News Broadcasting
Public Media Works appoints Stephen Brown as chairman & CEO
MUMBAI: Public Media Works, Inc. (PMWI) has announced management reorganization with the appointment of a new chairman and chief executive officer of the company.
The company will enter the new year with the appointment of Stephen Brown as its new chairman and CEO.
Brown will also serve as interim chief financial officer of the company until such time a permanent chief financial officer is appointed. He brings a wealth of experience in both the entertainment field and with the public markets.
Brown previously served as president/CEO of Milagro Entertainment, Inc., a company that he founded which acquired and developed numerous projects, including life story rights of certain entertainers. The projects include published book rights and completed quality scripts for adaptation to film and/or television. He has also developed numerous television projects in different stages ranging from drama to comedy to reality TV.
PMWI is engaged in the development, production, marketing and distribution of quality entertainment projects in the areas of film, television, music, theater and sports.
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.
