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China to build world’s tallest television tower
MUMBAI: This should come as sweet music to lovers of architecture. The southern Chinese city Guangzhou plans to enter the record books by building the tallest tower in the world.
The Guangzhou TV Tower is expected to rise between 580-600 metres (1,914-1,980 feet) above the ground
A report in AFP stated that the tower will be located on the banks of the Pearl River. The new TV tower will occupy 84,880 square metres in the business district of Tianhe.
The report adds that officials expect the project to be open to tourists by 2008. The reason for the height is primarily due to the television transmitter
Another report in China Radio International stated that the tower’s final design had been selected and will soon be given to the city government for final approval. If all goes well, construction work will begin in December this year.
Located in a primarily residential area, many houses have been destroyed to facilitate the construction. The City Construction Office, however, has reached a compensation agreement with the area’s population and relocation plans are already underway. Guangdong TV will move into the tower soon after completion, while the city’s old TV tower will be pulled down or left for other purposes.
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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.
