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Daktronics Revenues Grow 30% for 3 Months Ended October 2021

Daktronics revenues have recovered from covid but supply chain issues are impacting the digital billboard maker’s profits.  Here are the results from the Daktronics 2Q FY 22 earnings release and earnings call for the 3 months ended October 31, 2021. Revenue increased by 30% to $165 million due to eased […]

CDC Reduces Quarantine Guidelines for Asymptomatic Covid-19 Cases

Formetco’s safety director Jim Poage passes along the following article to Billboard Insider on the CDC’s decision this week to shorten COVID-19 isolation and quarantine periods.  This means asymptomatic employees can come back to work sooner than they previously could. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)announced that […]

Company of the Day: Driggers Media

Company: Driggers Outdoor Markets: Louisiana Headquarters: 1440 Goodwin Road, Ruston, LA  71270 Phone: 318-251-0244 Driggers Outdoor has over 100 sign locations in Louisiana stretching along I-20 as well as I-49 south from Shreveport.  The company is an operator associate of the IBOUSA.   Rodney Driggers is the company’s President. Rodney, how did you enter […]

Billboard Leases on Tribal Land

Think you can write a lease with a tribe and be done with it?  Not so fast, especially if the tribe hasn’t qualified under the Hearth Act. The Hearth Act is a federal law  passed in 2012 which allows Indian tribes to write business leases for a primary term of […]

Lindmark Buys 18 Faces from Tillery in New Mexico

NORMAN, OK. – Lindmark Outdoor Media announced today the purchase of all Outdoor Advertising displays from Tillery Chevrolet-GMC, Inc. in New Mexico, representing the second acquisition in such state during this month of December.  The eighteen (18) displays are all located along I-40 outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Terms of […]

How Should A Landlord Determine Market Rents?

Out of home development expert Andy Goodman writes for Billboard Insider on development issues.  His last column discussed billboards on native american tribe lands.  Today he discusses the best way to determine market rent for a billboard lease. So the question here is how do I know that I’m getting […]

Colorado Court Upholds Billboard Regulations Triggered by Compensation

On December 6, 2021 the US District Court for the District of Colorado dismissed a request by Street Media Group and Turnpike Media to throw out Colorado’s billboard regulations.  Street Media Group and Turnpike Media argued that Colorado State Department of Transportations sign rules were unconstitutional because they were impermissibly […]

Company of the Day: DDI Media

Company:  DDI Media Markets: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee Headquarters:  8315 Drury Industrial Parkway, St Louis, MO  63114 Phone: 314-423-5040 DDI media operates a billboard plant with more than 1,400 faces concentrated in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee.  Tim Drury is the Company’s President.  Pat McLaughlin is SVP and General […]

Jim Poage on Keeping Employees Safe in Cold Weather

By Jim Poage, Safety Director, Safeco Incorporated A study was performed by the Navy SEALS that revealed that if you are wearing wet clothes, in sixty degree weather, for sixty minutes, you will begin to experience the first stages of hypothermia. Because of this low temperature threshold, it is extremely […]

OUTFRONT Acquires Total Outdoor Wall Assets

NEW YORK, NY  – December 22, 2021 — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) announced that it has acquired 21 large format wall displays – 18 static and 3 digital – in the city of Detroit, Michigan from Total Outdoor. OUTFRONT is the leading out of home provider in the market. The […]