News Broadcasting
B4U music launches the ‘Best of…’ series
MUMBAI: 30 minutes of unadulterated, timeless, good music, is B4U Music’s recipe for a great Sunday brunch.
Starting 2 November, every Sunday at 11 am, B4U will air the best memorable songs of an acclaimed artist every week for a half hour, back-to-back in a brand new show Best of.
With the line up including likes of Lata Mangeshkar, AR Rahman, Kishore Kumar, Gulzar and international performers like Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, and Abba, the music channel plans to make Sunday noon an affair to remember.
Jumpstarting the whole series is the Best Of Lata Mangeshkar, which airs this Sunday. B4U has selected Lata’s songs, which are incredibly enchanting to the connoisseur of music, says a company release. The repeats of the programme will be aired on Tuesdays at 1 pm and Fridays at 9 pm.
Besides the musical odyssey, the audience also stand a chance of winning CDs & cassettes of all time hits of their favorite artists from the of HMV/Saregama repertoire.
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.
