News Broadcasting
Lycos reports jump in visits to football online sites
MUMBAI: The online entertainment destination for creators and consumers of quality content, Lycos has announced data from The Lycos 50. It is the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending 17 June 2006.
In The Lycos 50 top 10, the search results for football sites is at number nine, up 59 per cent over the previous week.
Interest in the 2006 Fifa World Cup soccer tournament has driven World Cup in terms of searches.
Also scoring big online is American Idol reject Elliott Yamin at number 21 generating 667 per cent more online interest than winner Taylor Hicks, who actually dropped off that week’s list.
In terms of search, poker was at number one. Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton and MySpace are also in the top 10.
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.
