News Broadcasting
Ekta Kapoor is E&Ys Start-up Entrepreneur Of The Year
Balaji Telefilms’ creative director Ekta Kapoor’s must be finding it difficult finding cupboard space going by the number of awards she has been collecting. Kapoor added another to the list when she was awarded the Ernst & Young (E&Y) Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) award for 2001 at a high-profile ceremony in Mumbai yesterday which had minister for information and broadcasting Sushma Swaraj and a host of industrialists and government officials in attendance.
Kapoor is the first woman entrepreneur to receive the coveted E&Y Startup Entrepreneur Of The Year award in India.
The main award of the night – Entrepreneur Of The Year – went to the promoter-chairman of Hero Honda, Brijmohan Lall Munjal. Yogesh Deveshwar, chairman of tobacco major ITC, won the Manager Entrepreneur Of The Year.
Jamshed J Irani, former managing director of Tata Steel, received a lifetime achievement award, while the four industry-category awards went to Suresh Krishna of Sundaram Fasteners (manufacturing), Prathap C Reddy of Apollo Hospitals (services), Jerry Rao of Mphasis BFL (information technology, communications and entertainment) and Anji Reddy of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (healthcare and life sciences).
The recipients were selected by a six-member jury, headed by Rahul Bajaj, chairman two-wheeler major Bajaj Auto.
The Ernst & Young EOY Programme was first established in the United States in 1986 and is now conducted in over 20 countries. The awards came to India in 1999.
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.
