By Matthew Noll, EMC Outdoor Think of a wedding cake – close your eyes and picture it in your mind. It probably has several tiers, each one getting a little bit smaller as you move up – right? It turns out that wedding cake is a pretty good model for […]
Author: John Weller
Company of the Day – Red Rock Outdoor
Company: Red Rock Outdoor Headquarters: 133 West 25th Street, 3rd Floor, New York NY 10001 Market: New York City Phone: 212-404-2758 Email: info@redrockoutdoor.com Red Rock Outdoor is a New York based Out-of-Home company providing a full array of OOH products to the New York Area. Those include: Wallscapes Bulletins Food […]
Rothfelder on how to challenge license fees.
Sometimes you can fight city hall. Richard Rothfelder has written a case study about how Houston out of home companies successfully sued the city to recover $2.5 million in off-premise sign permit fees. Rothfelder’s firm presented the winning arguments for the out of home companies. By Richard Rothfelder City of […]
Tax Reform: Victory for Advertisers in Round One
By Ken Klein, Executive Vice President OAAA The tax reform plan released November 2 did not touch deductibility of advertising, a first-round victory for advertisers. “Great news,” said Dan Jaffe of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). The proposal, which starts in the US House, would lower corporate rates from 35 to […]
NY Judge Sides With Billboard Company On $600K in Fines
The New York Post reports on OTR Media, a New York based Outdoor Advertising company, winning in court on a long standing dispute. From 2008 through 2014, OTR accumulated more than 200 violations from the city’s Building Department and owed in excess of $600,000 in civil penalties. In September 2016 an […]
Industry Can Be Optimistic About New FHWA Director
From Michael St. Clair, Executive Director & Lobbyist, Iowa Outdoor Advertising Association and with permission of the OAAA. On October 25, a US Senate committee approved the nomination of Paul Trombino as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, which oversees billboard controls. Michael St. Clair, lobbyist for the billboard […]
Company of the Day – Quality Outdoor Advertising
Company: Quality Outdoor Advertising, LLC Headquarters: 225 County Road 1291, Cullman, AL 35058 Markets: Quality Outdoor has over 200 billboard locations throughout the North Alabama area. The locations vary in size from 12′ x 24′ side-by-side to 12′ x 50′ locations on local highways to 14′ x 48′ locations on Interstate 65. Phone: 256.734.9030 […]
An Update On iHeart Media Debt Challenges
There were several news items at the end of last week indicating that (maybe) there might be some movement on an iHeart Media debt restructure. Total company debt, as of June 30, stood at almost $20.4 billion, mostly from the 2008 leverage-buyout from two Boston-based private-equity firms. Bain Capital and Thomas […]
London’s Iconic Piccadilly Lights Are Switched Back On
The world-famous Piccadilly Lights were switched back on this week (October 26) after a nine month period of renovation. A spectacular display of colors, which were sponsored by members of the public as part of a fundraising campaign for Barnardo’s, was the first image to appear on the new screen. […]
Regulatory Roundup – October 27th
Revere, MA is setting up a subcommittee to review the city ordinances for billboards. The Revere Journal reports that with a current moratorium on billboards expiring March 5, 2018, the committee hopes to have reviewed and tightened up the current ordinances by that date.The current ordinance allows billboards by special permit […]






















