News Broadcasting
INX News ropes in Arup Ghosh as newsroom head
MUMBAI: Indrani and Peter Mukerjea’s INX News Pvt Ltd has announced the appointment of news broadcast veteran Arup Ghosh as its newsroom head.
Ghosh’s appointment marks the first senior level hire by INX News after the departure of its CEO and editorial head Vir Sanghvi and the recent summary dismissal of executive editor Avirook Sen and others.
Indrani Mukerjea said, “I am delighted to welcome Arup to the INX family as the newsroom head, and I am sure he will add immense value to the company. We will also shortly announce the appointment of our editor-in-chief.”
Ghosh said, “I really look forward to working with the team at INX. This is the perfect time in the industry to raise the bar where the English News genre is concerned, and I am very happy to be a part of the team who are committed to doing this.”
Ghosh’s television career started in 1995 with NDTV. He has at different points held top positions in Star News, Sahara Samay Rashtriya and Channel 7. Prior to joining INX News, Ghosh was running a consultancy firm called Network 1 Media Consultancy.
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.
