News Broadcasting
150 bollywood stars to adorn Zee Cine awards
MUMBAI: When they say star-studded affair, do they mean it! Zee will be playing host to 150 Bollywood stars at its Zee Cine Awards ’04.
Film actors including Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Kajol, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, John Abraham, Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Manisha Koirala, Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan, Jeetendra, Vivek Oberoi, Shilpa Shetty, Juhi Chawla, Jackie Shroff, Kareena Kapoor and Celina Jaitley will be attending the function.
Not only will these celebrities will be hosted at The Hyatt in Dubai, the sponsors and the Zee Cine Management team will be presenting them with lavish gifts and prizes like gold jewelry and cars, says a company release.
Touted as the most democratic award, Zee Cine Awards has enabled 20,00,000 fans across the globe to get a chance to vote for their favourite artist.
A special chartered plane, has been arranged to transport all the performers and celebrities from Mumbai to Dubai. The star performers of the evening include Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Lara Dutta. Besides a chance to witness Hrithik Roshan’s debut performance in Dubai, the audiences will also be treated to Shekhar Suman and Pakistan’s Omar Sharif’s star comic act.
An estimated figure of 6000 is expected to be present at the event, 1000 of which will be flown from India. The release adds that people all over the world, including from Pakistan would be coming down to Dubai for the event.
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.
