News Broadcasting
Mipcom 2006 announces mobile TV award winners
MUMBAI: Mipcom 2006 has announced the winners of the Mobile TV Screening & Awards 2006. The international trophies were awarded yesterday evening at the 22 edition of Mipcom, Cannes.
The winning titles were chosen by an international grand jury from a total of 23 nominated projects.
Sponsored by Orange, Ericsson and the Korean Broadcasting Commission, the Mobile Screenings & Awards 2006 brought in a record number of 290 entries from 34 countries, a 30 per cent increase in submissions from 2005.
The grand jury included the following members : Kurt Sillén, head of grand jury and VP, Ericsson Mobility World, Ericsson AB (Sweden), Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Film-maker (France), Nicoletta Iacobacci, Head of Interactive TV, EBU / UER TV Department (Switzerland), Russell Kagan, Managing Director, International Program Consultants Inc. (USA) and Mun Yeon Kim, CEO of Joongang Broadcasting Co. (Korea).
In addition to the grand jury awards, a grand prize for best innovation in mobile content was awarded by Orange.
Reed Midem’s Television Division, director Paul Johnson comments, “Mobile TV represents a growing opportunity for the audiovisual content industry. By creating and hosting the Mobile TV Awards at Mipcom we aim to play an active role in promoting the development of made-for-mobile content and facilitating commercial transactions on a global level for both TV and film.”
The 6 winners of the Mipcom Mobile TV Awards ’06 are:
Best Original Made-for-Mobile Film or Video Content Jokes, Green Paddy Animation Studio (Taiwan)
Best repurposed Content From Existing Film or TV Property On This Day in History (OTDIH), ITN ON (UK)
Best Made-for-Mobile TV Channel
NHK Mobile-G Channel, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Japan)
Best Format for Interactive Mobile TV
Forget the Rules, Global Dilemma Pty Ltd. (Australia)
Best Mobile Format for User-Generated Content
3 Mobile’s See Me TV service, 3 Mobile (UK)
Orange Grand Prize For Innovation
Soccer Addicts, Buongiorno (Italy)
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.
