News Broadcasting
Star Ananda felicitates ‘Shera Bangalis of 2007’
MUMBAI: Media Content and Communications Services’s (MCCS) Star Ananda has felicitated ten personalities from diverse fields at the ‘Star Ananda Shera Bangalis of 2007’. The award recognises and honours achievements by individuals that has made Bengal proud.
Asim Ghosh and Pranab Mukhjerjee with the Star Ananda Shera Bangali Award Star Ananda feliciated minister for defence Pranab Mukherjee, Hutchison Essar MD Asim Ghosh, Hindalco MD Debu Bhattacharya, economist and Nobel Peace prize 2006 winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus, academician and elephant expert Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury, painter Arpita Singh, former captain of Indian cricket team, Sourav Ganguly, film director Anurag Basu and actor Mithun Chakraborty.
MCCS VP Barun Das said, “We at Star Ananda have dedicated ourselves to reflecting and catalysing the growth and resurgence of Bengal and thus continually contribute in this process. ‘Shera Bangali’ is an effort in that direction to recognize those successful Bengalis who not only have excelled in their respective field, but have also helped in putting Bengalis in the international limelight. ”
The ‘Shera Bangali’ award ceremony was presented by Camellia Group in association with Priya Biscuits, Sriniketan, Asian Sky Shop and Surf Excel. The media partners for the event are Ananda Bazar Patrika, Friends 91.9 FM and Selvel. The event and trophy partners are Millenium EMS and Senco Gold respectively.
The awared ceremony was followed by performance by Shaan, Koena Mitra, Tanushree Dutta, Jeet, Koyel Mullik, June Maliah and Nachiketa.
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.
