BARC India Shifts to Reporting Pay and Free Platform Data Separately Starting Week 27

Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) announced on Monday that they would start reporting viewership data and report for pay and free platforms separately, beginning week 27. This period means June 27 to July 5, 2019. It is worth noting that Broadcast Audience Research Council has been reporting feedback from the industry for better understanding the viewership habits and patterns of TV viewers. It has also reported acute insights and views from industry stakeholders as well to understand the viewership in India better. Now with the change in rules of the Indian broadcasting and DTH industry and a new form being picked up in terms of norms, the publishing of viewership data also required to be slightly changed. As such, BARC has followed suite.

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New Feedback to be Available Above Current Rural and Urban Cuts

The new way of reporting the viewership data with Pay and Free platforms will be available over and above the rural and urban cuts which BARC currently reports. BARC has also noted that these reports will be available to all subscribers for planning and analysis through the proprietary BARC Media Workstation Software, and also it will be published on the website for select genres.

It is worth noting that the Free platform which BARC will be reporting about is a kind of subscription of viewers where they do not need to pay a monthly rent every month and instead they have to simply pay a one-time fee for installation of the set-top box. A big player in this game is DD Free Dish. As opposed to a free connection, a Pay connection would be your standard DTH connection where you are required to pay for the services all year long.