News Broadcasting
Channel Guide gets teleport licence in Mumbai
MUMBAI: Digital satellite TV guide cum info TV channel, Channel Guide India Limited has obtained a teleport license from the ministry of information and broadcasting.
According to a company release, transponder space has already been booked on Insat 3A .
Besides being used in house, the teleport would also cater to other channels using Insat 3A as a platform. Insat 3A is fast emerging as a popular Hot-Bird over India. This would be the first private satellite TV teleport in Mumbai, says the release.
According to Channel Guide managing director Rajesh Jain, the company has already received serious enquiries from prospective customers. Besides Channel Guide’s teleport, the only other teleport in Mumbai is VSNL’s teleport, which caters to Thaicom Clients
While the company is in the process of zeroing in on suitable location for setting up the teleport, the company has already assembled state of the art back-end facilities like shooting floor / studio for live broadcasts and tape-less play out matching international teleports to which Indian broadcasters have been accustomed to, the release states.
The teleport would also be available for occasional users/SNG services. Channel Guide hopes to commission the services within the next two to three months.
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.
