The Yuma Sun reports that the city of Yuma, Arizona is considering a rewrite of billboard regulations to provide additional requirements regarding the number of signs, lighting, digital signs and replacement of non-conforming signs. There are 165 off-premise signs within Yuma. The signs are located in Light Industrial, Heavy […]
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Company of The Day: BPS Outdoor
Company: BPS Outdoor Markets: Southern Georgia, Northern Florida Headquarters: PO Box 47, 807 West Second Street, Tifton, GA 31794 Phone: (229)382-6060 BPS outdoor owns billboards in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida. The company was started in February 1999. Carl Hutchinson is the firm’s General Manager. Selena McIntyre is the firm’s […]
Sussex County Introduces new Sign Ordinance
Coastal Point reveals that the Sussex County Council introduced a new ordinance to revise the Deleware County’s sign regulations. The County has had a billboard moratorium since September 2015 while the Council reviewed the sign code. Here are some of the key changes: Construction permit fees will be increased from […]
Montana Legislators Want To Debate Digital Signs
Insider has written here and here about the Montana State Transportation Commissions proposal to permit digital signs along state highways. Republican and Democratic legislators in Montana want to debate digital billboards during the next session according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The proposed rules would be trumped by stricter local […]
Vince Miller in Digital Signage Today
Vince Miller of DDI Media has written a nice article in Digital Signage Today called “Digital billboards in the right locations drive big revenue.” Miller mentions that digital signs account for 2% of the company’s faces but generate 10% of the company’s revenue. Here’s why: Digital is flexible. The old […]
Students Compete To Create Billboards
The Sandusky Register reports about a group of fifth grade students at Danbury and Port Clinton who had the opportunity to compete in an OSS Solid Waste District’s Billboard Contest recently. The students had two months to design their own billboard using the theme of recycling or litter prevention. The contest […]
Five Reasons To Be Cautious About Landmark
Insider was asked again this week what he thinks of Landmark Infrastructure. Landmark Infrastructure is a public company which owns 1,456 billboard, tower and wind turbine leases and easements. Landmark has an office or origination person in 24 cities (see graphic below which came from a March 2016 investor […]
Reed V Gilbert Comes to Opelika
The Opelika Observer has written about Rose City Outdoor’s successful challenge to local sign law using Reed v Gilbert as a precedent. Here are the facts. Rose City Outdoor submitted applications for 6 commercial billboards (conventional advertising) and 2 non-commercial billboards (which would run public service messages). All of the […]
Billboards Help Combat Zika Virus
Interesting article in STAT discusses an innovative way of tackling the Zika crisis. Two street side advertising panels in Rio De Janeiro are being used trap and kill the mosquitoes that are the primary driver of the disease. The billboards-cum-death traps rely on some clever science. They emit carbon dioxide and lactic acid […]
Company of the Day: Avaira Signs
Company: Avaira Signs Market: Pennsylvania. Headquarters: 174 Shook Road, Hadley, PA 16130 Phone: 724-253-4576 Avaira Signs is a sign fabricator, a Watchfire electronic message center dealer, large format printer and an outdoor advertising company located in Pennsylvania. The firm has 7 signs in Western Pennsylvania. The company installs, maintains and […]
