News Broadcasting
Iraq poll results live on NDTV tonight
MUMBAI: NDTV 24×7 & NDTV India will be releasing the results of a poll on Iraq on the 9 pm news in Hindi and English from tonight for four days, two questions at a time.
The channel has been conducting an opinion poll among a sample of 1000 people in Baghdad recently. This, according to NDTV, is not only the first opinion poll among the Iraqi people since the war, it is the first poll in Iraq in 25 years. The NDTV team that managed the poll had a tough job, considering the hassles journalists had to go through.
The poll will provide answers to what everyone has been wondering about what the people of Iraq are thinking.
The poll will answer questions like – what the people of Iraq really think of the American invasion, do the people of Iraq welcome America or not, do the people of Iraq want the Americans to stay on and re-build the country or get out now, if Saddam is caught, do the Iraqi people want him punished or set free, are the American troops on the streets of the cities being harsh or kind to the people of Iraq?
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.
