MUMBAI: ABP News saw a three-spot jump last week, but moved back to the fifth position in the Hindi news urban genre in BARC week 51. Zee News and India TV are at fourth and fifth positions after interchanging their slots respectively in Hindi news (U+R) and Hindi news rural genre. The English business news genre saw no changes again this week.
English news
Republic TV maintained its lead in the first position in the English news genre with 792 impressions ‘000. Times Now came in at second place with 676 impressions ‘000. CNN News18 after a week’s gap came at second position with 292 replacing impressions ‘000 India Today Television which dropped to the fourth position with 289 impressions ‘000. NDTV 24X7 with 177 impressions ‘000 continued to stand at the fifth position.
English business news
The English business news genre yet again saw no changes this week. CNBC TV18 continued to stay in the first place with 405 impressions '000. ET Now and BTVI stood in their second and third positions with 161 impressions '000 and 40 impressions '000. CNBC TV18 Prime HD also held on to its fourth position with 12 impressions '000.
Hindi news (U+R)
Aaj Tak continued to stay on top of the Hindi news (U+R) genre with massive 146,758 impressions ‘000. News18 India has moved up a slot to the second position with 119872 impressions ‘000. ABP News dropped a slot to the third position 108,950 impressions ‘000. Zee News and India TV are at fourth and fifth position after interchanging their slots with 106468 impressions ‘000 and 99024 impressions ‘000, respectively.
Hindi news rural
Aaj Tak is positioned first in the Hindi news rural genre with 71,173 impressions ‘000. ABP News and News18 India are at second and third positions with 56,904 impressions ‘000 and 53,820 impressions ‘000, respectively. Zee News and India TV are at fourth and fifth position after interchanging their slots with 45480 impressions ‘000 and 39793 impressions ‘000 respectively.
Hindi news urban
Aaj Tak stood on top with 75,585 impressions ‘000 followed by News18 India which climbed a slot to the second position with 66052 impressions ‘000. Zee News climbed two slots to the third position with 60989 impressions ‘000. India TV dropped a spot to the fourth position with 59230 impressions ‘000. ABP News witnessed a steep fall of three spots to the fifth position with 52046 impressions ‘000.