News Broadcasting
Gene Hackman to be honoured at 60th Golden Globe Awards
HOLLYWOOD: Veteran actor Gene Hackman The French Connection has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field,”
The award, voted by the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be presented to Hackman at the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held on 19 January. In the US it will telecast live on NBC (8-11 pm EST). In India it will probably air on one of the Star channels live in the morning on 20 January. The event will take place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Golden Globe nominations in the film and television categories will be announced on 19 December.
An official release informs that Hackman won a Golden Globe last year in the comedy category for The Royal Tennenbaums. Last year Harrison Ford was the recepient of the Cecil B. DeMille award.
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.
