Category: Viewership

  • BARC week 20: Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak and CNBC Awaaz lead

    BARC week 20: Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak and CNBC Awaaz lead

    MUMBAI: According to week 20 of BARC India ratings, Times Now continued to top the English News genre with improved ratings. ET Now grabbed the top spot in English Business News yet again. In the Hindi News genre Aaj Tak replaced India TV at number one position while CNBC Awaaz secured number one position this week also. The election results week effect was visible.

    English News

    Times Now maintained its number one spot with a rise in rating to 523 Impressions (000s), from 378 Impressions (000s) last week. India Today Television stood on second position with 259 Impressions, with a rise in rating from 160 Impressions (000s) from week 19. CNN News18 climbed up a position with 258 Impressions (000s) to third spot. While NDTV 24×7 moved down to fourth position with 224 Impressions (000s). News X grabbed last spot with 73 Impressions (000s).

    English Business News

    ET Now continued to top its space with improved rating of 129 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV18 also saw a slight improvement with 97 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime also continued its third position with 28 Impressions (000s). Bloomberg TV was on last spot with 9 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak jumped up a position in the Hindi News space pushing down India TV with 64910 Impressions (000s). India TV dropped to second spot with 60096 Impressions (000s). ABP News garnered 43585 Impressions (000s) and grabbed third spot. India News with 40368 Impressions (000s) was on fourth position. News Nation was on fifth place with 38794 Impressions (000s). 

    Hindi Business News
    CNBC Awaaz maintained top position with improved ratings from 553 Impressions (000s) from last week to 663 Impressions (000s) in week 20. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 457 Impressions (000s) in comparison to 377 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

  • BARC week 20: Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak and CNBC Awaaz lead

    BARC week 20: Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak and CNBC Awaaz lead

    MUMBAI: According to week 20 of BARC India ratings, Times Now continued to top the English News genre with improved ratings. ET Now grabbed the top spot in English Business News yet again. In the Hindi News genre Aaj Tak replaced India TV at number one position while CNBC Awaaz secured number one position this week also. The election results week effect was visible.

    English News

    Times Now maintained its number one spot with a rise in rating to 523 Impressions (000s), from 378 Impressions (000s) last week. India Today Television stood on second position with 259 Impressions, with a rise in rating from 160 Impressions (000s) from week 19. CNN News18 climbed up a position with 258 Impressions (000s) to third spot. While NDTV 24×7 moved down to fourth position with 224 Impressions (000s). News X grabbed last spot with 73 Impressions (000s).

    English Business News

    ET Now continued to top its space with improved rating of 129 Impressions (000s). CNBC TV18 also saw a slight improvement with 97 Impressions (000s). NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime also continued its third position with 28 Impressions (000s). Bloomberg TV was on last spot with 9 Impressions (000s).

    Hindi News

    Aaj Tak jumped up a position in the Hindi News space pushing down India TV with 64910 Impressions (000s). India TV dropped to second spot with 60096 Impressions (000s). ABP News garnered 43585 Impressions (000s) and grabbed third spot. India News with 40368 Impressions (000s) was on fourth position. News Nation was on fifth place with 38794 Impressions (000s). 

    Hindi Business News
    CNBC Awaaz maintained top position with improved ratings from 553 Impressions (000s) from last week to 663 Impressions (000s) in week 20. The second spot was taken by Zee Business with 457 Impressions (000s) in comparison to 377 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

  • BARC week 20: English entertainment and movie spots shuffled; Discovery continues to top

    MUMBAI: According to week 20 of BARC India, 6 Mega Cities : NCCS AB : 4+ Individuals rating, Zee café climbed back to its top position. AXN dropped a place in the English entertainment space. Star Movies returned to top spot, pushing Movies Now to second spot. Discovery continued to top the infotainment genre.

    English Entertainment

    Zee Café climbed up and replaced AXN on first position, with a rise in rating to 247 Impressions (000s). AXN followed on second spot with 223 Impressions (000s). Star world with 183 Impressions (000s) grabbed third position. Comedy Central with 167 Impressions (000s) and Colors Infinity SD with 135 Impressions (000s) took fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    English Movies

    Star Movies repossessed its top position replacing Movies Now with 2684 Impressions (000s). Movies now dropped a rank to second spot scoring 2593 Impressions (000s). Sony Pix secured third spot with 1663 Impressions (000s). Zee Studio grabbed fourth position with 1415 Impressions (000s) and HBO got fourth spot with 1126 Impressions (000s).

