News Broadcasting
CNBC reports a net profit of Rs 130.73 mn
MUMBAI: TV Eighteen annual results for the year ended 31 March 2004 reports their net profit at Rs.130.73 million excluding forex gains/losses and deferred tax adjustment. Their revenue from operations is Rs 537.02 million breaking up into news operations generating Rs 518.33 million, entertainment operations generating Rs 6.55 million and Internet and software operations generating Rs 12.14 million. Operating profit was at Rs.229.19 million and operating margin at 42.68 per cent.
Their earning per share (EPS) was Rs 8.76 excluding forex gains/losses & deferred tax adjustment. A point to note is that the financial performance for TV Eighteen has been measured for Television Eighteen Group on a consolidated basis. This includes TV 18 India and its subsidiary companies TV 18 Mauritius, Eighteen Entertainment India, E18 and MCD. Hence, this year the results were published after the JV with CNBC has been restructured. Accordingly, the current results are based on a substantially different structure of revenues and costs as compared to results published for previous year, therefore these figures cannot be made a base for comparison.
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.
