News Broadcasting
CNN to air ‘Defining Moments’ of the year
MUMBAI: CNN will review the highs and lows of 2005 in a special half-hour retrospective Defining Moments.
This will air on 24 December 2005 at 10 am, 6 pm, on 25 December at 11 am, 9 pm, on 31 December at 6 pm, 1 January 2006 at 11 am and at 9 pm.
Correspondents including Christiane Amanpour, Ben Wedeman and Robin Oakley will all provide inputs.
2005 has been a year of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Mumbai floods, and the Pakistani earthquake. There were terrorist attacks in London, Sharm El Sheikh and Bali. There were pivotal moments such as the passing of Pope John Paul II and the installation of Pope Benedict XVI..
The year’s political landscape included turmoil with the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister, the protests that followed and the Syrian troop withdrawal, as well as the controversial elections; ongoing turbulence in Iraq , punctuated by a successful referendum to approve their new constitution. A number of countries saw voters heading for the polls in national elections including the UK, Afghanistan and Germany where the first female Chancellor was elected.
Sporting feats have included Lance Armstrong’s record breaking seventh Tour de France, Tiger Woods’ fourth Masters title. Meanwhile, cricket was revived in England when the team led by Michael Vaughan beat Australia and regained the Ashes after nearly two decades. London beat Paris for the rights to host the Olympic Games in 2012. Fernando Alonso was the youngest ever winner of Formula 1 while Roger Federer and Venus Williams won Wimbledon for the third time.
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.
