News Broadcasting
TV18 net up 67% at Rs 193 million
MUMBAI: News network TV18 has announced a net profit at Rs 193.2 million, for the quarter ended December 2006 as compared to Rs 399 million shown during the corresponding quarter in 2005, an increase of 51 per cent YoY.
TV18’s consolidated revenues were up 67 per cent (YoY) at Rs 647.46 million.
Among the highlights of the quarter for TV18 were: scheme of arrangement completed; group company GBN’s IPO gets huge investor response, while internet revenues continued to post robust growth, rising over 120 per cent from the corresponding quarter in 2005.
TV18 Consolidated Include revenues from CNBC-TV18, CNBC-Awaaz, moneycontrol.com, commoditiescontrol.com and various other Internet portals acquired by the company’s subsidiaries during the year. Current quarter’s revenues and costs are strictly not comparable with the same quarter in the previous year, since revenues and costs of Awaaz are being included from last quarter onwards, the company stated in a footnote.
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.
