News Broadcasting
Recreate Solutions bags contract for Canal+Technologies, Digital Interactive Television Group and Insead
Recreate Solutions, a media services company based in London and Mumbai, has won three overseas contracts in interactive television programming.
The company has signed on Canal+ Technologies, Digital Interactive Television Group and Insead. The three contracts are collectively worth over two and a half million US Dollars per annum. The Canal+ Technologies contract alone, would bring in over one million dollars to Recreate Solutions annually an company release informs.
Recreate Solutions is working with Canal+ Technologies (C+T) to develop a karaoke system using the C+T Mediahighway Platform. This karaoke system would enable subscribers of a pay music channel to sing-along while a song is playing. It is also in discussions with Canal+ Technologies to develop a cricketing application around the platform, according to an official release.
This would be based for the South Asian and Middle Eastern markets where Canal+ Technologies Mediahighway is already deployed. Recreate is also representing the interests of Canal+ Technologies in the Indian conditional access software market.
With Digital Interactive Television a UK based television company, Recreate is working on a new Bingo Channel through which users will be able to play Bingo live over channel. Bingo is a game similar to the homegrown tambola and through this gaming application; people will be able to play simultaneously through their set top boxes using their remote controls.
Recreate is also working with Insead, a French business school, to create interactive content and taking their entire online courses to disseminate through the broadband intranets.
According to Recreate Solutions CEO Bhaskar Majumdar, the contracts, won against stiff global competition, would lead Recreate into a cash flow positive status in this quarter.
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.
