News Broadcasting
Bruce Dover to manage CNN’s television and web integration in Asia Pacific
Continuing CNN’s restructuring exercise, Bruce Dover has been named managing editor CNN Asia Pacific, it was announced today by Ian Macintosh, senior vice president, CNN International, Asia Pacific. Dover will be responsible for CNN’s television, website and integrated production in the region.
Dover will lead CNN’s production and editorial teams based at its Hong Kong regional news headquarters. Reporting to Ian Macintosh, he will be responsible for integration of CNN’s editorial output across all platforms and networks, according to a company release.
“Dover brings to this new position an impressive mix of editorial, managerial and business experience,” says Macintosh. “Since joining CNN.com last year he has provided superior leadership, focus and innovation, ensuring the successful creation and launch of CNN.com/Asia. He is ideally qualified to drive the integration of our newsgathering, production and online operations in Hong Kong.”
CNN’s Hong Kong regional news hub consists of 85 staff who produce more than 31 hours a week of programming including six prime-time regional programmes broadcast live daily, plus CNN’s first web site to be produced out of Asia, the newly launched CNN.com/Asia. The Hong Kong production facility is also the newsgathering headquarters for CNN’s nine bureaus operating in the region, including the recently opened Sydney bureau.
Dover joined CNN in August 2000 from News Interactive, the Australian online division of News Corporation, where he was the executive general manager since October 1998. Previous to this he was vice president in China for News Corporation, based in Beijing. Concurrently, he was the founding chief executive of PDN Xinren Pty Limited, a joint venture with the People’s Daily newspaper, which developed the first foreign joint venture Internet site, www.chinabyte.com.
Dover began his career as a political reporter for the Brisbane Telegraph newspaper. In 1986 he won The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his coverage in Asia.
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.
