News Broadcasting
Producers’ outstandings to DD nearly Rs 1.7 billion
NEW DELHI: As on 31 March, 2002, the outstanding dues owed to national broadcaster Doordarshan from various producers and agencies stood at Rs 1692.8 million, according to documents which were laid on the tables of Parliament just before it was adjourned sine die earlier this week.
It is not clear how much of this outstanding has been recovered by Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of DD and All India Radio till date and which are the disputed cases. For example, Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno and Nimbus Communications have claimed that the outstanding against them are part of disputed amount and DD is yet to settle the matter. Ditto for Creative Eye.
The Prasar Bharati board, which met earlier this week, also took note of the outstandings but have not yet taken a final decision on the matter as to how the recoveries are to be made. Still, the details of the outstanding, as per documents available with indiantelevision.com, are as follows:
Aaliya Productions: Rs 6 million
Advance Network: Rs 21.3 million
Advision Multimedia: Rs 1.7 million
Anand Advertising: Rs 14 million
Asian Ad Age: Rs 2.7 million
B4U Multimedia: Rs 19.7 million
Balaji Telefilms: Rs 11.1 million
Bidhan Advertising: Rs 1.1 million
Cinema Vision: Rs 3.5 million
Clarion: Rs 600,000
Concept Advertsing: Rs 18.8 million
Copy Desk: Rs 4.5 million
Corrum Communications: Rs 1.8 million
Creative Channel: Rs 2.8 million
Creative Eye: Rs 120 million
Drishty India: Rs 29.4 million
Fame Communications: Rs 107.4 million
Film City: Rs 2.6 million
Film Craft: Rs 64.7 million
First Option Telefilms: Rs 4.1 million
Future Communication: Rs 1.1 million
G.N. Communications: Rs 2.5 million
Global Entertainers: Rs 9.3 million
Government of Delhi: Rs 600,000
Guruji Advertisers: Rs 8.5 million
HMT: Rs 300,000
HTA: Rs 2.5 million
Innovision Film & TV: Rs 2.5 million
Jaya Advertising: Rs 4.9 million
Joslin Communications: Rs 4.2 million
Kine Scope: Rs 7 million
KLI: Rs 7 million
Lehar Publicity Service: Rs 2.8 million
Magic Box: Rs 1.1 million
Magna Vision: Rs 10.8 million
Market Movers: Rs 31.1 million
Maya Entertainment: Rs 17 million
MBM: Rs 16.3 million
Media Asia: Rs 14.6 million
Moulis Advertising: Rs 200,000
Multichannel: Rs 110.2 million
Neerja Films: Rs 2.5 million
Network 7: Rs 2 million
NFDC: Rs 470 million
Nimbus Communications: Rs 61.2 million
Numero Uno: Rs 103 million
PNC: Rs 15.4 million
PAS International: Rs 5.7 million
Pinky Advertsing: Rs 9.1 million
Plus Channel: Rs 101.2 million
Prime Time Media: Rs 2 million
Radha Publicity: Rs 1.6 million
Sagar Enterprises: Rs 59 million
Samvaad: Rs 4.9 million
Shree Madhav: Rs 115.6 million
Stargazer: Rs 1.3 million
Tracer Advertising: Rs 3.3 million
Translink TV: Rs 2.4 million
Triton Communications: Rs 3.1 million
Universal: Rs 7.3 million
Uranus: Rs 4.6 million
Vigyapan: Rs 300,000
W.D. Consumer: Rs 800,000
World Media: Rs 13.2 million
Worldcom M/M: Rs 5.8 million
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.
