News Broadcasting
Vh1 to telecast the 2014 Grammy Nominations Concert Live
MUMBAI: The countdown to music’s biggest night of the year has begun and Vh1 is all set to air it live as it happens. The live event will take place on 7 December and be shown at 8:30 am with a prime time repeat at 8:00 pm. There is a lot of buzz and excitement on Twitter as well and viewers can get involved in the action by tweeting with the hashtag #GrammysOnVh1.
Setting the stage for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, the one-hour special will officially kick off the Grammy season by revealing nominations in several categories. This year’s Grammy Nominations Concert will showcase performances by Drake, Robin Thicke, Keith Urban and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Rapper-actor LL Cool J will reprise his role as host for the fourth time this year.
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: 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.
