News Broadcasting
CNN’s ‘Talk Asia’ features the founder of Oberoi Group
The 74-year-old hotelier P.R.S. Oberoi talks will feature on CNN's Talk Asia on 13 November at 9:30 am. The talk show will air at 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm also on the same day.
At the interview Oberoi talks about the influence of his father, founder of The Oberoi Group, on his life and career while reminiscing his first taste of the hospitality industry in his younger years.
In the half-hour interview, Oberoi also discusses the loss of his father, his mentor, and shares some of the lessons he learned before inheriting the hotel business.
In the course of the interview, Oberoi discloses some of his passions and hobbies outside of work, including breeding horses and polo-ponies and his involvement in the World Wide Fund for Nature. The interbiew concludes with he sharing his aspirations of having his son Vikram and nephew Arjun take over the family business.
The show will air its repeat telecast on 14 November at 8:30 pm as well as on 15 November at 9:00am.
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.
