News Broadcasting
NDTV gets board nod to demerge news business
MUMBAI: It’s restructuring time at the NDTV group. On 1 October, the board of New Delhi Television approved the draft scheme of the demerger of its news business into a new company.
According to the scheme the group will be carved into two groups of companies, one involved in “the news and other businesses” and the other in ‘Entertainment and specified allied businesses.’
The scheme would become effective 1 April 2009.
According to the company’s notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the demerger is being resorted to because the news business and entertainment business function under different regulatory environments. The split up will also help “unlock shareholder value as well as provide increased choice and flexibility to shareholders.”
After the demerger, NDTV Limited will continue to remain listed on the BSE and the National Stock Exchange and will engage in non-news businesses. Subject to necessary approvals, the new company would also get listed under Clause claiming to be 8.3.5.1 of the SEBI (Disclosure & Investor Protection) Guidelines, 2000. This new company would engage in news and allied businesses.
NDTV Ltd NDTV Studios (as the news business is now called inside the group)
NDTV Convergence NDTV 24×7
NDTV Imagine NDTV India
NGEn NDTV Profit
NDTV Lifestyle NDTV Media
NDTV lumiere Metronation Delhi
NDTV Labs Metronation Chennai
NDTV emerging markets
After the demerger, for every one share currently held in NDTV Ltd, a shareholder will receive one share in the new company: for every Rs 4 face value share currently held in NDTV Ltd, a shareholder will receive a share of equal face value in the company that will acquire the news businesses of NDTV Limited while retaining his earlier NDTV share.
The company also said that the demerger scheme would make suitable arrangements for optimum ownership and use of the very valuable brand of NDTV, apart from ownership and use of common assets.
Additionally, certain undertakings and guarantees provided by NDTV Limited will be undertaken by both the companies after the de-merger.
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.
