News Broadcasting
NDTV Q2 loss at Rs 240.8 million
MUMBAI: NDTV has posted a consolidated net loss of Rs 240.8 million for the second quarter ended 30 September 2007. On a standalone basis, the company’s net loss stands at Rs 39.5 million.
During the period the company has registered a total income of Rs 774.9 million on a consolidated basis, up 42 per cent as compared to Rs 545.2 million in the corresponding quarter last fiscal.
NDTV’s standalone revenue in the second quarter of 2007, has raised to Rs 679.1 million, a hike of 46 per cent year-on-year as compared to Rs 465.6 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
In the second quarter of this fiscal, NDTV launched four channels in India and abroad which includes NDTV Good Times, NDTV MetroNation (Delhi), NDTV Arabia and Astro Awani Malaysia in Malaysia.
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.
