News Broadcasting
TV Today Network appoints Rajeev Gupta as an independent director
MUMBAI: TV Today Network announced Rajeev Gupta as an independent director on the board of the company with effect from 5 March 2016 for a period of 5 years subject to shareholder approval.
With an experience of 33 years in manufacturing, investment banking and private equity, Gupta has worked as CEO for a scale challenged Indian magnetic components manufacture Cosmo Ferrites Limited for 5 years and he has worked as a product manager for a line of industrial abrasives in Grindwell Norton for 2 years
Gupta was also worked as M&A Head and Board member of DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd and set up his own M&A investment banking Firm Arpwood Capital Ltd in 2012. He was a global partner of the Carlyle group and India Head of Asia Buyout Fund.
The company informed the stock exchanges that the Gupta does not have any relationship with other directors of the Board of the Company.
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.
