In 2019, the City of Clovis New Mexico proposed a new sign ordinance which would have significantly impacted several Out of Home operators’ ability to conduct business in the city. Proposed changes to the new ordinance included unconstitutional takings, retroactive legislation, content-based free speech violations as well as compelling immediate […]
Poor record keeping is one of the top OSHA citations each year . Billboard Insider talked with Formetco’s Safety Director Jim Poage to learn what record keeping requirements OSHA expects from out of home companies. What is the OSHA requirement for record keeping? Employers are required to keep accident, illness, […]
Back In May 2020, Insider ran a story on a lawsuit filed in U.S. Court related to the San Francisco Mayoral race. Failed mayoral candidate Ellen Zhou sued Mayor Breed, Clear Channel Outdoor LLC and OUTFRONT Media after the companies took down two of her campaign billboards during the campaign […]
Last week out of home site development expert Andy Goodman discussed 4 misconceptions landowners have about out of home companies. Today he talks about two misconceptions out of home companies have about landlords. What misconceptions do out of home companies have about landlords? That if you give them too much […]
A lease by any other name is still a lease. That’s the lesson of Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co vs the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Here are the facts. In 1979 and 1981, Diana and Lucille Bow, two members of the Calliente Band of the Cahuilla Indians entered into two “operating […]
Today out of home development expert Andy Goodman talks about 4 misconceptions landowners have about out of home. I’m not getting a fair share of revenues Landowners ask me “How can I avoid having the billboard company package my billboard with a number of other properties and not give me […]
Little did I know after enthusiastically bidding good riddance to 2020 in my Billboard Insider article on 2021 OOH legal predictions, there would be a few days later an insurgence at the Capital, followed by a few weeks later a crippling ice storm in my hometown of Houston and throughout […]
Billboard Insider reported in its December 27th edition on the recent decision in StreetMediaGroup and Turnpike Media vs Colorado DOT. This December 6, 2021 opinion from the US District Court for the District of Colorado is extremely important, as it represents the next development in the long running saga of […]
Think you can write a lease with a tribe and be done with it? Not so fast, especially if the tribe hasn’t qualified under the Hearth Act. The Hearth Act is a federal law passed in 2012 which allows Indian tribes to write business leases for a primary term of […]
Out of home development expert Andy Goodman writes for Billboard Insider on development issues. His last column discussed billboards on native american tribe lands. Today he discusses the best way to determine market rent for a billboard lease. So the question here is how do I know that I’m getting […]
