Category: Viewership

Times Now replaces DD India at second spot in English news genre

BENGALURU: After the dingdong struggle between the Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV and pubcaster Doordarshan’s (DD) English news channel DD India for first rank, is there another skirmish in the offing in the English news genre for second place? Once supremo of the English news genre – Times Now and DD India are now vying for second rank or so it seems. Since week 13 of 2019 when Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) recommenced publishing viewership data in the public domain, Times Now was consistently ranked third until week 21 of 2019 when it climbed up to second rank, only to drop to third place a week later. Times Now once again climbed up a place to second rank in week 23, retain the same rank in week 24, dropped to third rank in week 25 and then clambered up again to second rank in week 26 of 2019 (Saturday, 22 June 2019 to Friday, 28 June 2019, week under review).

In the tussle between Republic TV and DD India, the latter lost the struggle post week 20 at rank 2, to plunge to rank 4 in week 22 and then gradually clambered up to rank 2(https://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/viewership/barc-week-25-dd-india-back-in-second-spot-190629)
in the previous week, only to come down to rank 3 during the week under review.

Viewership dips again

After a small increase in the previous week, the combined weekly impressions of BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English news channels fell slightly in week 26 of 2019. Ratings of a number of channels have been affected(https://indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/viewership/barc-week-23-english-news-ratings-plunge-190614)by BARC having reverted to an earlier method for treating landing pages since week 23 of 2019 and also because the timings of the ICC World Cup cricket tourney that is on currently in England and Wales overlap primetime of most genres. In a cricket crazy country like India, well, cricket viewership wins.

Please refer to chart below.

Top 5 English news channels

Republic TV retained its first rank in BARC’s weekly list for top 5 English news channels (All India (U+R): NCCS AB: Males 22+ Individuals) in week 26 of 2019 with 0.579 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.572 million weekly impressions in week 25. As mentioned above, Times Now climbed up to second place during the week under review with 0.428 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 0.402 million weekly impressions in week 24.

At third rank was DD India in week 26 of 2019 with 0.407 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.441 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Climbing up a place to fourth rank in week 26 of 2019 was CNN News18 with 0.284 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 0.261 million weekly impressions in week 25. Dropping a place to fifth rank was India Today Television with 0.220 million weekly impressions in week 26 0f 2019 as compared to fourth rank and 0.264 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

July 4, 2019
Crucial BARC India board meeting today under cloud of landing page issue

MUMBAI: The BARC India board is set to meet today in what can be considered as one of its more significant gatherings. The latest board meeting will be held in the backdrop of a series of controversial developments that have been triggered by TDSAT's order setting aside TRAI's directive on landing pages.

The TV audience measurement body's approach post the TDSAT order has raised concerns from certain quarters of the industry. Indiatelevision.com has previously written about different perspectives from within the industry from a clarity and transparency standpoint.

This is the first time the BARC India board will meet since it gave a nod to form a two-member committee to independently review its data validation and outlier policy that has drawn sharp opinions and observations from across the industry.

The meeting comes a day after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) hosted an open house discussion on review of television audience measurement and ratings in Mumbai on Wednesday where senior officials hoped the landing page issue would be addressed by the industry.

Following TDSAT’s ruling, BARC had notified that it would include the ratings of channels placed on landing page in its weekly ratings data and while releasing the data of week 22, 2019 BARC correctly considered the channel available on landing pages.

On 13 June BARC announced that it is reverting to its earlier method of filtering out outliers or abnormal reach from the landing page which BARC decided to do so, only after receiving some representations from industry players.

With BARC again starting to exclude the outliers, several broadcasters have alleged that the data could be biased as the process of validating outliers for channels is manual.

With several industry stakeholders keen to track the latest updates, this BARC board meeting is far from a routine affair.

