News Broadcasting
Anil Ambani Group plans to list 4 companies by Q1 2006
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani is listing four of his companies including the telecom venture formed via a spin off of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on the stock exchange by the first quarter of 2006.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group will attempt to list Reliance Communications Ventures, Reliance Energy Ventures, Reliance Capital Ventures and Global Fuel Management Services at the earliest.
Reliance Communications Ventures is the telecom arm of the ADA Group holding Reliance Infocomm and the GSM business. Ambani has ambitious plans of rolling out IPTV and has also applied for a licence to operate direct-to-home (DTH) business.
As part of his entertainment plans, he acquired Adlabs Films which is into film processing and multiplex business. Adlabs is also looking at foraying into the private FM radio sector.
The ADA group will seek an approval from the capital market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to list shares in the four companies without making an initial public offering (IPO), it said in a release.
Under the terms of an agreement approved by RIL’s board in August 2005 and sanctioned by the Bombay High Court earlier this month, RIL shareholders will get free shares in the four companies. The release adds that only those investors, who buy shares in RIL on or before 17 January, would be entitled to free shares in the four companies.
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.
