News Broadcasting
BBC in talent hunt for second edition of ‘Jasoos Vijay’
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust is hiring. After a successful run of the first edition of its interactive TV detective series Jasoos Vijay, which airs every Sunday at 9:00 pm on DD- National, the NGO arm of BBC World Service is planning a second edition of the show with a few new additions to its team.
The international broadcaster has placed an advertisement in a daily tabloid inviting applications for full time as well as a few freelance posts. The series that has reportedly reached more than 40 per cent of the target population (some 34 million people), is looking for a senior producer, producers, production managers, art directors, costume designer, VT editors, chief assistant directors, assistant directors, assistant producers and finance assistant.
The broadcaster has also invited proposals from directors, directors of photography and scriptwriters on freelance basis. The deadline for the new recruits to come on board is May 2003. Applicants are requested to send their resume along with a covering letter to BBC’s New Delhi office on or before Saturday 26 April 2003.
The detective show is a part of BBC’s awareness campaign against AIDS in India done in partnership with Prasar Bharati and the National AIDS Control Organisation. With ace actor Om Puri as the interactive element Jasoos Vijay (played by Adil Khandakar Hussain) is a story of a pockmarked, every day guy, who while cracking tough cases makes people aware about the dangers of HIV/AIDS.
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.