July 4, 2019
IIM-C presents a report on BARC India’s TV panel size

MUMBAI: India’s sole TV viewership measurement company and the world’s largest TV audience measurement service, BARC India, joined hands with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the country’s premier management education institute, to curate a report on BARC India’s TV panel sample sizes. The report presented to BARC India summarizes the review, analysis, and recommendations for the sample design of BARC India’s panel. On sample sizes in general, the report states that an ideal sample size depends on many factors and, therefore, ‘there is no unique nor ideal solution’. Instead, sample size should be based on aspects such as the sample design, cost of sampling, overall budget, population characteristics and other internal considerations BARC India needs to account for.

About sample allocation, the team was pleased with the observed mechanisms in place by BARC India toward ensuring that the sample is ‘truly representative of the population’.

Some of the observations made in the report by IIM-C on BARC India’s sample size include:

Appreciation of the existing practice and no need for any significant departure from the current sample sizes

Opportunity of gaining additional insights by 15% to 20% increase in sample size

The choice of 55K sample size for the next round appears quite reasonable

The professors even commended BARC India on its way of clearly and concisely documenting information of sample design and its overall data collection procedures.

Saibal Chattopadhyay, Professor of Statistics at IIM Calcutta and the team leader, says, “Three months of brainstorming and interaction with BARC India officials have been a very rewarding and enlightening experience for us. The assignment gave us a golden opportunity to directly apply our theoretical knowledge in the domain of Statistics to a complex practical problem involving TRP measurements in a country like India with enormous diversity among TV viewers. We are thankful to BARC India’s management for entrusting us with the task and are highly appreciative of their officials who have spent their valuable time to help us carry out the task to our satisfaction. BARC India has a good sample design framework in place and we have reasons to believe that they will find our report very useful and insightful.

Derrick Gray, Chief of Measurement Science, BARC India, says, "It is definitely a great honor that IIM-C, the country’s premiere management education institute has validated and endorsed our panel size and sampling methodology. This report by IIM-C has boosted the confidence of the entire BARC India team who work round the clock to deliver accurate, credible and robust viewership data, day-on-day, week after week. In a highly dynamic and diverse market like ours, it is a constant challenge to map the viewership patterns of 836 million individuals. But recognition like this always only makes us proud of the systems and technology set up that we have, which are at par with global standards.”

July 3, 2019
BBC Studios India appoints Sameer Gogate as Business Head, Productions

Mumbai: BBC Studios announces the appointment of Sameer Gogate as Business Head for India’s production business. Gogate, joins BBC Studios from the 1st of July, 2019. In his new role, he will lead India’s production business and report to Myleeta Aga, based in Singapore.

Gogate comes with a rich background in content, having worked across the TV and Film Industry with Eros International, Endemol and Viacom in various functions – including Business Planning, Commercial and Production Management for TV and Films. At Vuclip, he has been Head of Revenue and Business Development since 2017. He will be overseeing existing series in production, development of new concepts, format adaptations and branded content in his new role.

July 3, 2019
Sports genre emerges as most benefitted in Chrome DM week 26

MUMBAI: Sports genre has grown by 2.83 per cent in week 26 of Chrome Data Analytics and Media. In this genre, DD Sports channel gained the highest OTS with 93.8 per cent in all India 1 Lakh+ areas.

OTS is the actual census-based percentage connectivity of a channel spread across 81 million homes, as reported by Chrome DM, across analogue cable, digital cable, and DTH.

This week, English GECs gained second position that grew by 2.47 per cent in 6 metros market. In this genre Comedy Central gained the highest OTS with 31.1 per cent. English news genre stood on the third position by gaining 1.60 per cent in 6 metros space. Republic TV secured the highest OTS with 97.2 per cent.

English movies stood in fourth position in 6 metros markets and grew by 1.48 per cent. Warner Brothers gained the highest OTS with 41.1 per cent. Kids' genre stood in the fifth position and grew by 0.77 per cent in all India 1 Lakh+ market. In this genre, Discovery Kids gained the highest OTS with 86.3 per cent.

