News Broadcasting
News Corp invests further in its UK newspapers
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate, News Corporation has announced a significant investment in its UK publishing subsidiary News International Limited.
The company will spend in the course of the next four to five years over ?600 million on new printing plants.
News International publishes The Sun, the News of the World, The Times, The Sunday Times and the TSL Education supplements, say media reports.
The investment will enable the company to acquire state-of-the-art full-colour printing presses and build new production plants in Enfield, north of London, Glasgow, and Knowsley, close to Liverpool.
New Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said, “News International is Britains leading national newspaper publisher, producing some of the greatest newspapers in the world. At News Corporation, we have always been a long-term investor at the forefront of technological innovation. This exciting new project demonstrates again our absolute commitment to the future of print.”
News International executive chairman Les Hinton said, “This will ensure News International maintains its leading position in the national newspaper industry. The new presses will provide colour on every page bringing advantages to both advertisers and editorial. This is a long-range project taking more than four years to complete.
“Over this period inevitably there will be job changes and losses as the new automated technology comes on line. There will be no impact on jobs for at least two years and, wherever possible, reductions will be achieved through voluntary redundancy,” he added.
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.
