News Broadcasting
CNN.com rated No.1 news site in August
MUMBAI: Online tracking companies Nielsen NetRatings and Media Metrix have declared CNN.com as the leading news and information site for the month of August.
A study by Media Metrix reveals that more than 21 million unique users visited CNN.com during August, thus showing continued growth since the beginning of the year, says an official release. CNN.com attracts most users from home and work, it adds.
The two tracking systems further state that since September last year, CNN.com has outperformed all online news competition during 11 of 12 months.
The reach of CNN, a division of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. extends to 15 cable and satellite television networks, three private place-based networks, two radio networks, wireless devices around the world, 12 Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information web site, and CNN Newsource, an extensively syndicated news service
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.
