Author: John Weller

OUTFRONT Media Acquires Canadian Digital Billboard Portfolio

NEW YORK, June 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) announced today that it has acquired a leading portfolio of digital billboards in Canada with locations in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. The transaction is structured as an acquisition of the equity interests of certain subsidiaries of […]

Company of the Day – Headrick Outdoor Media

Company: Headrick Outdoor MediaHeadquarters: One Freedom Square, Laurel MS 39440Markets:  Idaho Utah Kansas Iowa Oklahoma Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama North & South Carolina Phone: 601.649.1977Email:   sales@headricks.com The Headrick Companies started from very humble beginnings designing, fabricating, and installing signs in a small back yard shop in 1927. Mr. .A. B. […]

Company of the Day – Hicks Outdoor Advertising

Company: Hicks Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 102 Racer Drive,  Cross Lanes, WV 25313 Markets: West Virginia Phone: 304.482.9300 Email:   greg@HicksOutdoor.com Hicks Outdoors Advertising is owned and operated by Gregory Hicks Enterprises Inc..  The company owns and operates 101 bulletins in 30 different locations  predominantly comprised of standard sizes 14′ x 48′, […]

“I Am Trenton” Billboard Campaign

The I Am Trenton Community Foundation was founded with the understanding that each and every individual who lives, works, learns or plays in Trenton can contribute to the city. The Foundation has recently rolled out a billboard campaign promoting that theme. The billboards  features 17 of the city’s “changemakers,” who are […]

Student Winners Announced for 6th Annual Project Yellow Light

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Ad Council and Project Yellow Light announced the winners of the sixth annual Project Yellow Light scholarship competition. The contest calls on students to create a billboard, radio or video PSA (public […]

iHeartCommunications, Inc. Announces Extension of Private Offers

June 08, 2017 06:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iHeartCommunications, Inc. (“iHeartCommunications”) today announced that it is extending the private offers (the “Exchange Offers”) to holders of certain series of iHeartCommunications’ outstanding debt securities (the “Existing Notes”) to exchange the Existing Notes for new securities (the “New Securities”) of […]

Company of the Day – Grace Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Grace Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 1201 Lincoln Street, Suite 300, Columbia SC 29201Markets: South & North Carolina, Atlanta & MemphisPhone: 803.252.7084Email:   hal@graceoutdoor.com, diana@graceoutdoor.com Grace Outdoor Advertising has been operating in the Columbia area for over 30 years. Their offices are located in the historic Congaree Vista where they have been for 20 years. […]

Foare Scholarship Winners Announced and More $$$ Available

Elias Flores, who is studying city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, and Mollie Picha, who is studying community and regional planning at the University of Texas at Austin, have been selected to receive the 2017-2018 Reagan Family Scholarship Endowment. The Reagan Family Scholarship Endowment was established with […]

Bombs, Bullets and Government Seizure

Prologue by Nancy Fletcher, OAAA President & CEO : Antonio Vincenti is the former chairman of FEPE, the international OOH organization which convenes in Stockholm this week (OAAA Chairman Sean Reilly and I will speak there). By sharing his story, Antonio gives us perspective. We all have problems, but Antonio has faced […]