{"id":1000727,"date":"2026-04-02T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000727"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:49:41","slug":"ipl-2026-opening-weekend-reach-crosses-515-million-across-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/ipl-2026-opening-weekend-reach-crosses-515-million-across-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 opening weekend reach crosses 515 million across platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JioStar has kicked off the IPL 2026 season with its biggest-ever opening weekend, underlining its dominance as the home of cricket in India. Backed by two high-scoring matches featuring 200+ run chases, the tournament recorded record-breaking reach and engagement across both television and digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The opening weekend delivered a combined reach of over 515 million viewers across linear TV and digital. Total watch-time stood at 32.6 billion minutes, marking a 26% increase over the opening matches of the previous season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JioStar has kicked off the IPL 2026 season with its biggest-ever opening weekend, underlining its dominance as the home of cricket in India. Backed by two high-scoring matches featuring 200+ run chases, the tournament recorded record-breaking reach and engagement across both television and digital platforms. The opening weekend delivered a combined reach of over 515 million viewers across linear TV and digital. Total watch-time stood at 32.6 billion minutes, marking a 26% increase over the opening matches of the previous season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}