India Ratings: DD India overtakes Republic TV in news genre
DD India
State broadcaster, DD India beat Republic TV for the first time in the English news category, according to Week 5 of 2019 data from BARC India.
DD India recently re-positioned itself as an English news channel and has fast climbed up the popularity chart. The channel entered the Top 5 list of English news channels for the first time in Week 3 of 2019.
Top 5 English news channels
| Broadcaster | Week 5 | Week 4 | |
| 1 | DD India | 1503 | 596 |
| 2 | Republic TV | 725 | 632 |
| 3 | Times Now | 611 | 471 |
| 4 | India Today TV | 356 | 237 |
| 5 | CNN News18 | 309 | 239 |
Aaj Tak dominated the Hindi news genre with 148,179 million Impressions, followed by News18 India with 123,559 million Impressions and ZEE News with 123,266 million Impressions.
