News Broadcasting
BSE imposes 25% margins on 4 media scrips
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has imposed special margins on 33 scrips, including four media shares.
The media firms included in the list of companies on which the margins were imposed are Padmalaya Telefilms, Pritish Nandy Communications, Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd and Tips Industries Ltd. The trading margins imposed on the four scrips are at 25 per cent.
Similar trading margins had been imposed on 11 February on three of the scrips in this list – Padmalaya, PNC and Sri Adhikari.
The rates of special margins have been revised keeping in view the closing price of the scrip on the last day of the settlement, a BSE release says.
Margin money is like a security deposit that is paid – which is held until a deal is complete and all monies are settled. The aim of margin money is to minimise the risk of default by either counter-party (buyer or seller). The payment of margin ensures that the risk is limited to the previous day’s price movement on each outstanding position. Such measures are normally taken by the exchange to check excessive speculative trading.
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.
