News Broadcasting
DD wants 20% revenue share to telecast Bangla one-dayers
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati today told the Kerala High Court that it was willing to simulcast live the India-Bangladesh one-dayers if ESPN Star Sports (ESS) would part with a 20 per cent share of its revenues.
Arguing against this, ESS said such an arrangement was unacceptable. The court adjourned the hearing to Monday (20 December).
Earlier, Prasar Bharati also said it would not be able to telecast the India-Bangladesh Test match on Doordarshan (DD) due to paucity of time. It would not be possible to cancel some programme schedules on DD. The test match starts on 17 December.
A public interest petition was filed last week in the Kerala High Court, seeking telecast of the matches on pubcaster DD.
SC RESERVES JUDGMENT IN BCCI CASE
The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on the appeal filed by the Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI) challenging a Madras High Court order staying the election process to seek new office bearers.
The question of whether the board president (who at the time was Jagmohan Dalmiya) presiding as chairman of the AGM in which elections took place, was within his rights to cast two votes, was hotly debated in the apex court today as arguments continued. Incidentally, Dalmiya’s advocate, in presentations made yesterday before the bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice S B Sinha, had gone so far as to assert that the Indian cricket board supremo remained its president.
The Bench while announcing its decision, observed that it would look into the Board rules in its entirety before deciding the question whether the Chairman could have two votes, the Press Trust of India has reported.
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.
