News Broadcasting
Vir Sanghvi hosts ‘Faces & Names’ on SABe TV
MUMBAI: Meeting of Minds, the show hosted by Vir Sanghvi on SABe TV has been replaced with his new chat show Faces & Names, as of yesterday.
The new show is essentially a profile based chat show wherein the celebrity guest answers questions put forth by the audience and pre-recorded questions by the general public interspersed with questions from Vir Sanghvi. It also includes a special segment which showcases bytes of people associated (both personally and professionally) with the celebrity guest.
“We realised that the format of Meeting of Minds, which had a run of 40 episodes, had become quite similar to that of Court Martial hosted by Karan Thapar on Thursdays. Both the programmes featured a host and two guests which was obviously getting monotonous,” said SABe TV, executive producer, Charu Singh, when asked what prompted the change in programmes.
The new show airs Tuesdays at 10:30 pm.The first episode featuring Bollywood heroine Preity Zinta was aired yesterday.
“The channel has plans of introducing a couple of new current affairs programmes sometime after February next year,” Singh said. “However, these shows would be shown sometime during the day and not as part of the prime time current affairs band,” she said.
The other programmes on the channel’s 10:30 pm current affairs band include Line of Fire with Karan Thapar as host on Mondays, Kuch Khaas Baatein hosted by Swati Chaturvedi (which incidentally replaced Shekhar Suman’s Aap Aur Main) on Wednesdays, Court Martial with Karan Thapar again on Thursdays and Khulla Manch hosted by Manoj Raghuvanshi on Fridays.
News Broadcasting
Network18 channels lead YouTube news viewership in March 2026
CNN-News18, News18 India and CNBC channels top categories with record views
MUMBAI: When the world hit refresh on breaking news, Network18’s channels were already streaming ahead. As geopolitical tensions and war-driven headlines fuelled a surge in global news consumption, the network’s digital playbook delivered big clocking record Youtube viewership across English, Hindi and business news categories in March 2026.
At the forefront was CNN-News18, which emerged as the clear leader in the English news segment with 130 million live and video-on-demand views. The channel edged past competitors such as Times of India (126.5 million), Times Now (101.1 million), India Today (88.2 million) and NDTV (77.5 million), according to Databeings data for March.
In the Hindi news arena, News18 India delivered a commanding performance, racking up a staggering 3,297 million views on YouTube. The channel comfortably outpaced NDTV India, which recorded 3,119 million views, underlining its deep reach and consistent engagement with mass audiences, as per Playboard data.
The network’s dominance wasn’t confined to general news. In the Hindi business segment, CNBC Awaaz topped the charts with 92 million views, narrowly ahead of Zee Business (90 million) and well ahead of ET Now Swadesh (57 million). Meanwhile, its English counterpart CNBC-TV18 posted a strong 58 million views, reinforcing the network’s cross-category strength.
The spike in viewership reflects a broader shift in audience behaviour, with viewers increasingly turning to digital platforms particularly Youtube for real-time updates and in-depth coverage during high-intensity news cycles. For Network18, the numbers signal more than just scale; they underline the effectiveness of a multi-platform strategy that blends speed, credibility and continuous coverage.
In a month where the news never paused, it seems viewers chose to stay tuned where the stream never stopped.
