{"id":1014713,"date":"2026-06-16T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014713"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:03:43","slug":"ipl-2026-becomes-most-watched-season-ever-reaching-over-1-2-billion-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/ipl-2026-becomes-most-watched-season-ever-reaching-over-1-2-billion-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 becomes most-watched season ever, reaching over 1.2 billion viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JioStar on Monday said the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League became the most-watched season in the tournament&#8217;s history, with total reach crossing 1.2 billion viewers across television and digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster said TATA IPL 2026 recorded a 7% year-on-year increase in reach, while cumulative watch-time touched 870 billion minutes, underlining the league&#8217;s enduring appeal as India&#8217;s biggest sporting spectacle. <\/p>\n<p>The season finale, which saw Royal Challengers Bengaluru lift their second consecutive IPL title, emerged as the most-watched match in the tournament&#8217;s history, attracting more than 400 million viewers across screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JioStar on Monday said the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League became the most-watched season in the tournament&#8217;s history, with total reach crossing 1.2 billion viewers across television and digital platforms. The broadcaster said TATA IPL 2026 recorded a 7% year-on-year increase in reach, while cumulative watch-time touched 870 billion minutes, underlining the league&#8217;s enduring appeal as India&#8217;s biggest sporting spectacle. The season finale, which saw Royal Challengers Bengaluru lift their second consecutive IPL title, emerged as the most-watched match in the tournament&#8217;s history, attracting more than 400 million viewers across screens.<\/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-1014713","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\/1014713","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=1014713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014735,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014713\/revisions\/1014735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}