Newman amd Al Pacino in Absence of Malice and And Justice For All, which will air 24 June at 8 pm and 10 pm respectively.
Jack Nicholson’s Easy Rider will also be premiered in June apart from other premieres every Sunday at 8 pm.
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: 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.
