COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) today announced that it will present at the 10th Annual CJS Securities 'New Ideas for the New Year' Investor Conference, which will take place Thursday, January 14, 2010 in New York City.

William T. Kerr, president and chief executive officer, and Sean Creamer, chief financial officer, will provide an overview of the Company's business and financial highlights on Thursday, January 14th, at 2:40 p.m. ET.

This event will be available as a live, listen-only webcast. To access the live webcast of the event, visit the Company's website at www.arbitron.com and click on 'investors.' The presentation will also be archived for 30 days in the investor relations section of the Company's website: www.arbitron.com.

About Arbitron

Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) is a media and marketing research firm serving the media - radio, television, cable, online radio and out-of-home - as well as advertisers and advertising agencies. Arbitron's core businesses are measuring network and local market radio audiences across the United States; surveying the retail, media and product patterns of local market consumers; and providing application software used for analyzing media audience and marketing information data. The company has developed the Portable People Meter(TM), a new technology for media and marketing research.

PPM(TM) and Portable People Meter(TM) are marks of Arbitron Inc.

Arbitron Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this release that are not strictly historical, including the statements regarding expectations for 2010 and any other statements regarding events or developments that we believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future, may be "forward-looking" statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, among other things, the current global economic recession and the upheaval in the credit markets and financial services industry, competition, our ability to develop and successfully market new products and technologies, our ability to successfully commercialize our Portable People Meter(TM) service, the growth rates and cyclicality of markets we serve, our ability to expand our business in new markets, our ability to successfully identify, consummate and integrate appropriate acquisitions, the impact of increased costs of data collection including a trend toward increasing incidence of cell phone-only households, litigation and other contingent liabilities including intellectual property matters, our compliance with applicable laws and regulations and changes in applicable laws and regulations, our ability to achieve projected efficiencies, cost reductions, sales growth and earnings, and international economic, political, legal and business factors. Additional information regarding the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is available in our SEC filings, including our 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release and the Company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

SOURCE Arbitron Inc.