News Broadcasting
Times Now to air special show on election results with eminent panelists
MUMBAI: Times Now is all set to redefine election coverage with Mandate 2017. With accurate predictions in exit polls over the last few years, the channel claimed to be known as India’s Election News Headquarters, plans to be at the forefront of election news coverage.
Result Day Live, for the forthcoming elections results will be aired on 11 March from 6 am onwards. The show will feature a new-age look at election result analysis along with several unique properties that help viewers understand what is the impact of their opinions on election day.
Times Now chief editor Rahul Shivshankar and managing editor (politics) Navika Kumar will host this special show. The duo will be joined by a panel of eminent experts and senior journalists like Neerja Chowdhury, R Rajagopalan, Saba Naqvi, Kumar Ketkar, Alok Mehta, editor Nayi Duniya Shahid Siddiqui, founder edit Platter.com Sanjeev Srivastava, Public Affairs analyst Rajeev Desai, and Times of India consulting editor Nalin Mehta.
Moving away from traditional analysis like swing and vote patterns, the channel will use big data analytics and mathematical models to bring the viewer holistic news watching experience this along with a stellar panel of former journalists and political analysts.
The counting for these votes and results of five Indian states including Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will be declared on 11 March 2017.
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.
