BARC Ratings: TV9 tops but NTV sees steep fall
Ravi Prakash’s TV-9 has become supreme in Telugu news channels and the latest Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) ratings shows that it continuous to be a leader. Veteran journalist Rajinikanth’s prime time BIG Debate has been garnering consistently good BARC ratings.
In a very surprising decline, NTV which has been closely trailing behind TV9 has seen a steep fall to sixth position, giving its second place to TV5. ABN persisted at third spot. With NTV’s fall in ratings, 10TV and V6 secured fourth and fifth places respectively.
T-news which has been closely competing with Sakshi for quite some time now, is leading at seventh leaving the eighth spot for Y S Jagan’s media house.
The ninth and tenth position of ETV AP and ETV TS evidently prove that the media mogul Ch Ramoji Rao’s dream of surpassing TV-9 is not going to happen any time soon.
I News, Gemini News, HMTV, Studio N and TV1 are the tail enders respectively.
BARC News Channels Ratings:
Market : Total AP+TS TG:15+, Wk 42/Wk 41
All News Channels GRPs – 381.7/379
| Channels | Ratings |
|---|---|
| TV9 | 69.1/60.3 |
| TV5 | 46.3/42.6 |
| ABN | 45.6/42.5 |
| 10TV | 38.3/39.4 |
| V6 | 37.6/34.4 |
| NTV | 37/44.8 |
| T News | 28.1/26.3 |
| Sakshi | 23.1/30.9 |
| ETV AP | 15.8/15.6 |
| ETV TG | 9.8/9.6 |
| I News | 8.4/6.7 |
| Gem News | 8.3/7.9 |
| HMTV | 8.2/11 |
| Studio N | 3.6/4.5 |
| TV 1 | 2.4/2.6 |
