News Broadcasting
Jack Black to host 2006 MTV Video Music Awards
MUMBAI: MTV US president Christina Norman has announced that actor Jack Black (School Of Rock) will host the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. The event takes place on 31 August.
Norman says, “”Jack Black is the perfect mix of comedy, rock, irreverence, and star-power that will set the tone for an amazing show. His love of music and impeccable comic timing will rock the VMAs, NYC, and the entire world on 31 August.”
Black says, “My plan is to bring the thunder. I’ve got my top men working on it as we speak in my thunder laboratory. Radio City Music Hall will never be the same.”
Black and Kyle Gass together form Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed Greatest Band on Earth. They are getting ready to release their first film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny on 17 November.
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.
