News Broadcasting
Zee Café to debut `The Orange Country’ on 30 December
MUMBAI: English general entertainment channel Zee Café will kick off the teen drama The Orange County (OC) on 30 December 2005 at 9:30 pm.
Zee Café business head Neil Chakravarti said, The content in OC is something that teenagers across the globe can relate to. The trials and tribulations and the ups and downs in their lives is like a page out of the book from any teenagers life across the globe and we strongly feel the show has appeal to teens even in India.”
We are looking forward to replicate the success story of the OC in India. It has become a powerful style force, influencing trends in music, fashion and youth culture abroad.
The OC is a drama series set in a rich American suburb. It is the story of the lives of the people who live in The Orange County. In America, when it was first aired it was an instant hit among the youth especially the teenagers to extent that millions of fan clubs, online communities, and discussion forums sprang up overnight.
Zee Cafe says that The OC brigade enjoys a cult following so much as to their real lives also being the hot favourite topic of discussion. Currently the third season of OC is on air internationally and the fans are just multiplying exponentially with each new season and each new episode.
The OC is an idyllic paradise, a wealthy harbor-front community where everything and everyone appears to be perfect. But beneath the surface is a world of shifting loyalties and identities; of kids living secret lives hidden from their parents and of parents living secret lives hidden from their children. Its also the story of Ryan. The story of a troubled teen from the wrong side of the tracks who is thrust into a world of which he could never be a part.
The show stars Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Ben McKenzie, Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Chris Carmack, Melinda Clarke, Rachel Bilson and Alan Dale.
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.
