Discussion Week 18 2026 | BARC Data

[Ramesh.]

Top 10 Channels - All India, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Utsav 2237.02
2 STAR Maa 1954.35
3 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 1894.66
4 SONY SAB 1883.25
5 Sun TV 1751.57
6 Zee TV 1516.26
7 STAR Plus 1495.24
8 Zee Telugu 1477.5
9 Dangal 1400.24
10 Goldmines 1325.0

Top 5 Channels - AP/Telangana, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Maa 1816.75
2 Zee Telugu 1417.02
3 ETV Telugu 768.78
4 Sun Gemini 625.35
5 Star Maa Movies 569.27

Top 5 Channels - Assam/North East/Sikkim, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Jalsha 93.07
2 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 88.83
3 Zee TV 83.7
4 Zee Bangla 77.55
5 Goldmines 58.87

Top 5 Channels - Bihar/Jharkhand, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Dangal 190.23
2 B4U Bhojpuri 127.31
3 Goldmines 118.71
4 Zee TV 111.93
5 STAR Utsav 106.69

Top 5 Channels - Delhi, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Colors 157.08
2 Zee TV 152.93
3 STAR Plus 139.65
4 SONY SAB 130.75
5 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 98.29

Top 5 Channels - Guj /D&D /DNH, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 SONY SAB 530.27
2 STAR Plus 285.56
3 STAR Utsav 264.34
4 Sony Pal 257.34
5 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 253.24

Top 5 HSM (U+R) NCCS All 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Utsav 2218.73
2 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 1861.85
3 SONY SAB 1848.86
4 Zee TV 1483.01
5 STAR Plus 1459.27

Top 5 Channels - Karnataka, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Zee Kannada 1109.98
2 Colors Kannada 736.02
3 Star Suvarna 613.81
4 Sun Udaya 445.19
5 Sun Udaya Movies 340.29

Top 5 Channels - Kerala, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Asianet 635.4
2 Flowers TV 170.23
3 Sun Surya 141.72
4 Mazhavil Manorama 139.79
5 Zee Keralam 132.65

Top 5 Channels - Mah/Goa, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Pravah 1090.51
2 Zee Marathi 724.35
3 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 549.26
4 SONY SAB 547.98
5 Sun Marathi 336.09

Top 5 Channels - Mega Cities, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 SONY SAB 324.18
2 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 311.32
3 Sun TV 284.49
4 Zee Telugu 259.29
5 Zee TV 257.72

Top 5 Channels - MP/Chhattisgarh, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Utsav 519.24
2 Dangal 215.25
3 Goldmines 212.68
4 STAR Plus 201.96
5 SONY SAB 193.67

Top 5 Channels - Odisha, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Tarang 286.17
2 Zee Sarthak 253.4
3 Siddharth TV 130.49
4 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 84.44
5 Alankar 74.92

Top 5 Channels - Pun/Cha, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Utsav 209.37
2 PTC Punjabi 164.07
3 Dangal 101.46
4 PTC Simran 92.51
5 Colors Rishtey 86.21

Top 5 Channels - Rajasthan, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Utsav 243.51
2 Dangal 159.2
3 Sony Pal 152.56
4 SONY SAB 124.71
5 Colors Rishtey 104.33

Top 5 Channels - South, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Maa 1926.94
2 Sun TV 1738.42
3 Zee Telugu 1464.71
4 Zee Kannada 1118.5
5 Zee Tamil 994.62

Top 5 Channels - TN/Pondicherry, 2+
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RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Sun TV 1551.52
2 Zee Tamil 915.44
3 STAR Vijay 868.67
4 KTV 485.08
5 Sun TV HD 273.39

Top 5 Channels - UP/Uttarakhand, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 Dangal 342.05
2 STAR Utsav 302.24
3 STAR Plus 194.18
4 Zee TV 193.85
5 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 165.49

Top 5 Channels - West Bengal, 2+
RANK Channels WEEKLY AMA’000 {AVG.}
1 STAR Jalsha 657.44
2 Zee Bangla 475.64
3 STAR Sports 1 Hindi 127.82
4 Colors Bangla Cinema 118.31
5 Sun Bangla 115.91

 

[Ramesh.]