July 3, 2019
BARC week 25: ABP News back in combined urban & rural top 5 list

BENGALURU: The ABP Group’s Hindi news channel ABP News made a reappearance in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of top 5 Hindi news channels in the combined urban (U) and rural (R) Hindi speaking market or HSM (U+R) in week 25 of 2019 (Saturday, 15 June 2019 to Friday, 21 June 2019, week or period under review). The channel was last present in the HSM (U+R) list in week 22 of 2019. ABP news also re-appeared in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 news channels in HSM (U) at fifth rank. In both the cases – HSM (U+R) and HSM (U), the entry of ABP News in BARC’s weekly lists of top 5 Hindi news channels resulted in the exit of Republic Bharat from them. Further Zee News re-entered the HSM (R) list during the week under review.

BARC’s treatment of the landing page and outliers since week 23 of 2019 as well as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup 2019 in England & Wales continued to impact viewership ratings of Hindi news channels. The timings of the ongoing cricket tourney overlap primetime of most channels, including Hindi news channels. The combined viewership of the top 5 Hindi news channels which had dropped in week 24, plunged even further to a new nadir in individual HSM (U) and HSM (R) as well as the combined HSM (U+R) during week 25 of 2019.

Hindi news in HSM (U+R)

Aaj Tak retained its numero uno position in HSM (U+R) in week 25 of 2019 with 112.678 million weekly impressions as compared to 115.088 million weekly impressions in week 24. Also, continuing at second rank was News18 India with 85.899 million weekly impressions in week 25 as compared to 93.594 million weekly impressions in week 24 of 2019.

At third rank was India TV with 84.554 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019 as compared to third rank and 87.293 million weekly impressions in week 24. Zee News climbed up one place to fourth rank in HSM (U+R) in week 25 of 2019 with 82.955 million weekly impressions as compared to rank 5 and 80.790 million weekly impressions in the previous week. As mentioned above, ABP News entered the HSM (U+R) list in week 25 of 2019 with 77.011 million weekly impressions.

Hindi news in HSM (R)

In HSM (R) also, Aaj Tak retained first rank with 48.518 million weekly impressions in week 25 0f 2019 as compared to 49.718 million weekly impressions in the previous week. ABP News held onto its second spot in HSM (R) in week 25 of 2019 with 35.559 million weekly impressions as compared to 35.906 million weekly impressions in week 24.

India TV jumped up two ranks to third place in week 25 of 2019 in HSM (R) with 31.897 million weekly impressions as compared to fifth rank and 33.370 million weekly impressions in week 24. As mentioned above, Zee News re-entered BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi news channels in week 25 of 2019 at fourth rank with 31.053 million weekly impressions. Completing the quintet in HSM (R) at rank was Republic Bharat in week 25 of 2019 with 30.818 million weekly impressions as compared to 34.764 million weekly impressions and rank three in week 24.

Hindi news in HSM (U)

In the case of BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi news channels also, Aaj Tak retained first rank with 64.160 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019 with 64.160 million weekly impressions as compared to 65.370 million weekly impressions in week 24. Also retaining its previous week’s second rank was News18 India in HSM (U) in week 25 of 2019 was News19 India with 55.102 million weekly impressions as compared to 59.873 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

India TV also retained its third rank in week 25 of 2019 in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi news channels in HSM (U) with 52.657 million weekly impressions as compared to 53.913 million weekly impressions in week 24. Continuing on at rank 4 in week 25 of 2019 in HSM (U) was Zee News with 51.902 million weekly impressions as compared to 50.028 million weekly impressions in week 24. ABP News re-entered the HSM (U) list week 25 of 2019 with 41.452 million weekly impressions.

July 3, 2019
BARC week 25: Live cricket matches catapult Star Sports 1 Hindi to top spot across genres

BENGALURU: The live telecast of the India Pakistan ICC cricket world cup match in week 25 of 2019 (Saturday, 15 June 2019 to Friday, 21 June 2019, week or period under review) was among the most watched sports programme on three channels – Star Sports 1 Hindi, Star Sports 2 and DD Sports. One ICC World Cup other match – the live telecast of the Australia-Bangladesh on Star Sports 1 Hindi was the fifth most watched programme in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list of 5 most watched programmes during primetime during the week under review. Besides, the live telecast of Philips Hue Cricket on Star Sports 1 Hindi was the fourth watched sports programme during the week under review. These matches catapulted Star Sports 1 Hindi to first rank in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre in week 25 of 2019.

