News Broadcasting
CNBC India’s ‘Telecom Turf’ focuses on future of industry
MUMBAI:Corporate chieftains and bigwigs from Indian industry attended the interactive session organised on 19 July in Mumbai by CNBC India and Computer Associates.
The first of its kind corporate colloquium of the Indian telecom industry, ‘Telecom Turf’ dealt with several issues including
# Challenges faced by the telecom sector in current scenario
# The parameters for growth in this sector
# Various developments on limited mobility telephony
# Funding pressure
# Price wars
# Consolidation in the industry.
# Participations by the private sectors
# The future of the telecom sector as a whole and it’s impact.
The speakers included Zee Televentures’ Amitabh Kumar, BPL Mobile’s F B Cardozo, Motorola CEO Pramod Saxena, ABTO president Rajiv Mehrotra and Videsh Sanchar Nigam managing director S K Gupta.
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.
