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CNBC’s Ethiraj, NDTV’s Jain nominated for Teacher’s Achievement Awards
MUMBAI: Allied Domecq Spirits and Wines (India) has announced the nominees for the fourth Teacher’s Achievement Awards. The awards will be held in Delhi on 20 November 2004.
In the communication category CNBC-TV 18 corporate editor Govind Ethiraj and NDTV Mumbai beuareau chief Srinivasan Jain are among those competing for recognition. The sports category sees crickets ‘wall’ Rahul Dravid competing against car racer Narain Karthikeyan and badminton ace P Gopichand. The entertainment catregory sees Farhan Akhtar going up against actor Rahul Bose and director Santosh Sivan.
he media partners for the event are Radio Mirchi, NDTV and India Today. NDTV will telecast the event on 27 November 2004.
The awards recognise individual merit, with the twin objective of honouring excellence as well as exhorting others to scale new heights. This award programme is supported by Teacher’s 50, the Scotch whisky brand.
Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine (India) MD Harish Moolchandani said, “Our journey with the awards has been constantly reinforced and bolstered by the enthusiastic response we have received from the nominees and the jury members. As like every year we have further added new elements to enhance the glory of the awards and we look forward to inviting a new set of achievers to our family.
This year Allied Domecq has introduced an advisory panel for the awards. The members of the panel include ad man Piyush Pandey, former batsman Kris Srikkanth and Bombay Times editor Ayaz Memon.
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.
