News Broadcasting
Star News bags first Emmy for India
MUMBAI:Star News India has won the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award conferred jointly by UNICEF and International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATA & A).
The award which was given at the 30th International Emmy Awards Gala held in New York makes Star News the first Indian channel to win an Emmy Award, states an official release.
Star News India, emerged winner among 30 other TV broadcasters who were vying for the award. The other three finalists were a three-time winner of the ICDB Award -TV Cultura from Brazil, last year’s winner Canal Capital from Colombia and first time nominee Channels Television from Nigeria.
“We’re extremely proud of this award as it is for the first time an Indian channel has won the award and we are the recipients. This only goes to show that children’s voices and issues are reaching out to global audiences,” Star India, COO Sameer Nair, is quoted as saying in the release.
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.
