News Broadcasting
IBN18 Q3 standalone net loss at Rs 109.6 mn
MUMBAI: IBN18 Broadcast Ltd has posted a standalone net loss of Rs 109.63 million for the quarter ended 31 December, marginally up from a net loss of Rs 104.05 million in the year-ago period.
The standalone results constitute the financials of English and Hindi news channels CNN IBN and IBN7.
For the quarter under review, total income increased 24.47 per cent to Rs 585.03 million. The company managed to keep the expenses under check at Rs 525.98 million, as compared to Rs 533.32 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.
In the quarter, IBN18 has reported operating profit of Rs 59.05 million, as compared to an operating loss of Rs 63.30 million in the prior-year period.
The company said in a statement that CNN IBN managed a 48 per cent Q-o-Q revenue growth, while IBN7 has seen a jump of 39 per cent in revenue. It also said that the Hindi news channel has achieved EBITDA break-even during the quarter.
IBN18’s consolidated net loss stood at Rs 106.06 million. Total income was at Rs 1.94 billion, while expenditure stood at Rs 1.85 billion for the quarter.
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.
