Winnipeg Manitoba is considering a $400-450 annual licensing fee for digital billboards to cover “ongoing costs for monitoring and enforcement or the operation and use of the digital sign over its lifespan.” Insider sees a worrisome trend of cities raising taxes and fees on out of home advertisers. We wrote […]
The federal government is supporting the State of Tennessee’s defense of its billboard law as a constitutional regulation that does not violate free speech. On March 5, the US Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief (amicus) in the case Thomas v. Schroer. You can read the brief here. This gesture […]
A Maryland tax judge has upheld the City of Baltimore’s billboard tax, rejecting a constitutional challenge that free speech could be chilled by singling out one medium while not taxing radio, TV, and newspapers. The tax was imposed to raise revenue, “not on the right to disseminate information, ideas or […]
The State of Wisconsin District IV Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Adams to appeal a court decision dismissing a case against the Dane County Board of Supervisors on the grounds that the supervisors violated state open meetings law during deliberations in which the supervisors denied an extension […]
The high profile digital billboard in the picture is featured on the New York City DOT twitter page. Queens Chronicle reports that a New York assemblywoman want to have a say in whether a digital billboard should exist at an approach to the RFK Triborough Bridge. The assemblywoman claims the […]
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick The Texas Transportation Commission has been holding public hearings, considering comments from stakeholders, and otherwise considering amendments to TxDOT’s administrative rules governing federally assisted highways for the last several months. The primary reason cited by TxDOT for the rules amendments was to make them […]
Insider has previously written about the efforts of two New Haven, CT Alderman to oppose a 10 by 23 digital billboard which has been legally erected at 1057 Whalley Avenue and Emerson Street by Advertex. Make sure you get both your state and local permit is the lesson from this […]
OSHA has a searchable database on accidents and fatalities. Insider sorted the database based on the NAICS code 541850 (outdoor advertising) and the results were encouraging. Accidents and fatalities are trending down. Annual outdoor advertising accidents and fatalities were 1.6 and 0.8, respectively, for the last five years versus a […]
OUTFRONT has deployed 250 smart digital screens in Boston’s transit system. The MBTA is thrilled by the $100 million in revenue generated from the screens. Boston Magazine writes there’s a backlash against the screens by the Massachusetts Preservation Alliance and Friends of the Public Garden who say that screens […]
By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA On February 1, FHWA informed New York State DOT that it would withhold $14 million as penalty for the State’s installation of illegal on-road signs that promote New York State. Kerry Yoakum, an attorney and former state regulator at Ohio […]
