News Broadcasting
Roshan Abbas’ Encompass to produce three shows for Radio City
MUMBAI: After his move from Win 94.6 to Radio City, star RJ Roshan Abbas has been quite busy. Besides his regular RJ assignments for the radio channel, Abbas is now getting into producing shows as well.
Touted as a one-stop BTL (below the line) marketing solutions provider for the corporate and entertainment industry, Encompass is packaging and scripting programs on Radio City, hosted by company’s managing director Roshan Abbas himself. The debut venture boasts of three shows Filmcity Express, Junior Janab and Public Demand.
While the entire packaging for Filmcity Express is handled by Encompass, the company is scripting the shows Public Demand and Junior Janab, informs an official release.
Filmcity Express, which will be aired weekdays from 12 PM to 2 PM, is a two hours of no holds barred show anchored by Abbas. He will talk about everything from ‘filmi gyan’ to ‘Banarasi paan’.
While Junior Janab, scheduled to air from 12 PM to 1 PM every Saturday and Sunday is Abbas take on the Bill Cosby
Last show, Public Demand is a countdown show that will air every Sunday from 6 PM to 9 PM
With these assignments, the seven year old event management company- Encompass, is taking on radio into its sphere. The company will be producing fifteen hours of programming every week.
“Its so much fun playing in the theater of the mind. For radio is just that. After doing radio shows in Dubai, Canada, Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow earlier I am back with Radio city to reach my hometown Lucknow, the city that gave me my educational roots and started my career Delhi, the city that has now enveloped me with its tinsel town dreams, Mumbai, and the city which I love to go to, to see the melting pot of cosmopolitan India Bangalore”, says Abbas.
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.
