News Broadcasting
CNN.com ranks as top news website during US Democratic convention
MUMBAI: Cable News Network’s website CNN.com has garnered the most users among news organisation websites for all four days of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, averaging nearly 4.2 million unique US home and work users on a daily basis according to Nielsen NetRatings’ custom analysis.
In addition, CNN.com has also out-ranked other news organisation websites in the amount of time a user spends on the site. Each user spent an average of nearly 8.5 minutes on the site each day. According to Nielsen NetRatings’ Home and Work Panel, CNN.com continues to rank as the top current events and global news destination with more than 23 million people reached on an average monthly basis during the first six months of 2004.
During the Democratic National Convention, CNN.com offered live video feeds of the events, a convention weblog, analysis and opinion from CNN television experts – including Paul Begala, Wolf Blitzer, Tucker Carlson and Carlos Watson – as well as a daily viewing guide, breaking and developing news coverage, bios of the key players and transcripts of the featured speeches.
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.
