News Broadcasting
Dori to launch Telenovella channel in Indonesia
MUMBAI: International media company Dori Media International (DMI) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Indovision, Indonesia’s first Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) provider, to launch a Telenovela TV channel in Indonesia.
DMI will create, produce, acquire and package all content for the channel at its own expense, which will be branded under DMI’s International brand as well as under Indovision’s brand called Vision 2. The agreement is for a minimum period of 10 years, during which Indovision will pay DMI a consideration of 50 per cent from any income derived from the channel.
Vision 2 is expected to be launched in March 2006 as the first telenovela dedicated channel in South East Asia. The channel will broadcast between 18 and 24 hours of programming per day and will be dubbed in Bahasa Indonesia.
DMG president and CEO Nadav Palti commented, “We are very excited to launch our first international TV channel according to the planned schedule. This is in line with our strategy to become a leading international Telenovela broadcaster. Indonesia is a key market in South East Asia, and Indovision is a natural partner for us being the largest DTH operator in Indonesia and is expected to extend the reach of the channel to millions of households in the country.”
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.
