Tag: Steve Richards

Succession Planning and Your Out of Home Company

At the October 2023 IBO show Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a Founders Journey Panel.  The panel included out of home execs from a small company (Charley McIntyre – Bullfrog Outdoor), a medium sized company (Steve Richards – Pacific Outdoor/Mile Hi Outdoor) and two larger companies (Bill Lodzinski – West […]

How to Scale an Out of Home Company

At last week’s IBO show Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a Founders Journey Panel.  The panel included out of home execs from a small company (Charley McIntyre, Bullfrog Outdoor), a medium sized company (Steve Richards, Pacific Outdoor/Mile Hi Outdoor) and two larger companies (Bill Lodzinski, West Virginia Outdoor and John […]

Advice to Someone Who Wants to Put Up a Digital Billboard

At last week’s IBO show Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a Founders Journey Panel.  The panel included out of home execs from a small company (Charley McIntyre, Bullfrog Outdoor), a medium sized company (Steve Richards, Pacific Outdoor/Mile Hi Outdoor) and two larger companies (Bill Lodzinski, West Virginia Outdoor and John […]

Company of the Day: Mile High Outdoor

Company: Mile High Outdoor Market:  Colorado. Headquarters: 9250 E Costilla Ave, Suite 500, Greenwood Village, CO  80112. Phone: 303-783-4000. Email: sales@milehighoutdoor. Mile High Outdoor was founded in 1996 and owns over 400 billboard faces in the Denver Metro area and the state of Colorado.   Business Times and Watchfire have written about the company’s digital sign installations.  Mile […]

Company of the Day: Pacific Outdoor

Company:  Pacific Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  Seattle, WA Phone:  206-536-3600 Email:  kelly@pacificoutdooradvertising.com Pacific Outdoor owns and operates 116 faces in the Seattle DMA.  Traditional and Digital Bulletins and Walls in Seattle/Tacoma, Snohomish County, Pierce County, and The Skagit Valley.  Pacific is the sales provider for the iconic Seattle Monorail with Train […]

Privacy Q&A…What Does “Privacy” Mean for OOH Media Companies?

  Steve Richards is the President & Partner at Mile High Outdoor & Pacific Outdoor and Chair of the OAAA Legislative Committee Three states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws: California, Virginia, and now Colorado. Steve Richards of Mile High Outdoor + Pacific Outdoor wanted to know more about the impact of privacy laws on his […]

Today’s Cannabis: “Reefer Madness” Prohibition Fades to Legal Vice

  By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs A sucker for lighthouses, I just visited one in Cambridge, MD, where the Choptank River meets Chesapeake Bay. Local boosters/history buffs note (inside the lighthouse) that watermen doubled as rumrunners during Prohibition. Prohibition (1920-1933), with its pervasive disrespect for law, didn’t […]

OAAA’s Mission, By Anna Bager

  OAAA’s Mission By: Anna Bager President & CEO, OAAA Click here to view the published article.   As the OOH industry’s leading trade organization, our mission is to protect, advocate, and accelerate the growth of the entire OOH industry on behalf of our members. We do this by advocating for […]

Pacific Outdoor Acquires Total Outdoor

Independently owned and operated Pacific Outdoor Advertising is pleased to announce the acquisition of Total Outdoor’s inventory in the Seattle market.  Pacific Outdoor offers comprehensive out-of-home advertising coverage throughout the Portland Metro with over 1,000 advertising displays, including Bulletins, Posters, Digital Billboards and Wallscapes. With the Seattle acquisition, Pacific will […]

Tips for Independent OOH Companies

By Steve Richards (president/partner, Mile High Outdoor & Pacific Outdoor) Nancy Fletcher of OAAA spoke to leadership of our affiliated companies (Mile High Outdoor, Pacific Outdoor Advertising, and American Outdoor Advertising today in Phoenix (November 5, 2018). She spoke about the future of independent billboard operators, offering encouragement and recommendations […]