News Broadcasting
King Kong is coming to television exclusively on Turner in 2008
MUMBAI: Turner Brodcasting has announced that it has acquired the network premiere rights from NBC Universal for King Kong, with broadcast slated for 2008.
TBS and TNT senior VP of programming Ken Schwab said, “King Kong is one of the most popular and critically praised movies of 2005, and we are proud to add it to our stable of top-notch movies airing on TBS and TNT. Obtaining this enormously popular title demonstrates Turner Broadcasting’s continuing commitment to provide our audiences with top-notch movie entertainment.”
Since its release in December 2005, Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, the 1933 classic about a giant ape who falls in love with a human woman, has grossed over $215 million in the US and $540 million globally.
The film has been nominated for four Academy Awards: art direction, visual effects, sound mixing, and sound editing. Jackson and composer James Newton Howard each received Golden Globe awards for direction and score, respectively. King Kong stars Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, and Jack Black.
Also included in the deal are TV rights for the NBC Universal movies Doom, starring The Rock, Two for the Money, starring Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, The Ice Harvest, with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the second window for Prime, starring Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman.
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.
