Channel ratings: Genre leaders continue to dominate

Channel ratings: Genre leaders continue to dominate

BARC

MUMBAI: Times network shone this week with Times Now as the undisputed leader in the English News space and ET Now dominated the English business news genre. According to week 37 of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India data, in the Hindi news genre, Aaj Tak continued to lead whereas CNBC Awaaz ranked number one in Hindi Business News.

English news

Times Now maintained its first position with 446 Impressions (000s). CNN News18 took the second position with 204 Impressions (000s). NDTV 24x7 settled on the third berth with 193 Impressions (000s). India Today television grabbed the fourth spot with 139 Impressions (000s) whereas News X sustained its fifth position with 79 Impressions (000s).

English business news

ET Now dominated the space with 157 Impressions (000s) followed by CNBC TV18  that secured the second slot with 153 Impressions (000s).  NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime with 93 Impressions (000s) and BTVi with 13 (‘000s) Impressions (000s) took the third and fourth positions respectively.

Hindi news

Aaj Tak stood at the first spot with 82288 Impressions (000s) followed by India TV at the second position with 75059 Impressions (000s).  India News sustained was at third position with 75059 Impressions (000s) followed by ABP News securing the fourth position with 58691 Impressions (000s). Zee News took the fifth position with 52913 Impressions (000s).

Hindi business news

CNBC Awaaz grabbed the first spot with 877 Impressions (000s) whereas Zee Business stood at the second spot with 593 Impressions (000s).