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  • BARC week 36: English news ratings stay steady

    BARC week 36: English news ratings stay steady

    BENGALURU: The combined weekly ratings of the top 5 English news channels in week 36 of 2019 rose just 2.2 per cent as compared to week 35 – the combined weekly ratings of the top 5 English news channels in week 36 and 35 of 2019 were 2.038 million weekly impressions as compared to 1.994 million weekly impressions respectively. Three of the five channels in week 36 of 2019 saw their ratings increase, two saw them decline. While the five channels in  Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) weekly list were same, there was a slight tweaking in the ranks – channels with ranks one, two and three in week 36 of 2019 were same as in week 35, while ranks four and five swapped ranks. Please refer to the chart below:

    Please refer to the figure below for ranks of the Top 5 English news channels between weeks 13 and 36 of 2019.

    As in the previous week, Republic TV, Times Now and DD India were ranked first, second and third in week 36 of 2019. India Today Television moved one place up to rank 4 while CNN News18 dropped a place to rank 5 during the week under review.

    Republic TV scored 0.664 million weekly impressions in week 36 of 2019 as compared to 0.610 million weekly impressions in the previous week. Times Now scored 0.480 million weekly impressions in week 36 of 2019 as compared to 0.460 million weekly impressions in week 35. DD India while retaining rank third, saw ratings declined to 0.333 million weekly impressions in week 36 of 2019 from 0.372 million weekly impressions in week 35. India Today Television at fourth rank in week 36 of 2019 scored 0.298 million weekly impressions as compared to 0.266 million weekly impressions in week 35. CNN News18 saw ratings decline to 0.263 million weekly impressions in week 36 of 2019 from 0.286 million weekly impressions in the previous week.
     

  • Republic TV tops as most-watched private English news channel in new TRAI tariff regime

    Republic TV tops as most-watched private English news channel in new TRAI tariff regime

    BENGALURU: In week 5 of 2019 (Saturday, 26 January 2019 to Friday, 1 February 2019), the last week that Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) had published data on its website before the implementation of the new TRAI tariff regime, pubcaster Doordarshan’s English news channel DD News had sprung a surprise. DD News had run ahead of all its private peer genre channels and was the most-watched English news channel based on viewership data with 1.503 million weekly insertions in BARC’s weekly list of top 5 English news channels  (All India (U+R) : NCCS AB : Males 22+ Individuals). The private English news channel Republic News was the second most-watched channel in the English news genre with 0.725 million weekly insertions. Both the top English news channels, public as well as private, in week 13 of 2019 are free-to-air (FTA).

    BARC has recommenced putting up weekly viewership data on its website starting with week 13 of 2019 (Saturday, 23 March 2019 to Friday, 29 March 2019). The ranking status quo for the top three was the same – DD News topped viewership data in week 13 with 0.737 million weekly impressions, followed by Republic TV at second spot with 0.618 million weekly impressions. Hence, the Arnab Goswami headed Republic TV was the most watched private English news channel in the country.

    At third place was Times Now with 0.421 million weekly impressions. At fourth spot was Network18’s CNN News18 with 0.286 million weekly impressions very closely followed by India Today Television with 0.284 million weekly impressions. In week 5 of 2019, it was India Today Television that was ranked fourth followed by CNN News18.