News Broadcasting
CNBC-TV18 hosts investor camp in Kolkata
Business news channel CNBC-TV18 which hosted investor camp in the city saw the participation of more than 200 investors.
osted by Udayan Mukherjee, managing editor, CNBC-TV18, and Mitali Mukherjee news editor, markets, the investor camp saw eminent industry experts and leading practitioners in the field of investment coming together to share their insights on personal finance and investment trends.
India’s top financial experts like Nilesh Shah, MD & CEO, Envision Capital, Sudarshan Sukhani from s2analytics.com and Anu Jain, director – investment advisory, equity practice, IIFL Private Wealth were present at the camp.
“From last six years the market condition is not able to match the investor’s expectations. As everything comes in cycle hopefully FY14 will be the beginning of the market recovery,” said Udayan Mukherjee, CNBC TV18.
CNBC-TV18 is a pay channel targeted at English speaking consumers, investors, business people and other professionals and provides 24-hour coverage of corporate news, financial markets, industry news and expert perspectives on investing and management.
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.
