News Broadcasting
CASBAA to sponsor regional Emmys voting in Hong Kong
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will sponsor the 2002 International Emmy Awards regional voting in Hong Kong, which takes place on 13 July.
CASBAA member companies invited to sit on the judging panel include I-Cable, China Entertainment Television, STAR Group, TVBI, Celestial Pictures Asia and Columbia Tristar Asia Pacific.
The Hong Kong regional voting is being hosted by CASBAA-member company Media Financial Services (MFS) and is supported by CASBAA member Bloomberg Television.
Bloomberg is supplying the venue for the Hong Kong round of judging, while Michael Spiessbach, chairman of MFS, will act as host and organiser of the event, says an official release. The International Emmys are organised by the New York-based International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the 2002 awards will be held in November at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
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.
