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About TNS Media Research

TNS Media Research provides Internet, TV, and radio audience measurement worldwide. The expertise and technology of this international operation supports audience services in over 30 countries, including Canada, China, Russia, Spain, the UK and the US.

At TNS we’ve built our entire business strategy around giving our clients what they need.  At the core of everything we do is a profound commitment to understanding and servicing our clients. As such we are are looking for our people to be able to provide information and advice that gives our clients the competitive edge in a challenging market – to deliver actionable insight and manage client relationships.

Our client, BARB (Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board) provides audience measurement for television broadcasters and the advertising industry in the UK. BARB’s members are the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BSkyB and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

Over the next 7 years TNS will provide BARB with viewing estimates from panels of television owning households representing the viewing behaviour of over 24+ million households within the UK. In each panel home, electronic ‘people meters’ are attached to watch TV in the home. Each meter automatically identifies and collects information about the programme and the channel that the panel member is viewing. This information is collected via modem each night and is used to derive the ratings data for the BARB subscribers. Ratings data is available the next day.

Our field technicians are responsible for installing and maintaining the TV monitoring equipment in panel households...

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