News Broadcasting
Channel Guide in the red in 2001-2002 fiscal
Channel Guide has incurred losses worth Rs 15.28 million for the year ended 31 March 2002.
According to the financial results released by the company, its “income from operations” has decreased from Rs 12.8 million to Rs 11.5 million over last year’s figures thereby showing a drop of about 10 per cent. This, according to Channel Guide COO Ravi Deshmukh, is due to the stoppage of various leasing activities that were undertaken by the organisation in the past. At present, the company says it is concentrating solely on the recovery of outstanding dues.
The total expenditure of the company has risen by a whopping 300 per cent from Rs 8.77 million to Rs 23.94 million. This has been mainly attributed to the fact that last year’s balance sheet figures indicated business activities that were mainly non-media activities while the present balance sheet contains media activities.
Company sources attribute the drop of 30 per cent in the amount of depreciation from Rs 5.2 million to Rs 3 million to the same factor i.e. change in the mode of business. However, it is being reported that there has been no further leasing or no new purchase or sale of assets in the current year.
The company however hopes to reach break-even by the third quarter of the current fiscal.
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.
