Arbitron has released their revised numbers for the Rhode Island morning drive time for the Spring of '08.  Most notably is the fact that WPRO-AM significantly dropped in ranking from #4 to #9. 

Last week ABC 6 reported that Arbitron, the company that tracks ratings by sending out diaries to random households, was saying that something wasn't quite adding up with their spring numbers.

They ended up throwing out the information from 6 diaries, which all came from the same household.  They said that those diaries would not be included in their final numbers because they came from a house that had some connection to local radio or TV.

Arbitron still isn't saying where that house is, but WPRO competitor WHJJ claimed it was in East Greenwich, the same town where WPRO-AM morning drive host, John DePetro lives.  WHJJ said 6 people from that house listened to DePetro's show for more than 109 hours out of a possible 120, just in one week alone.

Here are the revised numbers, released by Arbitron (persons 25-54, average Quarter Share):

 Former Rank               Current Rank

 
1-  WHJY-FM                1-  WHJY-FM
 
2-  WEEI-FM                 2-  WEEI-FM
 
3-  WPRO-FM               3-  WPRO-FM
 
4-  WPRO-AM               4-  WWLI-FM
 
5-  WWLI-FM                 5-  WCTK-FM
 
6-  WCTK-FM                6-  WSNE-FM
 
7-  WSNE-FM                7-  WPMZ-AM
 
8-  WPMZ-AM                8-  WWBB-FM
 
9-  WWBB-FM               9-  WPRO-AM
 
10-WJMN-FM               10- WJMN-FM

ABC 6 reporter Julie Ruditzky has more...