News Broadcasting
Crest’s Q2 net profit at Rs 5.5 million
MUMBAI: Crest Animation Studios Limited (CASL) has reinforced its turnaround performance for the second quarter ended September 2004, having come back into the black in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
During the last quarter, the company has registered a net Profit of Rs 5.5 million as against a loss of Rs 11.2 million for the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
The company registered a 74 per cent jump in total income at Rs 71.3 million as compared to Rs 41.1 million for the second quarter of the previous year. Operating profit margin has surged to 38.06 per cent during the September ended quarter, from 15.28 per cent in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Profit before interest depreciation and tax has shot up to Rs 26.9 million as against Rs 5.71 million during the same period.
For the first half of the current fiscal, the company’s total income stood at Rs 140.1 million, up by 64 per cent from Rs 85.4 million a year ago.
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.
