Month: September 2016

Clear Channel Outdoor/Polaris Partner To Prevent Trafficking

September 1, 2016 Minneapolis, Minnesota — Polaris and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA), a division of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), together with Congressman Erik Paulsen, today unveiled an anti-human trafficking awareness campaign to run on 53 digital billboards throughout Minnesota. The new campaign, launching today and running […]

Rumor Has It – Sept 3

Sales leaders are leaving Clear Channel Outdoor.   Numerous VP sales spots open.  Questions as to whether Branch Presidents can pick up the slack. Third quarter national outdoor business may be down for all the outdoor companies except maybe Lamar.  Hard to believe given the strong start to the year. […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Sells Rockford to Key Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor has sold its Rockford, Illinois plant to Key Outdoor.  The transaction was brokered by Max Drachman of Kalilco & Co.  Insider talked with Drachman about the sale. How did this transaction come about? Key Outdoor is one of the largest independent Outdoor operators in the Midwest. We […]

Company of the Day: River Products

Company:  River Products, Inc. Markets: Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, New York Pennsylvania Headquarters: 5500 Poplar Ave, Suite 2, Memphis, TN  38119 Phone: 901-684-1584 River Products, Inc. owns and operates over 250 Outdoor Advertising Displays including digital displays, trivisions and static boards in the following states: Tennessee Mississippi Alabama New York Pennsylvania […]

D.C. Attorney General Takes Action To Remove Signs

In a recent lawsuit, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is requesting removal of a number of brightly-lit electronic signs erected downtown to play advertisements. The complaint at D.C. Superior Court names Digi Media Communications and a number of downtown property owners and operators for “illegal construction,” calling for injunctive relief. The […]

Company of the Day – Riley Outdoor

Company:  Riley Outdoor Headquarters:  704C Plaza Blvd. #106, Kinston, NC 28501 Markets: Signs located throughout eastern North Carolina  Phone: 252-527-2223 Email: RobertMoore@RileyOutdoor.com Insider had the opportunity to talk with Robert Moore who owns Riley Outdoor. Can you share a little about the history of Riley Outdoor? Riley Outdoor was started […]

Sign Design Tips from the IBOUSA

This week’s billboard creative design tips from from the IBOUSA website.  The IBOUSA is a professional organization for independent regional billboard operators.  Insider thanks Chris Cowlbeck for permission to reprint. QUICK Test – print your design, go back 30’ and if you can’t read it in 4 seconds, change it! […]

Independent Seeks Approval For Milford Digital Billboards

The Milford Mirror reports that attorney Winthrop Smith has proposed a regulation change to the Milford Planning and zoning board on behalf of Independent Outdoor to permit electronic billboards along I-95.  The change was proposed at the Board’s August 16 meeting.  The proposal has been submitted to the city attorney, […]

Lamar Mt Washington Sign Dispute Continues

Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that Lamar was found not guilty of maintenance violations relating to the 32 by 225 foot long  Mt Washington billboard which Lamar installed in May of this year.  The City of Pittsburgh is attempting to make Lamar take the sign down by saying that the sign […]