UK ratings: Star TV grabs top two spots, Sahara One shoots up

Star Plus and Star Gold have occupied the top two spots in the latest round of UK Asian TV data supplied by BARB.

Star Plus, as ever is the market leader with a huge weekly reach of 1,269, while Star Gold pushed UMP Movies down to third. Star Gold was in second with 675,000. UMP Movies was just behind with 634,000. Star Life Ok was in fourth with 443,000.

Surprisingly, Sahara One pushed Zing, Sunrise TV and Sony SAB TV out the way to grabd the fifth position for the first time. Sahara One had its best ever weekly reach since joining BARB in July. The channel got 420,000. Sunrise TV was next with 389,000. Zing suffered this week losing 82,000 over the past seven days. It was down from 428,000 to 346,000.

Sony SAB TV delivered a weekly reach of 327,000. UMP Stars also impressed this week with 301,000 – the best weekly reach since the channel launched.

ARY News bounced back up to 468,000, while Al Jazeera English remained the most watched Asian news channel with 626,000.