News Broadcasting
Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia appears ‘Face To face’ on BBC World
BBC World has announced that its show Face To Face hosted by Karan Thapar will feature classical musician Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia. The show airs on Wednesday at 10pm with a repeat on Sunday at 1pm
He talks about the choice he had to make between the diverse fields of music and wrestling. His initial passion for music was sparked by his mother singing lullabies to him. An official release informs that by the age of fifteen he started performing in All India Radio.
He says that in order to adopt music as a religion one needs to surrender oneself to a Guru. He has a special relationship with the bamboo flute and his mentor was Annapurna Devi. He also reveals that religion is very much part of his life through Lord Krishna. His future plans include starting an ashram which he will call Hari's Bridavan. He says that it will be like a Gurukul.
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.
