News Broadcasting
Laura Tunberg is MGM’s intellectual property enforcement VP
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios has promoted attorney Laura Tunberg to VP, intellectual property enforcement.
Tunberg will report to MGM’s senior executive VP and secretary William A. Jones. Tunberg also reports to MGM senior executive VP and general counsel Jay Rakow.
Jones added, “This promotion reflects the stellar job Laura has done in the anti-piracy area. Through her vigilance, tenacity and work ethic, she has become an integral part of the MGM team charged with the protection and enforcement of our intellectual property rights.”
Tunberg is MGM’s representative on the committee overseeing the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) worldwide anti-piracy programmes. As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com the MPA is seeking to collaborate with organisations like the Indian Music Industry to combat piracy in India. She also oversees security for MGM’s film and TV productions and post-production, replication, pre-release screenings and DVD and video production, replication and marketing. Tunberg also oversees enforcement actions against copyright violators of MGM’s products on the internet, optical discs and other formats and platforms.
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.
