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Yash Chopra festival on Sony begins Saturday
Starting tomorrow, Sony Entertainment Television will be showcasing "King of Hearts – The Yash Chopra Film Festival.
Featuring 14 films created by Yash Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films, the titles span three decades of Hindi cinema. This festival presents the work, the movies, the signature music and the inimitable style of arguably one of the greatest celluloid storytellers of our times – Yash Chopra.
From Daag to Dil To Pagal Hai, the festival will treat viewers to seven weekends of glorious cinema, every Saturday at 8 pm and every Sunday at 9.30 PM Starting today, the festival runs till 15 July.
The festival does not stop at these 14 movies. Every Saturday at 7.30 PM, The Making of A Classic – a special half-hour feature on the making of the movie being telecast the same night. Yash Chopra, the actors and the technicians get nostalgic about making the movies. Also planned is a half-hour episode that will feature hit songs from Yash Chopra movies that have been performed in various concerts earlier.
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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.
