News Broadcasting
Kermit Channel’s K2K plans for Y2K
The 40 year old Kermit Channel which entered India in 1999 has drawn up strategies for the year 2000. The Jim Henson Company’s and Hallmark Entertainment Television’s joint venture has drawn up a campaign which will be called “K2K” to design a creative platform to introduce viewers to the new programming that will be shortly premiered on the channel and to provide a timely and contemporary platform to showcase the human characteristics of ‘Kermit the Frog’s’ personality which viewers can identify with as a positive role model.
The K2K campaign would be an image campaign and would have a separate logo. It portrays Kermit as the world’s greenest friend, hero, heartthrob and a celebrity. New shows like ‘Jim Henson’s Construction Site’, ‘Brats of the last Nebula’ and ‘The secret world of Alex Mack’ would be introduced which have a blend of entertainment as well as educational value for the kids mainly aged between 2 and 12. The on-air and print campaigns for the K2K campaign have been designed in-house.
The 24 hour pay channel claims to have a penetration of over four million Indian households.
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.
