News Broadcasting
Television producer David Kelley to be honoured at Vision Awards
MUMBAI: Many of Hollywood’s talents in film, television and music will descend in Beverly Hills on 24 June for the 33rd Annual Vision Awards.
Television producer David Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice) will be honoured. Also being honoured is director Rob Marshall who made Memoirs Of A Geisha and actor cum director George Clooney who was Oscar nominated for directing and writing Good Night and Good Luck.
This is a gala fundraising event, which has become an annual Hollywood tradition. It honours entertainment luminaries and companies who have exhibited exceptional gift of “sight, foresight and insight” in the creative arts, related technologies and medical research.
The campaign Hollywood Cures Blindness, Hope Is In Sight will be launched under the guidance of the 2006 Vision Awards chairman Arthur Hiller.
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.
