IBO has scheduled it’s Fall Conference for September 22-24 at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh. As usual, Chris Cowlbeck and his staff at IBO have planned a fun and educational agenda, all live and in person, but with appropriate health and safety precautions. Included among the exciting evening events […]
Kentucky’s new billboard regulations are unconstitutional because they deem billboards as “noncompliant” if they were built during a multi-month period when Kentucky had “no lawful regulatory scheme,” claims a federal lawsuit filed by four out of home media companies. Kentucky’s new regulations “classify signs as ‘noncompliant’ based solely on the […]
Lots of parties have filed briefs in the Supreme Court’s review of the Austin v Reagan case. Austin wants the Supreme Court to throw out an Appeals Court ruling invalidating Austin’s sign code because it had one set of rules for on-premise digital signs and another set for off premise […]
Billboard Insider has previously reported that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of the City of Austin to Reagan National’s and Lamar Outdoor’s successful First Amendment challenge to the on-premise/off-premise distinction in the Austin Sign Code. More specifically, in Reagan and Lamar vs Austin, the United States […]
Steve Richards is the President & Partner at Mile High Outdoor & Pacific Outdoor and Chair of the OAAA Legislative Committee Three states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws: California, Virginia, and now Colorado. Steve Richards of Mile High Outdoor + Pacific Outdoor wanted to know more about the impact of privacy laws on his […]
The San Jose airport has completed an environmental review of a project to install digital billboards billboards on the north and south approaches to the airport on US Route 101. The signs will be 60 feet above the ground and incorporate a non-illuminated San Jose Airport logo 9’5″ by 8′. […]
By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs A sucker for lighthouses, I just visited one in Cambridge, MD, where the Choptank River meets Chesapeake Bay. Local boosters/history buffs note (inside the lighthouse) that watermen doubled as rumrunners during Prohibition. Prohibition (1920-1933), with its pervasive disrespect for law, didn’t […]
Once again, a controversial and national judicial ruling will effect billboard law. This time, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas Andrew Hanen issued on July 16, 2021 an injunction against the enforcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA. In the […]
By Andy Goodman, Age Advertising. Here are the five parts of a sign code I look at when determining the feasibility of a site for placement of an out of home structure. The first part of the sign code I look at is the section that talks about prohibited […]
By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA Last week a Democratic Congressman from New England wanted to amend the Highway Beautification Act (HB) to prohibit vegetation control for billboard visibility. The OAAA helped block the amendment. This week the same amendment was refiled by Republicans Nancy Mace of […]
