House Committee Holding Hearing on Arbitron PPM

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing Dec. 2 on Arbitron's Portable People Meter and its effect on diversity. "With an unprecedented decline in ratings among popular minority television and radio stations, we must explore the possibility of methodological flaws in the implementation of the PPM," said Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) in a statement. "As it stands now," he said, "the current system jeopardizes the future of minority broadcasting."