MUMBAI: Republic TV continued to lead the English news genre as per All India BARC data week 41. No changes were noticed this week in the 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 dropped from its previous week’s position in all three genres. India TV climbs to third position in Hindi (U+R).
English News
Republic TV maintained its lead in the first position in the English news genre with 860 impressions ‘000. Times Now at second and CNN News 18 at third hold onto their respective positions with 664 impressions ‘000 and 306 impressions ‘000. India Today Television is at fourth position with 210 impressions ‘000. NDTV 24X7 enters the top five list at fifth position with 199 impressions ‘000.
Mirror Now which was at fifth place last week is nowhere to be seen.
English Business News
No changes were observed this week as well. CNBC TV18 continued to rule in the English business news genre with 621 impressions '000. ET Now and BTVI maintained their second and third positions with 227 impressions '000 and 77 impressions '000. CNBC TV18 Prime HD also retained its fourth position with 12 impressions '000.
Hindi News (U+R)
Aaj Tak continued to lead the Hindi news (U+R) genre with 118239 impressions ‘000. News18 India climbed a slot to the second position with 99497 impressions ‘000. India TV climbed two slots to the third position with 93081 Impressions ‘000. ABP News with 90822 impressions ‘000 retained its position. Zee News fell three slots to the fifth position with 88878 impressions ‘000.
Hindi News Rural
Aaj Tak held onto its first position with 55320 impressions ‘000. ABP News is at the second spot with 46066 impressions ‘000. News18 India climbed a slot to the third position with 42987 impressions ‘000 followed by India TV, a new entrant in the list with 39256 impressions ‘000. Zee News dropped two slots to the fifth position with 38801 impressions ‘000.
Hindi News Urban
Aaj Tak stood on top with 62919 impressions ‘000. News18 India at second place with 56510 impressions ‘000. India TV and Zee News were at third and fourth places after interchanging their positions with 53825 impressions ‘000 and 50077 impressions ‘000, respectively. ABP News in the fifth place with 44756 impressions ‘000.
