News Broadcasting
BBC World News to organise ‘Golf Connect’ tournament
MUMBAI: BBC World News is all set to organise the Golf Connect tournament, welcoming corporate leaders from across India. The channel will host the event on 27 February, 2016 in Gurgaon.
The event will be attended by more than 100 leading golfers from different types of businesses and will provide professional networking opportunity for the participants.
The event is in its 12th year and has seen participation from the likes of PepsiCo CEO D Shivakumar, Max New York Life Insurance CEO and MD Rajesh Sud, Cleartrip president and COO Samyukth Sridharan last year.
Participation to the evening is by invitation, though potential players can still register their interest via email to engage@bbc.com.
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.
