News Broadcasting
CNN US’ Lou Dobbs, Drew Griffin win Emmy Awards
MUMBAI: The National Television Academy in the US has awarded CNN US two Emmys.
The academy presented the awards for the best business and financial reporting in 2005 during its third annual ceremony held a couple of nights ago at Bloomberg’s New York City headquarters.
A Lifetime Achievement Emmy has been given to anchor Lou Dobbs.
This award recognised Dobbs for the creation of news shows Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Lou Dobbs Tonight. He also helped launch CNNfn and was also recognised for his coverage of some of the most important financial topics over the past quarter century, including jobs, immigration and the global economy. Last year Lou Dobbs Tonight won a business Emmy in the category of Outstanding Extended Coverage of a Business Story for Exporting America which deals with outsourcing.
Investigative correspondent Drew Griffin and producer Pia Malbran earned an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Reporting of a Business News Story – Regularly Scheduled Newscast for their reports about fires allegedly caused by some Ford trucks.
In an early report, Griffin interviewed Earl Mohlis, an Iowa man who filed a wrongful death against Ford after his wife died in a fire allegedly caused by their Ford F-150 pickup truck. Griffin continued to investigate and report on the story of why Ford delayed recalling vehicles with a reportedly faulty cruise control device even after the National Highway Traffic Safety Association had launched 4 separate investigations and had more than 650 reports of Ford vehicles bursting into flames. Those follow-up reports aired on Paula Zahn Now.
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.
