News Broadcasting
DD-1 to telecast 2006 Fifa WC finals live
MUMBAI: With only one day to go for the big event, Doordarshan has secured the telecast rights for four matches of the 2006 Fifa World Cup, including the big final to be played on 9 July.
The rights allow the channel to telecast the opening ceremony live from Germany on Friday 9 June from 7 50 pm to 8 30 pm on DD-1. This will be followed by a live telecast of the opening match between Germany Vs. Costa Rica from Munich, from 9 30 pm to 11 30 pm.
The semi finals to be held on 4 and 5 July respectively, will also be telecast live on DD-1.
As mentioned earlier, the final on 9 July will be telecast at 11 30 pm on DD-1 on terrestrial mode.
Meanwhile, a one hour capsule of highlights of daily matches will also be telecast from 4 pm to 5 pm from 10 to 28 June and in the first week of July.
To key in on all the action, every match telecast on the channel will be preceeded and followed by a pre-match and post-match analysis.
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.
