News Broadcasting
CNBC-TV18 introduces #CNBCTV18Tweetathon on its 20th anniversary
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18, country’s leading English business news platform is hosting India’s biggest business unconference on Twitter on 6th December. To mark its 20th anniversary the channel is introducing #CNBCTV18Tweetathon, an unconventional conference with renowned personalities like Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor – CNBC-TV18, Basant Maheshwari, Amish Tripathi, Milind Soman, Malini Agarwal, Chef Kunal Kapur, Ashwin Sanghi, Pooja Dhingra and Bhuvan Bam. Tweetathon will cover a wide range of topics right from health and fitness to building one's empire by just using their phone.
CNBC-TV18 will give fans and followers on Twitter an opportunity to ask questions directly to some of India’s most celebrated personalities. To catch all the fun, stay tuned on CNBCTV18’s twitter account – @CNBCTV18News on 6th December and use the hashtag #CNBCTV18Tweetathon to ask your questions.
Link to the video – https://we.tl/t-loWx2yhUbI
Below is the schedule for CNBCTV18Tweetathon:
|
Name |
Title |
Topic |
Start Time |
End Time |
|
Basant Maheshwari |
Investor |
Psychological traps to avoid while investing |
10:00 |
11:00 |
|
Milind Soman |
Actor/ Supermodel |
How successful people start their day |
11:00 |
12:00 |
|
Biz Quiz |
NA |
NA |
12:00 |
13:00 |
|
Kunal Kapur |
Celebrity Chef |
Eat right, work smart. |
13:00 |
14:00 |
|
Pooja Dhingra |
Pastry Chef/ Author |
Baking your own destiny |
14:00 |
15:00 |
|
Ashwin Sanghi |
Author |
How to achieve bloody good wealth |
15:00 |
16:00 |
|
Shereen Bhan |
Managing Editor – CNBC-TV18 |
20 years with CNBC-TV18 |
16:00 |
16:30 |
|
Riddle me this |
NA |
NA |
16:30 |
17:00 |
|
Miss Malini |
Entertainment blogger |
Little things to do while building your business |
17:00 |
18:00 |
|
Amish Tripathi |
Best-selling Author |
Entering a new chapter of your life |
18:00 |
19:00 |
|
Bhuvan Bam |
Content Creator |
How to build your empire with just your phone |
19:00 |
20:00 |
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.
