News Broadcasting
NDS acquires some assets of itv company IDP
LONDON: News Corporation’s NDS Group which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV has announced that it has acquired certain assets of the French interactive TV technology company Interactif Delta Production SA (IDP). IDP was recently put into administrative receivership by the Tribunal de Commerce of Paris.
An official release informs that NDS has acquired, for a consideration of 200,000, all of IDP’s intellectual property assets including the RegieLine interactive application authoring tool and the patents protecting this technology as well as certain tangible assets and customer contracts.
A research and development centre will be retained in Paris that will employ nine former employees of IDP and will provide ongoing services to the existing customers of IDP both in France and abroad.
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.
