News Broadcasting
Reuters looks to launch TV channels in India, China
NEW DELHI: British news major Reuters is planning to launch television channels in India and China, according to the media company’s CEO Tom Glocer, who said the two countries are ideal for undertaking a joint-venture channel with a local media group, probably under the Reuters banner.
A London datelined story filed by Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) quotes Golcer as saying Reuters, which has had a presence in both countries for decades, believes that expansion was necessary in India and China.
Glocer said he wants to expand the news operation by making use of new-media outlets. This is already moving ahead in Britain, where Reuters is linking up with Vodafone to provide a Reuters news service on 3G phones, the IANS report stated.
There was too much competition in Britain and the US to launch a TV news channel in either country but the Chinese and Indian markets would be ideal, IANS quoted Golcer as saying.
The group is looking at increasing its number of journalists in both China and India in the near future. In China, Reuters could sign a joint venture with media company Xinhua, with which it has a strong relationship.
Entry into the Chinese market would be through a joint venture as foreign businesses are allowed to own only 25 per cent of a company in the communist state, the report said.
Reuters has recently started an interactive Internet video news channel for the US.
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.
