News Broadcasting
Four Soft Limited to tap capital market in Dec ’03
MUMBAI: Four Soft Limited, an existing profit making and dividend paying company, engaged in the business of product development and sale of web-centric Enterprise Wide Solutions for the Supply Chain services industry, is tapping the capital market through the Initial Public Offer (IPO) route in December 2003. The company has already filed a draft prospectus to this effect with SEBI.
Four Soft Limited is making a public issue of 79,50,000 equity shares of Rs 5 each for cash at a premium of Rs 20 per share aggregating Rs 19.875 crore. The company’s paid up equity share capital would increase from the current Rs 11.89 crore to Rs 15.86 crore after the equity issue.
UTI Securities Limited is the Lead Manager to the issue, while Karvy Consultants Limited is the Registrar to the issue. The equity shares are proposed to be listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.
The proceeds of the issue would be utilised in the setting up of an international marketing network, to fund its inorganic growth initiatives, to expand the company’s existing facilities and to meet its product development and R&D expenses.
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.
