News Broadcasting
Good Morning India to launch two news channels
MUMBAI: To the ever-growing list of companies entering the news broadcasting arena, add Good Morning India, publisher of Hindi current affairs magazine India News.
Promoted by Kartik Sharma, son of former Union minister Venod Sharma, Good Morning India will be launching a Hindi language news channel as well as an English one.
“We have got the license from the (information & broadcasting) ministry for both the channels. The Hindi news channel will be called Ab Tak while the English news channel is likely to be called ITV News,” a source close to the developments avers.
“The Hindi news channel will launch first, by year-end, to be followed later by the English news channel,” the source adds.
While refusing to divulge any details about the investments being made, the source confirms that the company is expanding in the print space as well, and will be launching an English weekly and a Hindi newspaper.
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.