    Infotainment

    Discovery continued to rule infotainment genre with 4881 Impressions (000s). History TV18 followed on second position with 3899 Impressions (000s). National Geographic Channel with 3305 Impressions (000s) and Animal Planet with 3298 Impressions (000s) grabbed third and fourth position respectively. Nat Geo Wild was on the last spot with 2005 Impressions (000s).

     

  • BARC week 20: English entertainment and movie spots shuffled; Discovery continues to top

    BARC week 20: English entertainment and movie spots shuffled; Discovery continues to top

    MUMBAI: According to week 20 of BARC India, 6 Mega Cities : NCCS AB : 4+ Individuals rating, Zee café climbed back to its top position. AXN dropped a place in the English entertainment space. Star Movies returned to top spot, pushing Movies Now to second spot. Discovery continued to top the infotainment genre.

    English Entertainment

    Zee Café climbed up and replaced AXN on first position, with a rise in rating to 247 Impressions (000s). AXN followed on second spot with 223 Impressions (000s). Star world with 183 Impressions (000s) grabbed third position. Comedy Central with 167 Impressions (000s) and Colors Infinity SD with 135 Impressions (000s) took fourth and fifth positions respectively.

    English Movies

    Star Movies repossessed its top position replacing Movies Now with 2684 Impressions (000s). Movies now dropped a rank to second spot scoring 2593 Impressions (000s). Sony Pix secured third spot with 1663 Impressions (000s). Zee Studio grabbed fourth position with 1415 Impressions (000s) and HBO got fourth spot with 1126 Impressions (000s).

    Infotainment

    Discovery continued to rule infotainment genre with 4881 Impressions (000s). History TV18 followed on second position with 3899 Impressions (000s). National Geographic Channel with 3305 Impressions (000s) and Animal Planet with 3298 Impressions (000s) grabbed third and fourth position respectively. Nat Geo Wild was on the last spot with 2005 Impressions (000s).

     

  • BARC week 20: News Live 24×7 toppled Rang; no major change in the genre  leaders

    BARC week 20: News Live 24×7 toppled Rang; no major change in the genre leaders

    MUMBAI: According to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India data, week 20 saw News Live 24×7 toppling Rang in the Assamese genre while Star Jalsha, Big Magic Ganga, Colors Kannada, Asianet, Sarthak TV, Zee Marathi, Sun TV, Zee Telugu, Colors Gujarati sustained  dominance in their respective spaces.

    Assamese GECs

    News Live 24×7 took the number one position with 17295 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Rang in the second place with 11557 Impressions (‘000s).  Pratidin Time with 9517 Impressions (‘000s) and DY 365 with 9391 Impressions (‘000s) held the third and fourth places respectively. Prag News was fifth in line with 6912 Impressions (‘000s).

    Bangla GECs

    Star Jalsha stood at the number one position with 183623 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Zee Bangla in the second place with 128836 Impressions (‘000s). Jalsha Movies with 51863 Impressions (‘000s) and ABP Ananda with 50688 Impressions (‘000s) held on to the third and fourth places respectively. Aakaash Aath grabbed the fifth position with 32727 Impressions (‘000s).

    Bhojpuri GECs

    Big Magic Ganga took the first position with 22950 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Bhojpuri Cinema with 9145 Impressions (‘000s) in the second place. Dabangg grabbed the third spot with 6706 Impressions (‘000s) while Dangal TV bagged the fourth place with 4674 Impressions (‘000s). ETV Bihar Jharkhand took the fifth spot with 2051 Impressions (‘000s).

    Kannada GECs

    Colors Kanada took the first spot with 225583 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Kannada was in the second spot with 190600 Impressions (‘000s). Udaya Movies claimed the third spot with 164294 Impressions (‘000s). Suvarna stood at fourth place with 140283 Impressions  (‘000s) while Udaya TV grabbed the  fifth position with 135644 (‘000s).

    Malayalam GECs

    Asianet held the top slot with 253446 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Mazhavil Manorama with 108554 Impressions (‘000s) in the second place. Flowers TV maintained its place at number three with 65847 Impressions (‘000s).  Surya TV with 59524 (‘000s) stood at number four and Asianet News with 56732 (‘000s) was at number five.

