News Broadcasting
APTN Library to represent archives of SNTV
LONDON: Associated Press Television News (APTN) Library will begin archiving Sports News Television (SNTV) programming from January 2003.
APTN will be archiving SNTV’s daily output of six sports bulletins each day and also catalogue material dating back to 1996.
The two companies will also produce themed clipreels from SNTV’s backdated catalogue. They are expected to feature ‘bizarre or extreme’ sports such as hubcap throwing, wife-carrying and extreme ironing as well as the more ‘mainstream’ material such as the biographical footage of top sportspeople.
“It is a very good fit with our existing service,” said APTN’s Head of Content Development Chris O’Hearn. “We believe that the type of clients who come to APTN for news and entertainment will be interested in SNTV’s sport as well,” he added.
Sports News Television (SNTV) claims to be the world’s leading sports news agency, and is a partnership between the Associated Press and Trans World International (TWI).
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.
