MUMBAI: Republic TV continued to lead the English news genre as per All India BARC data week 42. No changes were noticed this week in the English news and English business news genre. Aaj Tak maintained its lead across every Hindi news genre for yet another week. Hindi news urban genre remained unchanged. Zee News is not present in the top five list of Hindi news genre (rural). News Nation enters the top five list in Hindi news (rural) market.
English News
Republic TV maintained its lead in the first position in the English news genre with 917 impressions ‘000. Times Now at second and CNN News 18 at third hold onto their respective positions with 723 impressions ‘000 and 293 impressions ‘000. India Today Television is at fourth position with 264 impressions ‘000. NDTV 24X7 is at fifth position with 222 impressions ‘000.
English Business News
No changes were observed this week as well. CNBC TV18 continued to rule in the English business news genre with 518 impressions '000. ET Now and BTVI maintained their second and third positions with 180 impressions '000 and 50 impressions '000. CNBC TV18 Prime HD also retained its fourth position with 7 impressions '000.
Hindi News (U+R)
Aaj Tak continued to lead the Hindi news (U+R) genre with 123942 impressions ‘000 followed by News18 India with 95544 impressions ‘000. ABP News and India TV are at third and fourth position after interchanging their positions with 94649 impressions ‘000 and 8886 impressions ‘000 respectively. Zee News sits at fifth position with 83702 impressions ‘000.
Hindi News Rural
Aaj Tak held onto its first position with 60622 impressions ‘000. ABP News, News18 India and India TV are at second, third and fourth positions with 50087 impressions ‘000, 41431 impressions ‘000 and 37463 impressions ‘000, respectively. News Nation enters the top five list at the fifth spot with 36454 impressions ‘000.
Zee News was at the fifth spot last week but not this.
Hindi News Urban
Aaj Tak stood on top with 63320 impressions ‘000. News18 India at second place with 54113 impressions ‘000. India TV and Zee News were at third and fourth places with 51344 impressions ‘000 and 49017 impressions ‘000, respectively. ABP News in the fifth place with 44561 impressions ‘000.
