Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak, CNBC Awaaz maintain lead: BARC week 2

Times Now, ET Now, Aaj Tak, CNBC Awaaz maintain lead: BARC week 2

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MUMBAI: Times Network’s English and business news channel Times Now and ET Now respectively continue to lead their respective genres in week 2. The leadership has also been maintained in this week’s Hindi and Hindi business news genres with Aaj Tak and CNBC Awaaz dominating the genres respectively, according to the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) all India ratings.

 

English News

 

Times Now continues to rule the English news genre and has stayed in the first position with 473 (‘000s) followed by India Today Television climbing to the second place with 220 (‘000s). NDTV 24x7 moves to the third position with 218 (‘000s), while CNN-IBN was in fourth place with 194 (‘000s). News 9 enters the list at the fifth position with 105 (‘000s).

 

English Business News

 

ET Now continues to dominate the English business news genre with 372 (‘000s) followed by CNBC TV18 with 213 (‘000s) in the second place. NDTV Profit and NDTV Prime stays at the third position with 100 (‘000s) while Bloomberg TV maintained its fourth slot with 31 (‘000s).

 

Hindi News

 

Aaj Tak retains its lead with 90739 (‘000s) followed by India TV garnering the second position with 70846 (‘000s). ABP News stands at number three with 59283 (‘000s). News Nation takes a step ahead in the row gaining the fourth position with 54996 (‘000s) followed by India News with 54815 (‘000s) grabbing the fifth slot.

 

Hindi Business News

 

CNBC Awaaz leads the genre with 1608 (‘000s) followed by Zee Business with 901 (‘000s) at number two.