    Oriya GECs

    Sarthak TV took the first position with 77249 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Tarang TV with 54446 Impressions(‘000s).  Colors Oriya took the third berth with 14741Impressions (‘000s) whereas Odisha TV grabbed the fourth position with 14233 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Alankar with 8181Impressions (‘000s) in fifth place.

    Marathi GECs

    Zee Marathi maintained its pole position with 128817 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Colors Marathi with 96591 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Talkies bagged the third position with 50639 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Maiboli in the fourth spot with 40849 (000s). 9X Jhakaas stood in the fifth position with 36042 (000s).

    Tamil GECs

    Sun TV remained the undisputed leader in the Tamil space with 888302 Impressions (‘000s). KTV was at number two with 275660 Impressions (‘000s), whereas Star Vijay held the third spot with 167929 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Tamil took the fourth place with 104383 Impressions (‘000s), while Polimer stood at number five with 79393Impressions (‘000s).

    Telugu GECs

    Zee Telugu lead the genre with 418203 Impressions (‘000s) followed by ETV Telugu with 375976 Impressions (‘000s). Maa TV took the  third spot with 368090 Impressions (‘000s), whereas Gemini TV stood at the fourth position with 328225 Impressions (‘000s). Gemini Movies with 172197 Impressions (‘000s) grabbed the fifth position.

    Gujarati GECs

    Colors Gujarati dominated the space with 8283 Impressions (000’s) followed by TV 9 Gujarati with 5992 Impressions (000’s).  ETV News Gujarati grabbed the third spot with 2058 Impressions (000’s). DD Girnar with 1775 Impressions (000’s) and Sandesh News with 1461 Impressions (000’s) bagged the fourth and fifth spot respectively.

  • BARC week 20: News Live 24×7 toppled Rang; no major change in the genre  leaders

    BARC week 20: News Live 24×7 toppled Rang; no major change in the genre leaders

    MUMBAI: According to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India data, week 20 saw News Live 24×7 toppling Rang in the Assamese genre while Star Jalsha, Big Magic Ganga, Colors Kannada, Asianet, Sarthak TV, Zee Marathi, Sun TV, Zee Telugu, Colors Gujarati sustained  dominance in their respective spaces.

    Assamese GECs

    News Live 24×7 took the number one position with 17295 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Rang in the second place with 11557 Impressions (‘000s).  Pratidin Time with 9517 Impressions (‘000s) and DY 365 with 9391 Impressions (‘000s) held the third and fourth places respectively. Prag News was fifth in line with 6912 Impressions (‘000s).

    Bangla GECs

    Star Jalsha stood at the number one position with 183623 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Zee Bangla in the second place with 128836 Impressions (‘000s). Jalsha Movies with 51863 Impressions (‘000s) and ABP Ananda with 50688 Impressions (‘000s) held on to the third and fourth places respectively. Aakaash Aath grabbed the fifth position with 32727 Impressions (‘000s).

    Bhojpuri GECs

    Big Magic Ganga took the first position with 22950 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Bhojpuri Cinema with 9145 Impressions (‘000s) in the second place. Dabangg grabbed the third spot with 6706 Impressions (‘000s) while Dangal TV bagged the fourth place with 4674 Impressions (‘000s). ETV Bihar Jharkhand took the fifth spot with 2051 Impressions (‘000s).

    Kannada GECs

    Colors Kanada took the first spot with 225583 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Kannada was in the second spot with 190600 Impressions (‘000s). Udaya Movies claimed the third spot with 164294 Impressions (‘000s). Suvarna stood at fourth place with 140283 Impressions  (‘000s) while Udaya TV grabbed the  fifth position with 135644 (‘000s).

    Malayalam GECs

    Asianet held the top slot with 253446 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Mazhavil Manorama with 108554 Impressions (‘000s) in the second place. Flowers TV maintained its place at number three with 65847 Impressions (‘000s).  Surya TV with 59524 (‘000s) stood at number four and Asianet News with 56732 (‘000s) was at number five.

    Oriya GECs

    Sarthak TV took the first position with 77249 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Tarang TV with 54446 Impressions(‘000s).  Colors Oriya took the third berth with 14741Impressions (‘000s) whereas Odisha TV grabbed the fourth position with 14233 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Alankar with 8181Impressions (‘000s) in fifth place.

    Marathi GECs

    Zee Marathi maintained its pole position with 128817 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Colors Marathi with 96591 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Talkies bagged the third position with 50639 Impressions (‘000s) followed by Maiboli in the fourth spot with 40849 (000s). 9X Jhakaas stood in the fifth position with 36042 (000s).

