Many out of home leases require lease payments annually in advance. Is prepaid rent recoverable if a lease terminates early? Not unless you have a refund clause. That’s the lesson of Eujoy Realty v Wagner Communications. Here are the facts: In 2000 Van Wagner Outdoor signed a 15 year lease […]
Company: Crossroads Outdoor Headquarters: 2487 South Michigan Road, Suite E, Eaton Rapids, MI 48827 Market: Michigan Phone: 231.683.4224 Email: info@crossroadsoutdoor.com Crossroads Outdoor has billboards throughout Michigan and covers, or at least has a presence in 25 counties including the Grand Rapids Demographic Marketing Area (DMA), Traverse City DMA and Flint DMA. Some of the […]
Nick Coston is an Out Of Home Consultant and Media Buyer with 20 years experience in the out of home industry. Nick is also contributes to Billboard Insider. Today Nick gives his impressions of the 2017 Digital Signage Expo. This was my second trip to the Digital Signage Expo, held […]
Insider learned this week that Oncor Electric Delivery Company has filed an Application for Authority to Change Rates with the Public Utility Commission of Texas. The overall rate increase is 7.5%. Insider has been told, however, that the rate which impacts billboard companies (Primary DL<=10kW) will go up by […]
Company: Cuerden Sign Co Markets: Arkansas Headquarters: PO Box 187 Conway, AR 72032-0187 Phone: 501-329-6317 Email: cuerden@swbell.net Cuerden Sign Company was founded in 1920 by Henry Cuerden. The firm originally painted signs. Over time it entered the neon sign and billboard business. The firm is owned and operated by […]
Company: CRG Advertising, LLC Market: Connecticut Phone: 860-961-4818 CRG Advertising operates 2 digital faces and 9 static faces in Connecticut. The signs range in size from 10.5 by 22 to 14 by 60. The firm was founded in April 2009 by Charlie Ghione after stints as an outdoor exec […]
FBI headquarters provided this update to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA): “Fugitive Demeko Wells was featured on digital billboards in the Tampa, FL, area. The pressure created by the billboards influenced Wells to turn himself in the day after the billboards were posted. “After turning himself in, Wells […]
Company: Couch Advertising Company Markets: Georgia, Alabama Headquarters: 194 Pine Road, NW, Resaca, GA 30735 Phone: 706-346-5356 Couch Advertising was founded on July 28, 2003 by owner and operator Johnny Couch the former manager/Vice President of Lamar’s Rome GA plant. The company was started as an ad agency and then […]
“I wanted to let you know that an electrician responded to our ad and we sent him out for his first job last week…Thanks so very much.” Ellen Polansky, JGI Outdoor. Billboard Insider Classifieds work. Our classified cost $60 for 3 months or $120 for 12 months. To self-place your […]
Did you know that it’s trespass to fail to remove a billboard when your lease expires? That’s the point of Loukas v Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor leased a billboard in Chicago from Loukas, Inc from 1990 to 2012. In 2012 the lease expired. Clear Channel Outoor refused to […]
