News Broadcasting
BBC Tours wins silver in Visit London Awards
MUMBAI: BBC Tours in the UK has won the silver award in the Tour London Category of the Visit London Awards.
Around 50,000 people visit BBC Tours every year to see the UK pubcaster’s television centre in Wood Lane, west London.Nine tours of the centre are held daily, Monday to Saturday, and a new CBBC tour has been introduced for children.
On the tours visitors are likely to see television studios, BBC News and get the chance to use an interactive studio. On the CBBC tour, children also see studios where CBBC presenters work and may visit the Blue Peter garden.
BBC director of marketing, communications and audiences Tim Davie said, “This is a fantastic achievement by everybody involved with BBC Tours and is all the more impressive when you consider that London has so many attractions to visit. Thanks to BBC Tours thousands of people have enjoyed an insight into what goes on behind the scenes at Television Centre.”
BBC Tours took the silver award behind the London Eye in the Tour London category. Last year the London Eye was voted the world’s leading attraction by travel agents worldwide.
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
