In an otherwise weak period for Hindi news channels recording an 11% drop in viewership in Week 16 over the previous week, Arnab Goswami pulled it off for his Hindi news channel Republic Bharat by taking Congress President Sonia Gandhi head-on.
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While the channel jumped to the No. 2 position in the current week’s viewership data between April 18 and 24, Goswami’s show ‘Poochta Hai Bharat’, in which he attacked Congress President for her alleged silence on the lynching of sadhus, led the Hindi news genre with over 20% market share.
‘Poochta Hai Bharat’ aired between 7 and 8 pm delivered 22.5 mn Impressions for Republic Bharat in Week 16 with a lead margin of over 45% from the No. 2 show in that slot.
The Hindi news genre continued to be led by Aaj Tak with 295.7 mn Impressions despite a drop of 15.7% over the previous week. Republic Bharat held its viewership at 244.3 mn Impressions.
India TV retained the No. 3 position 233 mn Impressions followed by ABP News with 211.8 mn Impressions and Zee News with 211.3 mn Impressions.
TV9 Bharatvarsh dropped marginally to 194.6 mn Impressions but replaced News18 India from No. 6.
News18 India recorded 186 mn impressions.
News Nation and Aaj Tak’s sister channel Tez were at No No. 8 and 9, respectively.
Imp’000 (Sum) |
Last Week WK 15 |
Current Week WK 16 |
Change (%) |
Aaj Tak |
350766 |
295700 |
-15.70% |
Republic Bharat |
244655 |
244354 |
-0.12% |
India TV |
249898 |
233017 |
-6.76% |
ABP News |
267044 |
211859 |
-20.67% |
Zee News |
242763 |
211294 |
-12.96% |
TV9 Bharatvarsh |
198729 |
194628 |
-2.06% |
News18 India |
215358 |
186175 |
-13.55% |
News Nation |
127101 |
114191 |
-10.16% |
Tez |
98084 |
82300 |
-16.09% |
News24 |
85468 |
76156 |
-10.90% |
Zee Hindustan |
71478 |
63901 |
-10.60% |
India News |
65964 |
58630 |
-11.12% |
NDTV India |
44627 |
36224 |
-18.83% |
Samay |
2546 |
2244 |
-11.86% |
Total |
2264481 |
2010671 |
-11.21% |