News Broadcasting
Reuters looks to protect IPR through latest tie up
MUMBAI: The issue of copyright infringement may be given short shrift in India but in the US news sites are doing their best to ensure that their content is not being used without permission.
Fast Search & Transfer which develops enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies has announced that news service provider Reuters will deploy its software solution.
A company release informs that the alliance will enable Reuters to protect its intellectual assets by improving brand and content protection. In identifying and logging Reuters content on the Internet, the Fast search derivative application (SDA) for content monitoring will generate reports for Reuters that will help the company to monitor the internet for copyright infringements of content.
Reuters’ global head of content quality Paul Hansford added, “As the world’s largest international multimedia news agency and content provider, it is important to know as much as we can about how Reuters’ copyrighted news content is being used by our subscribers, as well as the general public. Fast’s ability to filter and retrieve news results from thousands of data sources, in multiple languages, with the highest relevancy for our subscribers has impressed us. We are looking forward to seeing how the implementation of this technology will help us track copyright infringements and protect our corporate identity.”
Reuters’ deployment of the Fast content monitoring application capitalises upon its current use of FAST ESP. This is Fast’s powerful, real-time enterprise search platform. The Reuters News Distribution Service (NDS) uses Fast ESP to provide subscribers with customised information that is highly relevant to the news articles they are developing. In addition Fast ESP enables Reuters NDS subscribers to save specific company and news triggers, so that they can be alerted in real-time as new information on these topics are made public.
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.
