News Broadcasting
Getty Images signs exclusive licensing agreement with CNN
Seattle headquartered Getty Images has announced that it will be the exclusive distributor of still images collected from CNN footage.
The company, which claims to be the leading provider of imagery and related products and services, says it has customers in more than 50 countries and that nearly 40 per cent of its revenues come from outside North America. The exclusive licensing agreement with CNN increases the number of news images Getty can offer to its editorial customers. The deal allows Getty Images to capture and license footage from all of CNN’s networks including CNN, CNN Headline News, CNNfn and CNN International.
As part of the agreement, Getty Images will create stills based on relevant CNN television footage and make it available for high-speed electronic browsing, downloading and distribution on gettyimages.com. Customers can choose from stills of breaking news as well as of established and recognised CNN programmes and features.
Getty Images’ news and sports photography of major news events such as 9/11, the ongoing overseas military action and the Olympics has appeared on the covers of publications including Time, Newsweek and The Economist. Getty Images is the official photographer or photographic partner to more than 40 major sports organisations including the International Olympic Committee and the NBA, the company claims.
CNN’s reach currently extends to 16 cable and satellite television networks, three private place-based networks, two radio networks, wireless devices around the world and 13 websites, says the company.
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.
