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This festive season, play the Champion Festival Contest & own a Champion phone
MUMBAI: MUMBAI: Champion Computers Pvt. Ltd., a leading IT and Telecom manufacturer is launching a special contest for its consumers this Festive season to add to the soaring festive spirits. Since it’s the time of celebrations and happiness, Champion brings to you the ‘My slogan’ contest where the participants have the chance to get stylish and chic Champion products at unbelievable discounts!
To add to these joyous moments, Champion has launched a heartwarming Slogan contest wherein all the participants have to do is – Visit the Champion Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheChampionComputers and complete the following sentence in not more than 15 words – “I want a new smart phone this festive season because……..”. The participant who garners the maximum likes on their slogan till the last date of the contest will win an amazing Champion phone and the first runner-up with second highest likes will get a 15% discount on any Champion product that they plan to buy. The contest begins on ¬¬¬1st November 2013 and runs till 30th November 2013
Speaking on the Champion Festival contest, Mr. Kapil Wadhwa said “Festival are a time of sharing love and warmth and we at Champion Computers also wanted to reach out to our discerning consumers and connect with them through this contest. The contest is our bit to join our consumers in their Festive season celebrations and we are more than happy to offer great deals on the wide array of Champion products and put a smile on their faces.”
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.
