Mumbai: ET NOW owned by BCCL, which also owns TOI, continues to top ratings table, according to BARC, in the English business news category (NCCS AB Males 22+| All India 1 million+ markets), with a 48% viewership share, the latest data of week 34 showed. Its nearest competitor, CNBC TV18, had a viewership share of 27%.
ET NOW has a channel share of 42% across the last 4-week period (week 31 to week 34 in 2015) while CNBC TV18 trailed with a 38% share in the same period.
The Channel’s overall viewership jumped 65% in the last eight weeks (week 27 to week 34), over the previous 6-week period (week 21 to week 26) and a massive 140% during market hours in the same period.
ET NOW further consolidated its dominance in the critical market-hour band as well, with a 51% share versus 28% share of CNBC TV18 in the latest week. Currently , ET NOW is leading in 1-million-plus Metros in market hour.
ET NOW spearheaded coverage of the market melt down by breaking all programming formats and getting the biggest stakeholders on air with market gurus like Madhu Kela and Shankar Sharma analysing the market volatility exclusively on ET NOW.
At the same time, India’s biggest policymakers, including finance minister Arun Jaitley and chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, spoke to only one channel -ET NOW -on whether the China crash could turn into a historic opportunity for India.
