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UK ratings: Geo Tez steams ahead of rivals

Geo Tez
Geo Tez

Geo Tez has exceeded expectations by climbing up the ratings chart in the UK, surpassing all South Asian news channels bar ARY News, according to official data from BARB for week ending 23rd November.

The fast-paced style Pakistani news channel delivered a weekly reach of 308,000 viewers – leaving sister channel, Geo TV behind with 250,000 viewers. ARY News remained market leader in the news genre with an impressive 537,000 viewers. SAMAA TV also continued its good-run with 285,000 viewers. ABP News led the Indian news genre with 210,000 viewers, followed by NDTV 24×7 with 181,000 viewers and Aaj Tak with 176,000 viewers. News 18 India remained on the lower side with 68,000 viewers.

In the entertainment sector, Star Plus continued its reign with 1,054,000 viewers (down from 1,104,000 viewers), followed by a resurgent Colors with 841,000 viewers and UMP Movies in third with 730,000 viewers (up from 728,000 viewers). Rishtey took fourth place with 681,000 viewers (up from 679,000 viewers) and Zing was in fifth with 541,000 viewers (down from 612,000 viewers).

The rest of the channels included Life Ok with 509,000 viewers, HUM TV Europe with 459,000 viewers, Lamhe with 451,000 viewers, SAB TV with 442,000 viewers, Star Gold with 437,000 viewers, PTC Punjabi with 252,000 viewers, PTV Global with 236,000 viewers and DM Global with 146,000 viewers.