News Broadcasting
Disney CEO Eisner to step down in 2006
MUMBAI: Walt Disney has said that its CEO Michael Eisner will step down in September 2006, when his contract expires.
In a letter to the Disney board Eisner said, “Until then I shall continue to exert every effort to help the company achieve our goals, to assist the board in selecting the new chief executive officer, and to make the transition expeditious, efficient, and smooth and easy.
“I know that it has been a very challenging time for the board members during this period, and I am most grateful for all of the time and effort, consideration and support, and concern for the company that all of you have demonstrated.”
However Antony Gifford, who helps manage about $2 billion of US stocks at Henderson Global Investors in London was quoted in a Bloomberg report expressing disappointment that Eisner would only leave after another two years.
” We believe that Disney has some attractive assets that are worth more than the share price suggests. But Eisner wasn’t the man to unlock that value.”
Meanwhile, in an earlier interview with the Wall Street Journal, Eisner had maintained that he didn’t make the decision to step down because of pressure from Roy Disney and Gold or Comcast’s takeover bid.
As had been reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, Eisner had earlier said that he wanted Disney President and COO Robert Iger to succeed him. However, in his letter to the board, Eisner made no mention of Iger
It may be recalled that in November 2003 former Disney directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold had resigned from the board to wage a campaign against Eisner.
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.
