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Billboard Insider Classifieds February 23, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Brad Thomas on Outfront and Recession

Brad Thomas writes for Seeking Alpha where he specializes in publicly-listed REITs. In addition, Thomas is the Editor of the Forbes Real Estate Investor, a monthly subscription-based newsletter. Insider has followed Brad for some time and his take on OOH REITs is thoughtful and always worth a read.  Here is his take […]

Bob Pittman: Operating an ooh company with a radio group “hurt us”

Operating an out of home company with a radio group “hurt us” says iHeart’s CEO Bob Pittman on this week’s AdAge Podcast.  Here’s how the conversation went Where does spinning off out of home fit in to this? We love the outdoor business as well as the audio business.  The […]

Branded Cities Acquires Chicago Billboard From Red Star Outdoor

New York, NY– February 21, 2019 – Branded Cities (“BC”), a premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company in North America, today announced the acquisition of a Lincoln Park neighborhood spectacular of Red Star Outdoor, further increasing its footprint in the Chicago market. The all-cash deal for the sign located at […]

Company of the Day: Outdoor Displays

Company: Outdoor Displays, Inc.  Market: East Tennessee Headquarters: 6165 Primus Rd., Knoxville, TN  37912 Phone:  (865) 357-9077 Email:  info@outdoordisplaysinc.com Outdoor Displays owns billboards in Eastern Tennessee.  The firm was founded in 2007 and is owned and operated by Dan, Danny and Russell Amanns, lifetime residents of Knoxville, Tennessee.  Tracy Emmons is the firm’s […]

Sean Reilly on Fairway, Automotive and Digital Signs

Lamar CEO Sean Reilly had plenty to say about the Fairway integration, digital signs and Lamar’s renewed focus on auto dealers on yesterday’s earnings conference call. On integrating the Fairway assets  purchased in December 2018: The integration of Fairway is going very very well.  Typically the low hanging fruit is […]

Link Media Announces Tuck-In Asset Purchases

Roswell, GA – February 20, 2019: Link Media Outdoor is pleased to announce the purchase of the outdoor advertising assets of Rainbow Recording Studios in Omaha, NE; Katie Outdoor Advertising in Monmouth, IL and Fairfield, IA; and certain outdoor advertising assets of Knapp Outdoor Displays in Savannah, MO. These three […]

Company of the Day – Outdoor One

Company: Outdoor One Headquarters:  3636 E. U.S. Highway 12 Michigan City, IN 46360 Markets: Northern Indiana & Southwest Michigan Phone: (800) 993-3476 Email: OutdoorOne@Yahoo.Com OUTDOOR ONE® Billboard Advertising has been serving Northern Indiana & Southwest Michigan for over 20 years. All of their Billboards are located along heavily traveled highways and situated […]

Company of the Day: Orlando Outdoor

Company:  Orlando Outdoor LLC Markets: Florida Address: 2019 Meeting Place, Orlando, FL  32814 Phone: 877-314-4567 Email: ryan@orlandooutdoor.com Orlando Outdoor operates an out of home plant with 31 digital billboard locations around Orlando.  In addition the company operates a taxi top advertising business.  Ryan Deming is the firm’s President. [wpforms id=”9787″] […]

Scenic America’s Budget

Insider thought you might want to see the financials for Scenic America, the anti-billboard non-profit.  He gleaned these facts from reviewing Scenic America’s 990 for the years ended March 2016 and March 2017.  The figures below are for Scenic America’s national organization, not for the individual state chapters. Financial Statements […]