News Broadcasting
TV Today Q2 net up at Rs 33 million
MUMBAI: The Aroon Purie promoted –TV Today Network records net profit of Rs 33 million for the quarter ended 30 September as against Rs 23.4 million for the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.
The company reported its net sales at Rs 381 million for this second quarter from Rs 314 million as compared to the corresponding quarter.
The company’s expenditure for the quarter closed at RS 320 million. It has largely incurred employee cost at Rs 105.90 million and transmission and production cost RS 43.60 million. On advertisement, marketing and distribution front, the company has recorded expense of Rs 71.70 million.
The company has informed that of the total Rs 950 million raised through initial public offering (IPO), Rs 685.50 million has already been utilised as of 30 September, 2006.
The company is a part of the India Today Group, which manages media company across television, radio (yet to launch its station under the second phase of private FM), print, publishing and music distribution.
The scrips opened at Rs 74.55 and closed the trading day at Rs 76.
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.
