News Broadcasting
Gyan Darshan to air a technical education channel GD3
MUMBAI: The All India Council for Technical Education has launched GD-3 an education channel, exclusively for technical education.
The AICTE, has in a notice in a daily today, said that the ministry of human resource development has launched GD3 on 26 January 2003. The target group of the educational channel, a subsidiary of DD’s own education channel Gyan Darshan, is essentially students of engineering colleges. Information provided will be useful for the general public as well, the notice says.
Coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, the venture has all the IITs participating. The channel is uplinked through the infrastructure at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
GD3 will telecast 16 hours of curriculum-based programmes every day for undergraduate studies in engineering and technology. According to the notice, it is estimated that the channel will be watched by nearly 1.5 million students studying at 1200 engineering and technology colleges across the country. Programme schedules of GD3 are available at www.gyandarshan.ernet.in.
All AICTE approved technical institutions have been asked to install the downlink immediately and has urged technical institutions in the country, particularly engineering colleges, to broadcast GD3, as an essential part of their academic infrastructure.
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.
