News Broadcasting
Sabe TV and ETC to divulge Q 3 results next week
The Shri Adhikari Brothers board is meeting on Monday to discuss the third quarter results of the current fiscal.
Another media company that is yet to announce its Q3 results, ETC Networks, will also convene a board meeting on 31 January before going public with its figures. ETC Networks that runs two channels, etc and etc Punjabi, claims to be available to 25 million cable and satellite households. The company claims that besides a strong presence in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the Punjabi channel has also penetrated several other cities in the country.
ETC’s profits in the second quarter of 2001 had slipped to Rs 3.8 million from Rs 13.3 million in the same period last year. Its half yearly profits stood at Rs 14.8 million.
Shri Adhikari Brothers has not fared much better in the last quarter either. It posted profits of Rs 7.4 million as against profits of Rs 50.8 million in the same period in 2000. Its half yearly profits as on 30 September 2001 stood at Rs 38.4 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.
