News Broadcasting
Broadcast Asia to be held from 5-8 June
The event which marks the coming together of all the industry people for latest developments in the broadcasting world and also for networking with peers is here. Broadcast Asia will be held from 5 June to 8 June in Singapore.
The conference begins on 5 June with the opening session on Visualising MPEG Tutorial conducted by Dr Michale Isnardi of Sarnoff Research Corporation.
6 June will see parallel sessions on Digital experience and Multimedia in the year 2000 being held simultaneously. The session on Multimedia in the Year 2000 will be presented by British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (BKSTS).
7 June will have two parallel sessions throughout the day. One session will see parallel session on Digital Delivery and Audio and Text. The second parallel session will deal with Television & Multimedia and Delivery Networks – Vehicles.
The final day, 8 June will continue with 2 parallel sessions in throughout the day. The first session will be on Production and TV-Internet-TV. The final session will deal with Studio Technology and Business Opportunities. This will be followed by a closing debate.
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: 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.
