News Broadcasting
Discovery US enhances its online news service
MUMBAI: US broadcaster Discovery has enhanced its Discovery News service to include daily video webcasts, featuring breaking news in areas of increasing concern for consumers
As the first major feature of these video webcasts, Discovery News has broken a story from Montana, where Jack Horner, renowned paleontologist and chief curator of the Museum of the Rockies discovered the fossil of a baby triceratops skull, only the sixth ever found.
Horner says, “Over the years people have been out here in the Hell Creek formation collecting dinosaurs and almost all that’s been collected are adults. The best thing about this little triceratops is that it is actually a baby. This is probably one of the best baby triceratops skulls
ever found.” Horner says that the baby triceratops discovery is significant as younger
fossils can answer many questions about the growth and development of triceratops
The broadcaster says that the discovery reflects the type of subjects to be explored on the new
Discovery News webcast. The news service will provide consumers fast, in-depth and relevant information in the areas of science, nature, health, travel, all things about planet earth and current affairs.
Discovery senior executive VP for strategy and development Don Baer says, “Expanding Discovery News into broadband video taps into the public’s confidence in our ability to bring them trusted and timely factual information about some of the most important topics in the world.
“To have landed an exclusive story of the magnitude of Jack Horner’s find, and right in the sweet spot of our core DNA of content
strength demonstrates Discovery’s ability to cover breaking real-world news
while expanding ways consumers count on Discovery to bring them the whole
world.”
Discovery News Broadband and Narrowband Features Updated daily with original short-form video that is searchable for consumers at any time, Discovery News says that it offers cutting-edge perspective and commentary from multiple video sources. The company is tapping an in-house development and editorial team.
It has also announced an agreement for video
content from Associated Press Television News. Other news organisation partnerships, as well as the cultivation of new journalists and
personalities, will be announced in the coming weeks. Stories running on the video player include a segment on the recent flooding of the
National Archives and the road to reopening its doors.
In conjunction with the launch of the daily video news webcast, Discovery says that it has has more than doubled the amount of coverage of text-based news on its narrowband site discoverychannelnews.com, which now features 10 genre-specific subject pages across the company’s core content areas.
Stories currently on the Discovery News text website that reflect topics of particular interest to Discovery viewers include a report on a new study related to global warming and a piece about a species of shark in danger of
extinction, among many others.
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.
