Exchange4media.com reports that gory news gets soaring viewership on the news channels. When Zee News covered live a military operation to flush out terrorists from a house in Srinagar on September 24, its live four hour telecast registered an unprecedented viewership of over 7 per cent televison viwership rating in Delhi. The same evening the terrorist attack on the Askshardham temple in Gujarat began. That week recorded an overall increase in viewership for all news channels.