News Broadcasting
CNBC-TV18 gives Mumbaikars a chance to ‘Get Rich’
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18, currently the leading English business news channel, is giving Mumbaikars an opportunity that they cannot refuse. Through its initiative, Get Rich with CNBC-TV18, it plans to impart knowledge about investment through interactions with experts, from 19 November across Mumbai.
This initiative will give viewers a platform to communicate with industry experts on the topic of how to grow their money.
“CNBC-TV18 has always believed in simplifying business, and providing accurate, actionable information. With ‘Get Rich’, we provide a platform to help provide a basic understanding of finance, investment and business. We hope by taking some of India’s best Financial experts across the country to engage with the average saver and investor, we will further the cause of intelligent investing,” said CNBC TV18 managing editor Shereen Bhan.
With camps across the city, the mission of this initiative reflects CNBC-TV18’s ultimate objective: to bring financial management and security to the common man. The first camp will be conducted at Tolani College of Commerce, Andheri, as investment experts Prakash Diwan and Mitesh Thacker interact with the audience at the venue. Diwan will provide insights into portfolio management and help with picks too, whereas Thacker will discuss about gap trading strategies in the Indian markets, in detail.
The camps will take place at 10 key areas across the city of Mumbai, and several other financial industry experts will be a part of this one-of-a-kind initiative.
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: 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.
