News Broadcasting
Yahoo to offer video news feeds from CNN, ABC News
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that seeks to take the concept of video on the web a step forward. Yahoo has announced that it will start offering news feeds from Disney’s ABC News and Time Warner’s CNN as part of the features on its Yahoo! News site from next month.
CNN.com will offer video clips daily and ABC News will offer a package of on demand video content. All of the video will be available for free to Yahoo users, and will be ad supported. ABC News and CNN.com content will be integrated throughout Yahoo News including on its front page, within story pages, and in other special sections of the site. It will also be made available to Yahoo!’s broadband service subscribers through its co-branded relationships with SBC Communications, Rogers Cable, BT and Verizon Communications.
Yahoo VP content operations Scott Moore says, “Video content is becoming an increasingly important component of the online news experience for Yahoo News users. These relationships with CNN, ABC are an important step in expanding the video content on our site”.
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.
