News Broadcasting
Arianespace posts 50 m euro loss in 2002
PARIS: Private European rocket company Arianespace has posted a heavy operating loss of between 50 and 60 million euros (dollars) in the fiscal just ended. The company’s COO Jean-Yves Le Gall has been quoted in an AFP report warning of provisions following the failure of flight 157 in December 2002.
The company’s operating losses stand at around 50 to 60 million euros but the failure of flight 157 has forced it to raise the level of provisions, initially fixed at 50 million euros, to cover loss making launches in 2003.
Arianespace recorded sales of 1.3 billion euros last year, up from 807 million in 2001, with twelve launches.
In the report, Le Gall has been quoted as saying that Arianespace won 11 out of the total of 15 contracts up for grabs on the world satellite launch market and has 41 satellite launches on its order books. He disagreed with predictions that the company will see only two or three contracts in 2003. He noted that several satellite deployment failures in the last years have meant replacements are needed.
The company usually publishes final results in June.
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.
