News Broadcasting
Cartoon Network spices up Sundays with ‘Cartoon Theatre’
Cartoon Network has announced a new initiative Cartoon Theatre to be launched from Sunday.
The programming block has been positioned as an optimum viewing destination for animated movies and cartoon series for the whole family. Cartoon Theatre will air from noon to 1:30 pm and again from 8 pm to 9:30 pm on 27 January. The block will air on the fourth Sunday of every month at the same time.
According to an official release, Cartoon Theatre will showcase Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones & Yogi Bear in Cartoon Theatre during the year. Titles include The Flintstones: On the Rocks, Scooby Meets the Boo Brothers and Yogi’s Great Escape, among others.
Fans can look forward to Cartoon Network’s tenth original half-hour animated series Samurai Jack, which will debut on the block. Created by Genndy Tartakovsky of Dexter’s Laboratory fame, Samurai Jack: The Trilogy is a 90-minute animated action series. The channel is banking on the series’ captivating backgrounds and stylish action scenes to draw in audiences. The story revolves around a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. Samurai Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of the time portal to return home and encounters trademarks of modern urban landscapes such as flying cars, huge skyscrapers and even techno music.
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.