Sun TV Networks flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV pipped Dangal TV to second rank during the period under review, pushing the Hindi GEC to third rank. Seven Hindi GEC’s and one channel each from the Sports, Tamil and Telugu genres comprised BARC’s list of top 10 channels across genre in week 25 of 2019. From the network’s perspective, there were 3 channels from Star India, two channels each from Sony Pictures Network India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) and one channel each from Enterr 10 TV, Sun Tv Network and Viacom18 in BARC’s weekly list for week 25 of 2019.

Climbing up a place to first rank in week 25 of 2019 was Star Sports 1 Hindi with 1,186.783 as compared to second rank and 763.962 million weekly impressions in week 24. Star Sports 1 Hindi was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi Sports channels and as mentioned above. Further, the three of five most watched sports programmes as mentioned above were broadcast on Star Sports 1 Hindi during the week under review.

Also climbing up a place to second rank during week 25 of 2019 was Sun TV with 851.935 million weekly impressions as compared to third rank and 762.213 million weekly impressions in week 24. Sun TV also headed BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Tamil channels in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry markets and four of the top 5 Tamil programmes in this market based on average rating across all original airings in the week were aired on Sun TV.

Dropping two places to third rank in week 25 of 2019 was Enterr 10 TV’s Hindi GEC Dangal with 788.059 million weekly impressions as compared to first rank and 806.687 million weekly impressions in week 24. Dangal also headed BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in the combined urban and rural Hindi speaking market -HSM (U+R) and HSM (R). Dangal was ranked seventh in HSM (U). An Indian mythology programmes– Mahima Shanidev Ki and a family drama Baba Aiso Var Dhundo on Dangal were in BARC’s list of Top 5 Hindi GEC programmes based on average rating across all original airings in the week in HSM (R).

Climbing up a rank to fourth place was Zeel’s flagship Hindi GEC Zee TV with 701.670 million weekly impressions in week 25 as compared to fifth rank and 680.603 million weekly impressions in week 24. Zee TV was ranked second in HSM (U+R), HSM (U) and third in HSM (R) in BARC’s weekly list if top 10 Hindi GECs’. The Balaji Telefilms produced Kumkum Bhagya, its spinoff Kundali Bhagya and Tujhse Hai Raabta aired on Zee TV were among the top 5 Hindi GEC programmes based on average rating across all original airings in the week in HSM (U+R), HSM (R) and HSM (U).

Also climbing up to fifth place in week 25 of 2019 was Star India’ flagship Hindi GEC Star Plus with 682.166 million weekly impressions as compared to seventh rank and 624.298 million weekly impressions in week 24. Star Plus was also ranked third and fourth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) respectively and was ranked first in HSM (U). Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus was amongst BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes on average rating across all original airings in the week in HSM (U+R) in HSM (U).

Retaining its previous week’s sixth rank in week 25 of 2019 was Star India’s flagship Telugu GEC Star Maa with 663.013 million weekly impressions as compared to 626.797 million weekly impressions in week 25. Star Maa was also ranked first in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu GECs’ in the Andhra Pradesh/Telangana markets and all the five programmes in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Telugu programmes based on average rating across all original airings in the week in these markets were aired on Star Maa.

Dropping down three places to seventh rank in week 25 of 2019 was Zeel’s Hindi GEC Big Magic with 566.278 million weekly impressions as compared to fourth rank and 690.539 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Big Magic was ranked fourth and second in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) respectively. Big Magic was ranked eighth in BARC’s weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U).

SPN’s Hindi GEC Sony SAB also retained its previous week’s eighth rank in week 25 of 2019 with 536.918 million weekly impressions as compared to 552.626 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Sony SAB was ranked fifth, sixth and third in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and HSM (R) and (U) respectively. One of the longest running Indian sitcom – Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma on Sony SAB was among BARC’s weekly list of top 5 Hindi GEC programmes on average rating across all original airings in the week in HSM (U+R) and HSM (U).

