Television Viewership

Delhi, Karnataka lead India's 85% surge in connected TV users in 2025

The report finds India's CTV audience at 129.2 million, with Delhi-NCR, Karnataka, and Maharashtra leading penetration as OTT content drives wider adoption

Updated On: 26 Oct 2025 | 1:08 PM IST

Television budgets fade, streaming holds firm, films steal spotlight

Asia's content spend to drop 2% to $15.8 billion in 2025 as streaming overtakes pay-TV: Media Partners Asia report

Updated On: 12 Sep 2025 | 10:55 AM IST

Markets will have a strong run after June 4, says PM Narendra Modi

PM Narendra Modi assertion follows assurances by 3 senior ministers

Updated On: 19 May 2024 | 11:02 PM IST

IPL 2024: Disney Star records highest-ever watch time during season opener

The CSK vs RCB match in Chennai also witnessed the highest-ever peak TV concurrency for an IPL opening day, with 6.1 crore viewers watching the broadcast simultaneously on Disney Star

Updated On: 29 Mar 2024 | 6:13 PM IST

Robust revenue growth estimated for Reliance Industries-Disney combine

Media Partners Asia report says profits from television broadcast will help offset the losses in sports and digital

Updated On: 01 Mar 2024 | 11:07 PM IST

World Television Day 2023: History, importance, theme, quotes and facts

World TV Day is celebrated every year on November 21 to talk about the significance and meaning of TV in our lives. It was announced by the Unified Nations General Assembly in 1996

Updated On: 21 Nov 2023 | 12:57 PM IST

47 million tune in to watch first 58 Fifa World Cup matches on TV

Viewership grew nearly 11 per cent over first 48 matches and almost 51 per cent over first 19 matches

Updated On: 16 Dec 2022 | 12:06 AM IST

Larger sample size needed for BARC to measure viewership, says Zee Media

Comments come as the broadcaster becomes the second to exit the body in seven months

Updated On: 02 Oct 2022 | 5:15 PM IST

Zee is in talks with CCI to get approval for merger with Sony Entertainment

As per the BARC data for the ongoing financial year (2023), the merged entity has 36 per cent TV viewership market share in the Hindi GEC segment, and 33 per cent in the Hindi movies channels.

Updated On: 01 Sep 2022 | 10:38 PM IST

IPL 2022 TV viewership slips further in second week of tournament

Fatigue, marquee teams not performing well among reasons for slide; bids for forthcoming media rights auction may take hit, ad rates steady for now, say experts

Updated On: 18 Apr 2022 | 12:33 AM IST

The future of television

A closer look at the numbers for 2016, 2018 and 2020, shows that just over half of TV viewers and homes have always been in rural India

Updated On: 21 Apr 2021 | 10:45 PM IST

TV ownership sees 7% rise in 2020 amid Covid-19 pandemic, says BARC

Experts said the pandemic and need for entertainment led to the rise in TV ownership

Updated On: 16 Apr 2021 | 12:49 AM IST

Men or women, who owns TV remote? A study busts popular viewership myths

An unreleased study busts popular myths around television viewership

Updated On: 18 Mar 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

Modi ruled TV in 2020, emerges as most watched personality: BARC report

PM Modi's public addresses regarding the ongoing Covid pandemic, his speeches focussing on a range of issues -- from being at the forefront of exporting vaccines to the ongoing farmer protests

Updated On: 03 Mar 2021 | 11:08 AM IST

TRP case: Ex-BARC CEO directly involved, rigged entire system, HC told

Ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta rigged the "entire" TRP system for news channels and also discussed issues of national security with "a certain owner cum news anchor" on Whatsapp, Police told the HC

Updated On: 15 Feb 2021 | 10:20 PM IST

Eyes and ears of marketing

Media experts point out various flaws in the BARC television rating system. But what they don't point out is that BARC ratings (or the earlier TAM ratings) are not used by advertisers in isolation

Updated On: 09 Feb 2021 | 9:41 PM IST

TRP scam: HC asks ARG Media to complete its pleadings by Feb 9

ARG Outlier Media is the company that runs all Republic TV channels

Updated On: 29 Jan 2021 | 3:12 PM IST

TRP scam case: Times group plans to take legal action against BARC

Former CEO of BARC, Partho Dasgupta is already in jail along with several top executives of Republic TV - which, as per Mumbai police, benefitted due to the TRP manipulation by BARC top officials

Updated On: 22 Jan 2021 | 9:46 PM IST

The push for pay - now or never

It is time to break the hegemony of advertising over news media; it is time to push for subscription revenues

Updated On: 21 Jan 2021 | 12:42 AM IST

The nation needs to know

Arnab Goswami's purported claims must be investigated

Updated On: 17 Jan 2021 | 10:45 PM IST