News Broadcasting
Animal Planet up to ‘Monkey Business’ this month
MUMBAI: .Monkeys rule the roost on Animal Planet this month.
The broadcaster has announced a new series. Monkey Business which will air on Tuesdays at 6 :30 pm sees how monkeys like humans also have lovers quarrels, jealousy, desire.
The show takes viewers to Europe’s largest ape sanctuary.and catches the antics of the residents.
The episode that airs tomorrow 2 November at 6:30 pm looks at a baby orangutan Gordon as he gets a new father.He and his siblings Ben and Pip were abandoned by their mother a year ago.
The broadcaster will also showcase the challenges of Growing Up Wild. This series will air every Thursday at 9 pm. In the first episode Elephants viewers see the birth of a baby elephant Max. Clouded Leopards will showcase a pair of clouded Leopard cubs who are born and raised in captivity. Wolves sees six gray Timber Wolf pups being raised by human caretakers before being returned to their mother.
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.
