News Broadcasting
Zee hopes to counter Sony’s ‘K3H’ with a Love Marriage
MUMBAI:Marriages are the in thing on television, it would seem.
Zee Television has joined the bandwagon with a new series Love Marriage directed by Manisha Sharma that will air Mondays to Thursday at 8 pm. The show, that starts today, is produced by Mohanjit Mozez Singh and deals with four girls who come to Mumbai with dreams in their eyes and are looking for independence and excitement.
While encountering the highs and lows of life in the big city, they are also try to find their perfect match in life. The girls’ contrasting personalities promise drama; for instance, one girl gets her drive from the need to excel and be a perfectionist while another has run away from home after being forced into marriage with a man twice her age.
Interestingly, the girls are paying guests with a landlady called “Mrs Dixit”, played by Kyunkii… fame Apara Mehta.
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.
