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‘Lessons In Excellence: The Indian Story’ on CNBC
MUMBAI: CNBC, the business channel has announced the launch of its latest initiative Lessons In Excellence: The Indian Story .
The show slated to be India’s first strategic management show on television, will be hosted by Prof. Sumantra Ghoshal along with Dr. Gita Piramal and CNBC India’s managing editor Raghav Bahl.
At the launch of this initiative, London Business School, head of strategic leadership, Prof Ghoshal, held a workshop and made a presentation on Unleashing Organizational Energy,states a press release.
The presentation looked at how organizations can harness internal energy for maximum efficiencies and profits, the release adds.
The programme will be aired on 7 March at 7:00 pm, with a repeat telecast on 8 March at 8:30pm.
Prof Ghoshal’s is renowned as one of the world’s leading management gurus and co-author of the influential Managing Across Border: the Transnational Solution. He believes that in order to succeed, companies need to shift their attention from the management of financial capital to the management of human capital, a paradigm shift in international management thinking.
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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.
