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Company of the Day – Fox Outdoor Advertising

Company: Fox Outdoor Markets: North Georgia Headquarters: 6350 Lake Oconee Parkway, Suite 102, PMB 113, Greensboro, GA  30642 Phone: 770-765-2510 Email: sales@foxoutdooradvertising.com Fox Outdoor owns and operate static, tri-vision, and digital billboards in the North Georgia Market including the following areas: Cornelia Baldwin, Toccoa Eastanollee Augusta Martinez In October 2015 Fox […]

Safety Matters

Insider calculates that falls have accounted for 56% of outdoor advertising accidents reported to OSHA over the past 15 years and electrocutions have accounted for 31% of the outdoor advertising accidents reported to OSHA over the past 15 years.  Two news items from last week reinforce the importance of safety […]

Billboard Legend John L. Ray Dies

John L. Ray, a pillar of the billboard industry in West Virginia and surrounding states, died on August 17. He was 94. “John Ray made so many contributions to protecting the outdoor advertising industry over the past 75 years,” said Wade Leslie, president of West Virginia Outdoor based in Charleston. […]

Company of the Day: Foster Interstate

Company: Foster Interstate Media Markets: Illinois, San Francisco Headquarters: 1111 Broadway, Suite 1515, Oakland, CA  94607 Phone: 510-832-7070 Email: outdoor@fosterinterstate.com Chicago Digital Sign Foster Interstate Media was started in the mid-1990’s and has designed, built and operated numerous high profile wallscapes and displays in California and Illinois.  The company’s major projects have included: Construction and operation […]

Out of the Office: Chris Quirin

Chris Quirin is a managing partner of Charter Digital Media.  Chris likes to golf: “I like to walk 9 holes of golf early.  Let’s me enjoy golf, get exercise and start the day with a good attitude.”  Here’s a picture of Chris on the Eisenhower Park course on Long Island. […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds August 18, 2018

“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.  […]

Solar Billboard Picture Tutorial

Earlier this week solar powered billboard expert Kevin Conlin discussed the state of the art in solar powered billboards.  Today Kevin continues his discussion using pictures to illustrate his points. Areas of the country with cloudy winters require a larger solar array to compensate, such at this 3160W array in […]

Company of the Day: Fluhman Outdoor

Company: Fluhman Outdoor Media LLC Markets: West Texas, Southeastern New Mexico Headquarters:  505 South Arthur Street, Amarillo, TX  79102 Phone: 806-678-7778 Email: bruce@fluhmanoutdoor.net Fluhman Outdoor Media (FOM) began in the summer of 2013, and in just five years has grown to over 400 billboards in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. […]

Huntington Outdoor builds 400th billboard face.

Huntington Outdoor just celebrated the construction of its 400 billboard face.  Insider is impressed by what Justin Powell has accomplished and also by how Huntington used the announcement to generate additional advertising business.  Are you celebrating your accomplishments?  Here’s Huntington’s press release.   We are very excited to announce that we […]

New and Noted August 16, 2018

Last week Insider talked about non-profits as a revenue source. Wisconsin non-profit “Be Amazing” has purchased 5 Lamar billboards in Wausau, Wisconsin to spread the word about the group. Out of home executive Arthur Donaldson, Sr. died earlier this month.  Donaldson entered the out of home business in 1956.  He founded […]