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Star News launches new show ‘Khabar Filmi Hai’
MUMBAI: Star News launched a new show on 16 August titled Khabar Filmi Hai, which will report exclusively on the latest in the world of films. The show will air at 8.30 pm from Monday to Friday with a repeat at 12.30 pm from Tuesday – Saturday.
Khabar Filmi Hai will replace the show Masand Ki Pasand, which was anchored by Rajeev Masand on Star News.
The half-hour daily program will take the viewer behind the scenes and report on news from the world of Bollywood, Tollywood, offering the latest on inside gossips, film premiers and parties, making of movies, on-location interviews, music launches and near real-time info on the glamorous world of films.
Headline news on filmi happenings, a main story segment, an event-based segment, celebrity interviews and a nostalgia segment peppered with perspectives from film shootings, film festivals and event locales, with a behind-the-scenes dekho into the surreal world of cinema, will keep the viewer updated.
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.
