News Broadcasting
BBC World to showcase ‘India Week
MUMBAI: BBC World is celebrating a week-long dedicated Indian programming branded block from 15 October. Branded as India Week, the channel will have extensive coverage on variety of news and features from the sub continent.
World Business Report and Asia Business Report will take a look at the Indian economy, the vision of 8 per cent growth and the upward graph of the stock market.
Hardtalk comes to India on India Week with host Stephen Sackur meeting various personalities ranging from Indian politics and economy.
Yet another major highlight of India Week will be the show Talking Point which will be broadcasting from India where viewers will be able to share their views on topical issues and put their questions directly to leading figures on the panel.
India Week will highlight show such BBC News, BBC News Extra, and Asia Today . The channel will feature live news and presentation from the capital New Delhi, covering a wide range of topics and issues.
The show Click Online will be from Bangalore and wiill also feature reports from Hyderabad with two special editions. Stephen Cole will meet some of the biggest names of the Indian IT industry and take a look at the growth in this sector.
Presenter Akhtar Khan and the Fast Track team will travel to India on India Week.
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.