All Tamil channels ratings reduced more due to election results

 

[Ramesh.]

Sun Tv HD back to top 5 in Tamil

Sun Surya back to top 5 & No 3 in Keralam

Colors Bangla Cinema @ Top 4

 

[Athreya B N]

Analysis-
All Jiostar channels irrespective of language has drastically went down. This decreasing process has started from many weeks still they're adamant and overconfident about themselves and in deep sleep. Already competitors are overtaking. They just simply boast themselves as biggest network and sleep back. Their strategies are failing and no counter back for competition. Simply doing same thing and continuing as what they're doing.

1. In Hindi Star Plus and Sab were competing each other for top hindi channel, with colors giving them tough competition slightly, out of nowhere zee TV has raced fast that it has overtaken colors and even star plus, which is a shame for jiostar that both the channels are behind.
2. In Tamil star vijay is overtaken. Also if you see south ratings, 3 languages domination of zee. Eventually they'll get to top of the list if this continues.
3. Zee Marathi closing the gaps with pravah despite IPL running. Ofc we can say IPL viewership is reduced and boring in the middle. But still the conscious efforts and racing can be witnessed.
4. In Telugu also the gap is decreasing consistently between maa and zee.
5. In Kannada, (before merger) colors did same mistake of being adamant and over confident when they were number 1 and neglected zee progress eventually getting dethroned and never able to comeback strongly till now. The same mistake is happening in all languages. After merger Kannada market has become even more worst with team doesn't doing anything new and big. Competing against themselves and let zee sit comfortable at no.1. Fools. By seeing Udaya making progress it'll simply overtake Suvarna in upcoming days.

 

[Aksgr]

Analysis-
All Jiostar channels irrespective of language has drastically went down. This decreasing process has started from many weeks still they're adamant and overconfident about themselves and in deep sleep. Already competitors are overtaking. They just simply boast themselves as biggest network and sleep back. Their strategies are failing and no counter back for competition. Simply doing same thing and continuing as what they're doing.

1. In Hindi Star Plus and Sab were competing each other for top hindi channel, with colors giving them tough competition slightly, out of nowhere zee TV has raced fast that it has overtaken colors and even star plus, which is a shame for jiostar that both the channels are behind.
2. In Tamil star vijay is overtaken. Also if you see south ratings, 3 languages domination of zee. Eventually they'll get to top of the list if this continues.
3. Zee Marathi closing the gaps with pravah despite IPL running. Ofc we can say IPL viewership is reduced and boring in the middle. But still the conscious efforts and racing can be witnessed.
4. In Telugu also the gap is decreasing consistently between maa and zee.
5. In Kannada, (before merger) colors did same mistake of being adamant and over confident when they were number 1 and neglected zee progress eventually getting dethroned and never able to comeback strongly till now. The same mistake is happening in all languages. After merger Kannada market has become even more worst with team doesn't doing anything new and big. Competing against themselves and let zee sit comfortable at no.1. Fools. By seeing Udaya making progress it'll simply overtake Suvarna in upcoming days.

they dont care about traditional Tv , they are badly batting for CTV and FAST

 

[Shark]

Hindi TV Shows
Zee TV at #1 #2 #4

 

[abs257]

Vasudha literally on fire mode... Now 2 Zee TV shows r ahead of Kyunki... Laughter Chefs and TMKOC did well... TDSM falling more, now below 1...

 

[Athreya B N]

they dont care about traditional Tv , they are badly batting for CTV and FAST

Then its hypocrisy of Jiostar. They did merger and created biggest media network which operates more tv channels. They changed their previous strategy from priority digital approach to balancing both TV and digital equally after merger. Already linear TV is dying but after merger industry kept hopes of TV channels survival. But Irony of Jiostar is they're not focusing with clear strategy and not perfectly keeping neither TV nor digital strong. Either to stick what they said (tv + digital equal balance) or focusing on either TV/digital.

 

[Chinnmay]

Happy for Zee Marathi hope it becomes No.1 channel of Maharashtra one day with trp of 1600+ like Star Pravah used to get before IPL.

 

[shawl_who]

wow.... infact, ZEE has 3 serials in top 4

LC3 has improved a bit !