Climbing up a rank to ninth place was Viacom18’s flagship Hindi GEC Colors in week 25 of 2019 with 513.035 million weekly impressions as compared to tenth rank and 521.025 million weekly impressions in week 24. Colors was ranked sixth in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked fifth in both HSM (R) in HSM (U).

Re-entering BARC’s weekly list of top 10 channels across genre was SPN’s flagship Hindi GEC Sony Entertainment Television (SET) with 479.487 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019. SET was ranked seventh in BARC’s weekly lists of top 10 Hindi GECs’ in HSM (U+R) and was ranked fourth in HSM (U)

July 2, 2019
BARC India launches PrimaVU to measure premium homes viewership patterns

MUMBAI: India’s sole TV viewership measurement company and the world’s largest audience measurement service, BARC India, today announced the launch of its new product “PrimaVU” which is aimed at measuring viewership from premium homes. Through “PrimaVU”, BARC India also introduces the industry first concept of “Viewing Minutes” which is basically sum of all individuals watching an Event basis the time spent by them. Also, PrimaVU is a separate product and not part of the currency panel measurement.

It is a product that caters to audience measurement solutions exclusively for premium homes. PrimaVU was launched by BARC India to meet the demands of the industry to measure what premium homes watch. There has been a demand from both broadcasters and advertisers to understand this segment and how to deliver advertising to them. In the past, very few attempts have been made to measure this exclusive set of consumers, and now with PrimaVU, this demand is being addressed.

The PrimaVU universe consists of the top 3 per cent of the socio-economic strata in the six megacities of the country. A household is defined as a premium home when it meets the following criteria set by the industry: they need to qualify as a NCCS A1 home, they must own a home with minimum three rooms as well as a kitchen, the home needs to have centralized or AC in 2 rooms, the household must own a laptop/desktop or smartphone/tablet, they must have a private car or own a 4-wheeler worth Rs 10 lakh or more and finally, they must have travelled to a premium holiday destinations.

Data insights & dashboard will be provisioned for PrimaVU subscribers who will have access to in-depth demographic & program level data as well as critical insights for the viewership trends of the economically affluent population of the country. The panel will currently measure TV viewership habits and will gradually move to capture viewership habits across devices. Agencies subscribing to PrimaVU will also be able to plan using a module in BMW.

“We are extremely pleased to be a thought leader once again with a product like PrimaVU. This product will not only help observe if the viewership patterns of premium homes are different from that of other homes but also provide in-depth insights into this unexplored world. The industry has been very patient and valuable with their suggestions for this product. It will allow the industry to qualify the untapped upmarket audience segment better and get a stronger fix on affluent viewers.” says BARC India CEO, Partho Dasgupta.

July 1, 2019
BARC India’s approach post TDSAT’s landing page order draws concern from some stakeholders

MUMBAI: Questions and controversies around TDSAT’s ruling on landing pages and BARC India’s subsequent flip-flop over implementation of its data validation and outlier policy refuse to die down. In a bid to allay transparency fears of a section within India’s broadcast sector, the BARC board approved a recommendation to set up a two-member committee to review the TV audience measurement body’s outlier policy.

“As you are aware, there has been a lot of confusion around the landing page in the market. Therefore in order to give confidence to the industry and the stakeholders, BARC board approved a recommendation to set a two-member committee. Mr Nakul Chopra and Mr Praveen Tripathi are industry leaders and their appointment only reiterates the BARC board’s reassurance to give confidence to the industry.

“Though we at BARC India, have been requested by many stakeholders to continue with the outlier policy, an independent overview of the process and any recommendation to improve, are always welcome and we look forward to working with this committee. Also, recently Deloitte had done a detailed audit on this process and found it clean” a BARC India spokesperson told Indiantelevision.com.