    Tamil GECs

    Sun TV remained the undisputed leader in the Tamil space with 888302 Impressions (‘000s). KTV was at number two with 275660 Impressions (‘000s), whereas Star Vijay held the third spot with 167929 Impressions (‘000s). Zee Tamil took the fourth place with 104383 Impressions (‘000s), while Polimer stood at number five with 79393Impressions (‘000s).

    Telugu GECs

    Zee Telugu lead the genre with 418203 Impressions (‘000s) followed by ETV Telugu with 375976 Impressions (‘000s). Maa TV took the  third spot with 368090 Impressions (‘000s), whereas Gemini TV stood at the fourth position with 328225 Impressions (‘000s). Gemini Movies with 172197 Impressions (‘000s) grabbed the fifth position.

    Gujarati GECs

    Colors Gujarati dominated the space with 8283 Impressions (000’s) followed by TV 9 Gujarati with 5992 Impressions (000’s).  ETV News Gujarati grabbed the third spot with 2058 Impressions (000’s). DD Girnar with 1775 Impressions (000’s) and Sandesh News with 1461 Impressions (000’s) bagged the fourth and fifth spot respectively.

  • BARC week 20: Sun TV back to pole position again across genres

    BARC week 20: Sun TV back to pole position again across genres

    MUMBAI: Week 20 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) All India data has been seeing the pendulum shift back and forth as the IPL season 9 backed Sony Max was again relegated to second spot by Sun TV and by a substantial margin at that. Star Utsav moved up to seventh from the tenth position in week 19, while Zee Telugu, the only other regional channel among the top 10, returned to tenth place from the previous week’s ninth slot. The list covers the top 10 channels across all genres.

    Returning to the top slot once again, Sun TV reported 950618 Impression (000s) in week 20 as compared to 944626 Impression (000s) in week 19. Sony Max lost ratings with a score of 881515 Impression (000s) from 944851 Impression (000s) in week 19 to fall back to second place.

    In the ding dong battle between third and fourth spots, Star Plus once again climbed to number three in week 20 with 702036 Impression (000s) as compared to 664177 Impressions (000s) in week 19. Colors was fourth with 668837 Impressions (000s) as compared to 703707 Impression (000s) in week 19

    Zee TV retained fifth space in week 20 with lower ratings of 627367 Impressions (000s) as compared to 639647 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. Sony Pal remained at number six with 497247 Impressions (000s) as compared to 503774 Impressions (000s) to the previous weeks ratings

    Star Utsav moved up to seventh place while pushing down Zee Anmol in week 20, with 461430 Impressions (000’s) as compared to 453454 Impressions (000’s) in week 19

    Life OK also retained eighth spot with 456716 Impressions (000s) as compared to the previous week’s 471354 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol moved down two places to ninth place in week 20 with 451646 Impressions (000s) as compared to 500101 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

    The only other regional channel in the list of top ten channels across genres, Zee Telugu, returned back to tenth spot in week 20 with 432613 Impressions (000s) as compared to 46866 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

  • BARC week 20: Sun TV back to pole position again across genres

    BARC week 20: Sun TV back to pole position again across genres

    MUMBAI: Week 20 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) All India data has been seeing the pendulum shift back and forth as the IPL season 9 backed Sony Max was again relegated to second spot by Sun TV and by a substantial margin at that. Star Utsav moved up to seventh from the tenth position in week 19, while Zee Telugu, the only other regional channel among the top 10, returned to tenth place from the previous week’s ninth slot. The list covers the top 10 channels across all genres.

    Returning to the top slot once again, Sun TV reported 950618 Impression (000s) in week 20 as compared to 944626 Impression (000s) in week 19. Sony Max lost ratings with a score of 881515 Impression (000s) from 944851 Impression (000s) in week 19 to fall back to second place.

    In the ding dong battle between third and fourth spots, Star Plus once again climbed to number three in week 20 with 702036 Impression (000s) as compared to 664177 Impressions (000s) in week 19. Colors was fourth with 668837 Impressions (000s) as compared to 703707 Impression (000s) in week 19

    Zee TV retained fifth space in week 20 with lower ratings of 627367 Impressions (000s) as compared to 639647 Impressions (000s) in the previous week. Sony Pal remained at number six with 497247 Impressions (000s) as compared to 503774 Impressions (000s) to the previous weeks ratings

    Star Utsav moved up to seventh place while pushing down Zee Anmol in week 20, with 461430 Impressions (000’s) as compared to 453454 Impressions (000’s) in week 19

    Life OK also retained eighth spot with 456716 Impressions (000s) as compared to the previous week’s 471354 Impressions (000s).

