News Broadcasting
Zee Media gets board approval to raise Rs 200 crore via rights issue
MUMBAI: Zee Media Corporation Limited (ZMCL) today announced the result of its board meeting, informing that the board of directors has approved raising Rs 200 crore via rights issue.
The company last week announced its plan to consider raising of funds and was looking at various routes, including the rights issue for the same.
In a statement to BSE, the company said, “Zee Media Corporation Ltd has informed BSE that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on October 20, 2014, inter alia, has approved, in-principle, raising of funds for an amount of not exceeding Rs 200 Crores through issue of equity shares of the Company to its eligible shareholders on a rights basis in accordance with the Companies Act, 2013, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009 and other applicable laws (the “Rights Issue”).”
An issue of rights to a company’s existing shareholders entitles them to buy additional shares directly from the company, in proportion to their existing holdings within a fixed time period. In a rights offering, the subscription price at which each share may be purchased in generally at a discount to the current market price. Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market.
The company today also announced its Q2-2015 results. The media corporation posted a Rs 12.8 crore loss in the current quarter as compared to Rs 14.57 crore loss in Q1-2015 and a profit of Rs 4.27 crore in the corresponding quarter last year (Q2-2014).
ZMCL, formerly known as Zee News Ltd, broadcasts 10 news channels including two national ones – Zee News and Zee Business.
Its regional news channels are Zee 24 Taas, 24 Ghanta, Zee Sangam, Zee Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh, Zee Purvaiya, Zee Marudhara, Zee Punjab Haryana Himachal and Zee Kalinga.
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.