Despite the latest move being a step in the right direction, the naming of the two appointees hasn't really inspired "confidence" among some industry stakeholders. If the objective is to carry out an “independent overview”, those entrusted with the task should ideally be above suspicion of a potential or perceived conflict of interest irrespective of their calibre and competence, is a view expressed by several industry executives. While Chopra is a former BARC chairman, Tripathi as CEO of Magic9 Media and Analytics continues to be associated with BARC as a consultant/vendor. Tripathi's company had earlier helped BARC process data from barometers, identify outliers and project ratings.

While it isn't the board's job to wade through the minutiae of everyday operations, the fact that BARC's data validation and outlier policy mechanism and implementation has assumed game-changing proportions for the ecosystem is an aspect that needs its serious consideration, say some industry watchers.

"In the case of BARC, the problem is compounded as customers are also board members,” pointed out an industry source.

Some broadcasters, however, have raised more fundamental issues, which go beyond the BARC board’s involvement or lack of it in the outlier policy implementation.

“Is BARC circumventing the TDSAT order which allows landing pages as a legal practice?” questioned a senior news broadcasting executive.

The need of the hour, say some, is transparency of BARC’s internal mechanism in weeding out outliers given that there is a degree of subjectivity attached to it.

"As for the landing page, BARC has and does maintain that they cannot identify landing pages. The process can, however, identify reach outliers which could happen for landing pages in big cable networks for smaller viewed channels or when there is a distribution intervention like activation or improvement in availability. The same principle applies to content interventions also. Most analysts who keenly watch these numbers especially for genres like English news and business news do know this since the landing page discussions started some time back. At BARC, our mandate is to measure viewership with transparency and accuracy to provide a credible measurement," the BARC India spokesperson added.

Broadcasters that compete for a small viewership base fight for every eyeball. In an environment such as this, the landing page saga has boxed them into a state of flux when it comes to a post-TDSAT order strategy. The outcome of the two-member committee’s findings is what they keenly await in the hope of some clarity and reassurance.

July 1, 2019
BARC week 25: DD India back in second spot

BENGALURU: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s English news channel DD India was ranked second in Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s (BARC) weekly list of top five English news channels in week 25 of 2019 (Saturday, 15 June 2019 to Friday, 21 June 2019, week or period under review). DD India made it to second spot after a hiatus of four weeks. Earlier the Doordarshan Network’s English news channel was involved in a dingdong battle for the pole position with the Arnab Goswami-headed Republic TV between weeks 13 and 19 of 2019 until Republic TV overtook it.

There was a slight improvement in the combined total of the impressions garnered by the top 5 English news channels in week 25 as compared week 24. Many genres/channels ratings had plunged in week 23 when BARC reverted to a previous method of treating landed changes and outliers. Ratings of some channels/genres had plunged even further in week 24. It must be pointed out that around the same time (week 23 of 2019), ICC’s cricket World Cup 2019 being played at England and Wales commenced. Because of the difference in time zones, the second part of the matches overlapped and over shot primetime slots of most channels including news channels in India, hence probably impacting ratings.

Earlier, BARC had stopped publishing ratings in the public domain for seven weeks starting week 6 of 2019 until week 12 to enable viewership stabilise after the implementation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) new tariff order.

In week 25 of 2019, three channels from BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English news channels saw gains in ratings, while ratings of two fell. Republic TV continued to head BARC’s weekly list of English news channels with 0.572 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019 as compared to 0.556 million weekly impressions in the previous week. As mentioned above, DD India was ranked second with much improved ratings of 0.441 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.334 million weekly impressions and third rank in week 24.

At third rank was Times Now with 0.402 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019 as compared to 0.418 million weekly impressions and second rank in week 24. Moving up a place to fourth rank in the period under review was the India Today group’s English news channel India Today Television with 0.264 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.251 million weekly impressions in week 24 of 2019. Completing the quintet at rank 5 was CNN News18 with 0.261 million weekly impressions in week 25 of 2019 as compared to rank four and 0.289 million weekly impressions in the previous week.

June 29, 2019