    Zee Anmol moved down two places to ninth place in week 20 with 451646 Impressions (000s) as compared to 500101 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

    The only other regional channel in the list of top ten channels across genres, Zee Telugu, returned back to tenth spot in week 20 with 432613 Impressions (000s) as compared to 46866 Impressions (000s) in week 19.

  • BARC week 20: Sony Pal topples Zee Anmol while Star Plus replaces Colors

    BARC week 20: Sony Pal topples Zee Anmol while Star Plus replaces Colors

    MUMBAI: In this week 20 post the segregation of BARC ratings into rural and urban, Sony Pictures Network’s free to air channel Sony Pal has toppled down Zee Anmol in the rural genre while Star Plus has replaced Colors in the urban space.

    Rural HSM Data

    Sony Pal garnered the first position with 382703 Impressions (000’s) followed by Star Utsav with 364512 Impressions (000’s) and Zee Anmol with 352241 Impressions (000’s) stood at number three.

    Zee Networks’ Hindi GEC channel Zee TV bagged the fourth spot with 267343 Impressions (000’s) while another FTA Rishtey grabbed fifth spot with 261310 Impressions (000’s).

    Colors stood at sixth spot with 221685 Impressions (000’s) followed by Star Plus at number seven with 215485 Impressions (000’s) and Life OK at number eight with 160105 Impressions (000’s).

    In rural data, Big Magic stood at number nine with 157675 Impressions (000’s) and Sab TV with 107724 Impressions (000’s) grabbed tenth spot.

    Urban HSM data

    Star Plus replaced Colors leading the Hindi general entertainment channel (GECs) with 431857 Impressions (000’s) followed by Colors with 414213 (000’s) on second slot and Zee TV with 315703 Impressions (000’s) at third place.

    Life OK, Sab TV and Sony Entertainment Channel bagged fourth, fifth and sixth position with 283930 Impressions (000’s), 264192Impressions (000’s) and 216711 Impressions (000’s) respectively.

    &TV with 127052 Impressions (000’s) stood at number seven while Sony’s free to air channel Sony Pal grabbed eighth spot with 113523 (000’s) and Zee Anmol at ninth with 98875 Impressions (000’s).

    Star Utsav stood at number ten with 94964Impressions (000’s)

  • BARC week 20: Sony Pal topples Zee Anmol while Star Plus replaces Colors

    BARC week 20: Sony Pal topples Zee Anmol while Star Plus replaces Colors

    MUMBAI: In this week 20 post the segregation of BARC ratings into rural and urban, Sony Pictures Network’s free to air channel Sony Pal has toppled down Zee Anmol in the rural genre while Star Plus has replaced Colors in the urban space.

    Rural HSM Data

    Sony Pal garnered the first position with 382703 Impressions (000’s) followed by Star Utsav with 364512 Impressions (000’s) and Zee Anmol with 352241 Impressions (000’s) stood at number three.

    Zee Networks’ Hindi GEC channel Zee TV bagged the fourth spot with 267343 Impressions (000’s) while another FTA Rishtey grabbed fifth spot with 261310 Impressions (000’s).

    Colors stood at sixth spot with 221685 Impressions (000’s) followed by Star Plus at number seven with 215485 Impressions (000’s) and Life OK at number eight with 160105 Impressions (000’s).

    In rural data, Big Magic stood at number nine with 157675 Impressions (000’s) and Sab TV with 107724 Impressions (000’s) grabbed tenth spot.

    Urban HSM data

    Star Plus replaced Colors leading the Hindi general entertainment channel (GECs) with 431857 Impressions (000’s) followed by Colors with 414213 (000’s) on second slot and Zee TV with 315703 Impressions (000’s) at third place.

    Life OK, Sab TV and Sony Entertainment Channel bagged fourth, fifth and sixth position with 283930 Impressions (000’s), 264192Impressions (000’s) and 216711 Impressions (000’s) respectively.

    &TV with 127052 Impressions (000’s) stood at number seven while Sony’s free to air channel Sony Pal grabbed eighth spot with 113523 (000’s) and Zee Anmol at ninth with 98875 Impressions (000’s).

    Star Utsav stood at number ten with 94964Impressions (000’s)