News Broadcasting
ABP NEWS NIELSEN- KAUN BANEGA PRADHANMANTRI- BJP to bag 40 seats in UP
MUMBAI: BJP to bag 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh; AAP predicted to get only one seat: ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll
BJP predicted to emerge as the largest party with 21 seats in Bihar; JDU to face the heat of break-up from BJP, likely to get 9 seats: ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll
BJP likely to have a major gain of 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh, predicts the opinion poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen. As compared the poll conducted in Jauary, 2014, BJP shows a gain of another five with 40 seats and a vote share of 33 per cent. Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP likely to get only one seat in the house of 80-seat assembly. Congress predicted to get around 11 seats as compared to 21 seats in 2009 Lok Sabha polls. As per the poll, ruling Samajwadi Party likely to get around 14 and Mayawati’s BSP to get a close number of 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
 |
As per the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, BJP likely to get 2 seats of all four seats in Bundelkhand. Congress likely to be wiped off and SP and BSP to get one seat each.
 |
According to the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, BJP likely to lead in the 12-seat zone of Central Uttar Pradesh with 5 seats. Congress to get around 3 and BSP, SP to bag 2 seats each.
 |
As per the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, BJP predicted to lead with 17 seats in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Congress to get 4 seats, BSP 9 seats and SP 5 seats in the 36-seat zone of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Maywati’s BSP has gained 2 seats as compared to 7 seats in the opinion poll conducted in January, 2014.
 |
According to the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, BJP to lead in all 5 zones, predicted to get around 16 seats in Western Uttar Pradesh. BJP has gained 5 seats here, as compared to 11 seats in the opinion poll conducted in January, 2014. AAP to get its only seat from Western Uttar Pradesh. Ruling Samajwadi Party likely to get 6 seats.
 |
As per the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, BJP predicted to emerge as the largest party with 21 seats in Bihar; JDU to face the heat of break-up from BJP, likely to get 9 seats.
 |
BJP likely to emerge as the largest party in Bihar with 21 seats and a vote share of 32 per cent, predicts the opinion poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen. Ruling JDU to face the heat after parting from ally BJP, to get 9 seats as compared to 20 seats in 2009 Lok Sabha polls. RJD likely to get around 5 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
 |
According to the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, in a hypothetical scenario, Congress predicted to get 14 seats and a vote share of 32 per cent in alliance with RJD and LJP.
The opinion poll was conducted by ABP News-Nielsen in 20 parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh on 4th February, 2014 to 15th February, 2014 with 4537 respondents. In Bihar, the poll was conducted in 10 constituencies with 2272 respondents.
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.
