News Broadcasting
Bloomberg opens new office in Mumbai to expand ops in India
MUMBAI: Bloomberg has announced opening of its new office in Mumbai. The move has more than tripled the size of its office, which accommodate increased customer support for its customer base in India and an expanded news reporting operation that has doubled the number of its reporters in the last two years, the company said.
The Bloomberg Professional service, which it claims is used by more than 300,000 of the world’s leading business and financial professionals, is bringing further transparency to India’s growing financial services sector.
The Bloomberg Professional service provides real-time access to the data, analytics and local and global financial news and market data analysis, as well as portfolio management tools, electronic trading and order management systems.
“We experienced 18 per cent growth in India last year alone, and we are investing in our India operations to continue this expansion and deliver our trusted financial news, data and analytics to India’s increasingly important financial sector,” said Bloomberg chairman Peter Grauer.
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.
