B.A.R.B or the (Broadcasters Audience Research Board) is an organisation that compiles audience’s feedback and television ratings in the United Kingdom. B.A.R.B was mainly created to replace a previous system, where the BBC and ITV companies compiled their own ratings.
The organisation itself works by attaching a TV box onto the sides of people’s houses.
At the moment there are currently 5100 B.A.R.B TV boxes around the UK this averaging to about 11.500 individuals.
This box works by, recording exactly what programmes they watch, and the panellists indicate who is in the room watching by pressing a button on a remote control handset.
The data is then collected overnight and published as overnight ratings at around 9.30 the following morning for use by TV stations and the advertising industry.
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