India:Evaluation of RFPs for BARC to be held from 14 August

The Evaluation Panel of the Technical Committee of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) will meet from 14 to 17 August in the hill station of Lonavla (close to Mumbai) to evaluate the responses to the Requests for Proposal (RFPs) received from 27 organisations. BARC had earlier received a total of 32 requests from different technology and research organisations for joining the process of television viewership monitoring. The committee has accepted 27 of these. Two of them - one technical and the other research - will make it to the finishing line.

"Some parties may have responded to both RFPs. Some may have sent in only the technical or research RFP," says BARC principal provocateur/advisor Paritosh Joshi.