News Broadcasting
Sky to offer multi-platform coverage of The Uefa Champions League
MUMBAI: UK broadcaster Sky Sports will boost its coverage of the Uefa Champions League with content available across five different services. The event kicked off yesterday 12 September.
As well as live coverage across two Sky Sports channels, for the first time; Sky digital viewers can access new interactive options, Sky Sports HD will offer live high definition games, matches will be streamed at skysports.com, and mobile users can see post-match highlights.
The new ways of watching the new Uefa Champions League are:
· High Definition– Matches will be aired in high definition. Sky HD claims to offer even clearer, more vibrant pictures to viewers with an HD-ready TV and Sky HD box and subscription.
Interactive – Sky digital viewers can, for the first time, keep up to date with a new goal alerts service as well as choosing from 14 different matches this week. Viewers select their game, or switch between games, by pressing the red button on their remote handset to launch Sky Sports Active and using a simple on-screen menu.
Online– Starting with the first Group Stage games on matches will be streamed live through skysports.com. As an introductory offer, users can access any of the 14 games offered live by Sky Sports on a PPV basis for £3 (€4.50) per match.
Mobile – Sky Sports will offer in-game goal clips from all games to mobile phones. Users should check their mobile operator for details.
The latest update to the interactive service for UEFA Champions League – a service launched three seasons ago – is the ‘Goal Alert’ facility which brings updates on goals as they are scored. A new ‘Quad Split’ option is also available for the first time, allowing viewers to watch four matches on the same screen on Wednesday evenings.
Sky Sports Networked Media director Piers Croton, said, “Three years ago Sky Sports introduced multi-match choice options to British TV through Sky digital and our live interactive service. Now we’ve extended the proposition so that our customers can keep right up to date and follow the UEFA Champions League just about wherever they are. ”
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: 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.
