News Broadcasting
Global net TV firm Internet Broadcast offers searchable global news broadcasts
MUMBAI: Canadian Internet TV news network, Internet Broadcast Corporation www.ibctoday.com, formerly known as MediaScrape has released new navigation expanding access to world television news.
The company which claims to have thousands of users in the US and other countries has also announced a new broadcast partner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and a goal to be the number one global Internet video news source.
Internet Broadcast Corporation (ibcToday) says that it is the first Internet TV News Network to digitise analogue TV broadcasts in a format that is high quality video, on-demand, translated, interactive, free, searchable and archived.
ibcToday publisher Tyler Cavell says, “This name change reflects ibcToday’s goal to be the leading international Internet TV News Network. The new name explains more clearly what we are, and translates easier to our global users.”
The site currently has registered users from 91 countries and broadcasts two hours of news clips a day from North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. To achieve the company’s goal of providing more information in a user-friendly environment ibcToday has employed groundbreaking navigational techniques, including ajax.net components.
This technology allows ibcToday to retrieve data for the user without refreshing the page, stopping the video or hindering site performance. Another new feature is ‘one-stop-shop’ navigation, which enables users to watch video while browsing the top stories from other regions.
Internet Broadcast Corporation recently signed an agreement with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to broadcast their top national and international stories. The CBC joins ibcToday’s other video news agencies and wholesalers, including AP, Canadian Press and Dogan News Agency. Internet Broadcast Corporation has also signed partnerships with local television broadcasters from Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia and expects to sign on more than a hundred countries over the next year.
Updated every 30 minutes, 24-hours a day, Internet Broadcast Corporation also features message boards, blogs and user submitted content. By offering its Internet video services free of charge to the public ibcToday aims to become the number one Internet television news network.
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.
