News Broadcasting
Milind Khandekar- Managing Editor,ABP News has decided to move on from organization after a 14 year long successful stint
MUMBAI: Commenting on this development, Mr Avinash Pandey, COO, ABP News Network says – ‘ Mr Khandekar has been instrumental in shaping and strengthening the editorial structure at ANN during this illustrious association. His service has been indeed much valuable to the organization. It has been an honor working with a wonderful colleague like him all these past years. We wish him boundless success in all his future endeavors.’
Mr Milind Khandekar says-‘14 years is a long time and I remember this incredible journey very fondly.My association with ANN started with Hindi Channel and gradually transcended into digital and regional(Bengali,Marathi and Gujarati) channels of ANN as well.Overall,it has been a fulfilling and a remarkable experience’
With Mr Khandekar moving on, Mr.Rajnish Ahuja who’s currently the Associate Managing Editor,ABP News will be taking charge of ABP News editorial on an interim basis.
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.
