News Broadcasting
Sahara Samay Rastriya launches crime and health show
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Rastriya has two new offerings in the health and crime genre. One, being Body Clock that will focus on various ailments and diseases with their possible and alternate solutions. The theme is essentially a program providing solutions to the various body related problems. It also deals with specific gender related health problems separately.
The second being Hello Control Room, which is targeted at those people who are victimised and are afraid of going to the police station to file a complaint to get justice.
Body Clock is slotted as a half hour program will air every Saturday, highlighting a specific ailment/ disease. It will then move onto solutions along with the exercises and Yogic asana’s. The show targets all age groups from children, youth to elderly audiences.
Hello control Room will also highlight the good work done by select police officers based on the feed back from the callers, and action taken by these officers in response to appeals made by the programme. The programme also entails a special segment titled Super Cop, which will honour such officers and people who stand up against injustice and crime to protect fellow citizens.
Sahara Samay Rashtriya HOD Arup Ghosh has set up a control room at the news channel’s office with 12 lines that will work round the clock taking calls from such citizens who are afraid to approach authorities for justice. A team of dedicated journalists from Sahara Samay will work towards getting these complaints redressed and facilitate in getting justice. Launched on 20 September, callers can call in from anywhere in India.
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.








