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Chris Rock to host MTV Video Music awards in August
NEW YORK: Chris Rock, the host of the Emmy award winning show “Chris Rock show” will be back as host of the MTV Video Music Awards. The 20th annual awards show will be held on 28 August at Radio City Music Hall.
An Associated Press report states that Rock, the 37-year old comedian, is going on a cross-country club tour to prepare for the eagerly awaited event.
Recently, Rock has been focusing on films the past few years, including Down to Earth – a remake of Heaven Can Wait; Bad Company with Anthony Hopkins; and this year’s Head of State – his directorial debut, in which he starred as a presidential candidate.
But after having hosted the awards show in 1997 and 1999, Rock feels that much of the comedy springs organically from the antics of the invited guests and high profile presenters.
“You watch people host these shows who change outfits eight times in the show. No watch the show. That’s the most important thing,” Rock was quoted as saying in the AP report.
“Half the time the presenters don’t read what’s on the cue cards and you never know when Diana Ross is going to grab Lil’ Kim’s (breast), and you’d hate to miss that because you’re putting on something from Banana Republic.”
Rock was referring to one of the more outrageous moments in Video Music Award history in 1999, when Ross fondled rapper Lil’ Kim’s left breast, which was covered only in a lavender pasty.
Looks as Rock definitely enjoys every moment of the MTV music video awards.
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.
