Technical Properties of the Arbitron PPM System Aug 19, 2009 9:00 AM, By Barry Blesser Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) system is currently replacing its old paper diary system. There are a ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2006--Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) announced today that Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBSA), one of the largest Hispanic radio broadcasting companies in ...

The Speaker and six other members of the New York City Council have introduced a resolution calling on Arbitron to hold up PPM deployment and for the FCC to investigate whether there is ethnic or ...

Two US Senate committee chairmen have written to Arbitron CEO Steve Morris expressing concerns about whether the Portable People Meter (PPM) under-reports minority listenership and thus threatens ...

Local radio operators are bracing for a potential ratings shake-up. The introduction of Arbitron Co.’s Portable People Meter in the Indianapolis market this summer is expected to tighten the ratings ...

Arbitron Inc., the radio ratings company, is changing the way it measures listening habits in the San Antonio area. The new method promises to shake up radio station rankings, which in turn could lead ...

Project portfolio management (PPM) vendors promise to help customers juggle competing investment priorities, reduce IT failures, and improve alignment between technology and their business. Given ...

Is Nielsen preparing to support an aggressive rollout of portable people meters (PPM), the promising new system that can measure ratings for both TV and radio, and potentially other media and ...

While some radio broadcasters have been wary about the potential impact of portable people meters (PPM), Arbitron's new means of monitoring radio listenership, could lift radio revenue far beyond its ...

Houston's KODA-FM (Sunny 99.1), has experienced a significant increase in ratings since switching to an all Christmas format, according to data emerging from the Arbitron (NYSE:ARB) Portable People ...

NEW YORK — Radio industry leader Clear Channel Communications Inc. has agreed to use a new electronic rating system in the top 50 U.S. markets, a person familiar with the agreement said. The ...