News Broadcasting
Pressman Advertising reports 6 per cent q-o-q revenue growth for Q2-2014
BENGALURU: Pressman Advertising Limited (Pressman), probably the first advertising agency that was listed on the NSE and BSE last month reported a revenue growth of 5.9 per cent for Q2-2014 at Rs10.15 crore as compared to the Rs 9.58 crore for the immediate trailing quarter Q1-2014.
PAT for Q2-2014 was about 1.1 per cent lower at Rs 1.9975 crore than the Rs 2.0198 crore for Q1-2014. The company reported revenue of Rs 46.96 crore and a PAT of Rs 6.29 crore for FY-2013 and paid a dividend of 40 per cent.
In Q1-2014, the company had released Rs 1.461 crore that had been earlier written off and this amount helped in inflating the profit for that quarter. This year the company has added Rs 0.6 crore to exceptional items – write back of liability provided for earlier year no longer required.
Expenditure for Q2-2014 at Rs 8.89 crore was 3.2 per cent lower than the Rs 9.18 crore for Q1-2014. Cost or services for Q2-2014 at Rs 7.49 crore was 4 per cent lower than the Rs 7.8 crore for Q1-2014.
For the half year ended 30 September 2013, the company’s gross income (including exceptional items) stood at Rs 22.089 crore and PAT at Rs 4.02 crore. As on 31 March 2013, the company had Reserves and Surplus (excluding revaluation reserves) of Rs13.75 crore on a paid up capital of Rs 4.6966 crore.
Notes: (1) The name of the company has changed from Nucent Estates Limited to Pressman Advertising Limited with effect from 22 August 2013.
(2) Current quarter/half-year’s figures are not comparable for those of last year on account of effect of amalgamation
(3) Please read the attached financial results
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.
