News Broadcasting
Luke Chen Li Chien is NDS China COO
MUMBAI: The News Corp owned NDS Group which provides technology solutions for digital pay TV, has appointed Luke Chen Li Chien as NDS China COO.
Chen assumes responsibility for NDS China operations including account management, support, delivery and marketing. He reports to NDS China GM Gary Zhou Yi Gang.
NDS Asia Pacific VP, GM Sue Taylor said, “Mr. Chen’s first priority will be to support the growing number of NDS China customers. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in digital TV delivery and account support in China. He brings the expertise and professionalism of a Fortune 500 company to NDS China.”
Chen’s career spans three decades of hardware and software testing, engineering and customer support. Chen is an authority on integrated circuit testing and engineering. Recent positions that he has held include chief representative of Texas Instruments China in Beijing, and Digivision Technology GM in Shanghai.
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.
