News Broadcasting
Media personalities honoured at CNBC TV 18 economic conclave
NEW DELHI: Not only media was in full force at the CNBC TV 18 Economic Conclave, organised on the occasion of completion of five years on the business channel, but media personalities were honoured too.
Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra was one of the recipients of the CNBC TV 18 Commendation for Business Leadership and Excellence.
The show reel hailed Chandra as a pioneer in satellite television in India and commended him for building up a business empire in the media sector from the scratch, which, today, is a world class outfit.
Giving him company from the media sector was Sun TV chairman Kalanidhi Maran, hailed as the king of the South Indian television.
The others who also received the CNBC TV 18 commendation included SEBI chief GN Bajpai, ICICI chairman KV Kamath, LG Electronics India MD KR Kim, Bharti Enterprise CMD Sunil Mittal, Hero Honda chairman Pawan Munjal, HCL technology chairman and CEO Shiv Nadar and HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh.
Mittal and Parekh could not be present to accept the commendation from prime mInister Manmohan Singh.
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.
