Spearfish, South Dakota is renegotiating three billboard leases with Lamar. Two of the billboards site on city land at 120 Industrial Drive and the third is on city land at Black Hills Energy Sports Complex. The leases were originated 20 years ago and generate $900 in revenue per year. The […]
House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) dropped President Trump’s proposal to “commercialize” the highway right of way by selling concession rights for gas stations and restaurants. Insider connects the dots: The Trump infrastructure plan said states should be allowed to commercialize highway rest stops, converting rest areas to full-service plazas […]
Insider ran a timely article this week from the OAAA on OOH People in Public Office. This week the Tennessee Committee on Government Operations held a Rule Review meeting. Included on the agenda was as request from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to amend their rules related to the […]
Cody J. Riebe, Public Relations & Content Specialist at BillboardsIn Marijuana is a big business. It is now recreationally legal in nine states and medicinally in thirty. It’s estimated that it will be a $21 billion industry by 2021. This is good news for the out-of-home industry. Here at BillboardsIn, […]
If you are driving from Bozeman Montana through the Gallatin Canyon you will most likely only see one billboard in the Beckman Flats area. That billboard belongs to Saunders Outdoor Advertising and they have been in a dispute over that board with Gallatin County since 2009. The Lone Peak Lookout […]
Insider reviewed a permitting dispute between Lamar and Los Angeles County yesterday. Insider wondered whether Lamar took too hard a line. Most readers supported Lamar’s stance. Here are the comments. “I was the GM for Lamar on the entire deal. It’s simplistic and short on facts to imply that after that […]
By Kerry Yoakum Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA Advertising for electronic cigarettes that deliver nicotine via vapor is a growing category for out of home advertising. Effective August 10, ads for e-cigarettes must include a warning that nicotine is addictive. New rules from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) require […]
In June 2017, municipal officials in Carson California declared a “fiscal emergency” after the council approved a budget with a deficit for the eighth time in the last 11 years. Officials warned that without a change in its spending habits, the city might be forced to declare bankruptcy by 2020. […]
By now, most of us have read in Billboard Insider and other publications about the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert, basically holding that regulatory distinctions based on the content of messages displayed on signs violate the First Amendment. But, what about the more fundamental […]
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues as part of the city’s 2019 budget. The tax goes into effect July 1. The tax was passed over the mayors veto with two days public notice and no hearings. You can read more about the tax at WLWT5 […]
