News Broadcasting
‘Get Gorgeous’ II final to air on 11 June
MUMBAI: There is no end to reality based programmes the on small screen.
Channel [V]’s Get Gorgeous II will beam its grand finale on 11 June at 6 pm.
The channel has been scouting for the country’s hottest face.
After screening thousands of contenders,the judges —designer and choreographer Hemant Trevedi, model-turned-actor Milind Soman and model Noyonika Chatterjee — will pick the winner from the four shortlisted for the final round.
The contenders, according to a release from Channel [V], would walk the ramp at India Fashion Week 2005.
The four final contestants are Sudharani Gupta from Mumbai, Priyanka Shah from Pune, Malika Jan and Tina Noronha from Bangalore.
The winner of this nationwide search for the hottest face will bag a two-year contract with Channel [V] and Elite Model Management, apart from being the face of the next LG CDMA campaign.
In addition, there would be a slew of modeling campaigns for the winner,including one with designers Narendra Kumar & Savio.
The channel claims that in Mumbai, the second episode of Get Gorgeous II garnered 1.3 TVR, commanding close to 10 per cent of the total TV viewing audience and 70 per cent of the music genre shares.
Hosted by last year’s Get Gorgeous contest winner Archana Vijaya, the new series launched on 23 April this year.
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.
