News Broadcasting
When talent took over: Presenting the winners of the Indian Telly Technical Awards
The 15th edition of Adobe presents IndianTelevision.com’s Indian Telly Technical Trade and Programming Awards was held on 28 October at Hotel Sahara Star. The awards recognize the talent in various technical categories like production, editing, writing, direction, distribution, and others.
The event saw an array of popular television celebrities like Divyanka Tripathi, Vivek Dahiya, Ravi Dubey, Deepika Singh, Sneha Wagh, Donal Bisht, Hunar Hali, Vikas Gupta, Anjali Anand, Ankit Bathla, Karan V Grover, Taher Shabbir, Eijaz Khan, Sushant Singh, Mahesh Thakur and many others who came out to support the heroes who work relentlessly behind the scenes.
The celebrities were all praises for the initiative and spoke about the importance of honouring technical crew.
The hosts of the night, Nakuul Mehta and Mohena Kumar Singh, were charming and enthralled the audience by their witty and thought provoking remarks.
Here’s presenting the complete list of the winners!
Special-Visual Effects for Television: Indranil Roy, Bharat Mistry, and Nishikant Mohapatra for 21 Sarfarosh Saragarhi 1897
Special Visual Effects for Television: One Life Studios for Porus
Art Direction (Fiction): Sandesh Gondhalekar for 21 Sarfarosh Saragarhi 1897
Art Direction (Fiction): Sanjay Bairagi for Ishqbaaaz
Art Direction (Non-Fiction): Omung Kumar for Bigg Boss Season 11
DOP (Fiction): Abhishek Basu for 21 Sarfarosh Saragarhi 1897
DOP (Non-Fiction): Kumar Subramaniyan for Special Operations India – Pathankot
Costumes for a TV Programme: Ketki Dalal for Porus
Make Up Artist: Preeti Sheel Singh for Qayamat Ki Raat
Stylist: Shweta Korde for Karmphaldata Shani
TV Show Packaging (Non-Fiction): Rangrez Media Pvt Ltd for Raja Rasoi Aur Andaz Anokha
TV Channel Packaging (Including Channel Ids and Generic Promos): Sanjay Ramachandran for Blockbuster
Editor (Fiction): Vishal Sharma for Kumkum Bhagya
Editor (Non-Fiction): Mahesh Ranjan and Dweerad Mahapatra for Special Operations India – Pathankot
Background Music (Fiction): Kartik Shah for 21 Sarfarosh Saragarhi 1897
Director (Soap and Drama): Siddharth Kumar Tewary for Porus
Director (Sitcom): Kedar Shinde for Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal
Director (Thriller): Rajesh Ranshinge for Kaun Hai
Director (Non-Fiction): Trevellyn Fynn for Fear Factor KKK – Pain In Spain
Director (Non- Fiction): Prabhu asgaonkar and Maneka Asgaonkar for Special Operations India – Pathankot
Screenplay Writer (Drama Series & Soap): Medha Jadav & Siddharth Kumar Tewary for Porus
Dialogue Writer (Drama Series and Soap): Vinod Sharma for Karmphaldata Shani
Screenplay Writer (Sitcom Comedy): Hemant Kewani for Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal
Screenplay Writer (Sitcom Comedy) for Sanjay Kohli, Shashank Bali, and Manoj Santoshi for Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai!
Dialogue Writer (Sitcom Comedy): Virat Basoya for Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal
Story Writer: Shashi Mittal, Vaishali Naik, and Nageen Mirza for Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai
Scriptwriter (Non-Fiction): Iqbal Malhotra for Netaji Bose – The Lost Treasure
Sound for Fiction Show: Raghu Hegde for Porus
Sound for Non-Fiction Show: Ashhar Farooqui for The Last Drop
Title Song: Rajiv Chilaka for Kalari Kids
Singer: Shaan for Haasil
Lifestyle and Fashion: Small Budget Big Makeover Season 2
Talk Show: The Kapil Sharma Show
Cookery Show: Raja Rasoi Aur Andaaz Anokha
Travel Show: Great Escape with Kunal and Cyrus
Spiritual Show: Inside Tirumala Tirupati
TV Production House: Swastik Productions
Animation Studio Of The Year: Green Gold Animations
Creative Leadership and Excellence in Original Content: Arun Thapar
Best Sales Team: Zee TV
Best Marketing Team: Colors
Best Cable Operator: S N Sharma
Best DTH Operator: Dish TV; Videocon D2H
Digital Team: Hotstar
Innovative Brand Integration: Drop Out
Best CSR Initiatives: Ride The Van
Best Communication Team: Viacom 18
Best Sports Show: Umeed India
Editor's Choice Best Director Sitcom: Shashank Bali for Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai
Editor's Choice Best Dialogue Writer – Sitcom: Raghuveer Shekhawat and Manoj Santoshi for Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai
All in all, there was not a single dull moment throughout the event, as Nakuul had the audience in splits with his sense of humour! Kudos to everyone who was a part of this unique initiative.
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.
