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Michael Skarzynski, the chief executive of radio ratings company Arbitron, told a congressional panel last month that he had attended a training session in November, a false statement that led to his resignation from the Columbia MD-based company on Monday. Skarzynski told the House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform on 12/2 that he had personally checked out his company’s controversial new Portable People Meter electronic listener-survey system by attending a training meeting for survey participants in Prince George’s County two weeks earlier. In fact, Skarzynski told people at the company that he had not been at the meeting. In a letter to the House committee on Monday, Arbitron Executive Vice President Alton Adams said Skarzynski acknowledged “a misstatement” and had resigned as a result. The Washington Post has more. Update: On Wednesday, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is again calling for a “thorough investigation into the PPM methodology.” Radio Online has more…..

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1) WLIF, 2) WWIN-FM, 3) WERQ, 4) WPOC, 5) WWMX, 6) WQSR, 7) WIYY, 8) WRBS-FM, 9) WBAL-AM, 10) WYPR, 11) WJZ-FM, 12) WZFT, 13) WZBA, 14) WCBM, 15) WASH and WPGC, 17) WBJC, 18) WCAO, 19) WAMU and WWDC, 21) WIHT, 22) WTOP and WHUR, 24) WKYS, 25) WBIG and WRQX and WXCY, 28) WGTS, 29) WMAL and WLZL, 31) WTGB and WEAA and WTMD and WTEM, 35) WMZQ and WETA-FM and WRNR-FM, 38) WMMJ, 39) WJZ-AM and WFRE…..

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The Baltimore Portable People Meter monthly radio ratings for October, full-day, cume, age 6+: 1) WWIN-FM, 2) WLIF, 3) WPOC, 4) WWMX, 5) WERQ, 6) WRBS, 7) WIYY, 8) WBAL-AM, 9) WQSR, 10) WCBM and WCHH, 12) WJZ-FM, 13) WYPR. More: 16) WZBA, 17) WCAO, 19) WBJC, 33) WEAA, 35) WRNR and WJZ-AM and WTMD, 40) WWIN-AM, 47) WNST and WOLB and WVIE…..

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We’re getting to see a few more details from those new Portable People Meter radio ratings for Baltimore in September. WIYY, 98 Rock, tops the men age 25-54 demo, with WWIN-FM, WERQ, WLIF, and WPOC rounding out the top five. New sports talker WJZ-FM is 8th, and DC all-newser WTOP 10th. WIYY also takes the top spot in the testosterone demo during morning drive. In morning drive, male and female, age 12+, WWIN-FM is 1st, with WPOC, WLIF, WWMX, and WBAL-AM in the top five…..

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The latest round of the new Portable People Meter radio ratings for Baltimore, for the month of September, age 6+, full-week: 1) WWIN-FM, 2) WLIF, 3) WPOC, 4) WWMX, 5) WERQ, 6) WRBS, 7) WIYY, 8) WQSR, 9) WBAL-AM, 10) WJZ-FM, 11) WYPR, 12) WCBM, 13) WCHH, 14) WCAO and WPGC and WZBA, 17) WBJC and WHUR and WAMU and WIHT and WKYS, 22) WTOP