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Billboard Insider Classifieds February 27, 2021

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Rothfelder On Amortization And The Federal HBA

During the last week, Billboard Insider published a couple articles on related Constitutional clauses. First, Insider reminded us in What the Senate Said About Amortization while cautioning that the regulatory concept had actually been enacted into an ordinance by Wenatchee, Washington last year. Wenatchee and other governmental entities utilize the amortization […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 27% in 4Q 2020

An uptick in Covid cases has taken some of the wind out of Clear Channel Outdoor’s recovery.  Here are the results from the company’s 4th quarter 2020 earnings release and conference call. Total revenue was down 27% to $541 million as an uptick in covid cases delayed the company’s recovery.  […]

Outfront Revenue Down 31% in 4Q 2020

Outfront is recovering slowly from Covid.  Here are the results from the company’s fourth quarter 2020 earnings release and earnings presentation and conference call. Revenues declined by 31% to $336 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.  Billboard revenues were down 13%.  Transit and other revenues (sports marketing and transit) […]

Lamar Increases Dividend By 50 %

From a Lamar Press release: BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.75 per share payable on March […]

Company of the Day: Street Smart Outdoor

Company: Street Smart Outdoor Markets: Rhode Island, Florida Address: 345 Highway 9 South, Manalapan, New Jersey Email: info@streetsmartoutdoor.com Phone: 888-468-1414 Street Smart operates a solar powered bus shelter, bus bench and trashbin plant with over 1,000 locations in Rhode Island and Florida.  Street Smart is a wholly oned subsidiary of […]

Beware Billboard Lease Termination on Sale Clauses

Beware of billboard lease termination clauses which allow the lease to be cancelled on a sale to a third party.    That’s the lesson of International Outdoor versus Dix Road.  Here are the facts. In 1998 the Donald Golden Trust leased property to Rite Media of Michigan for a billboard.  […]

Is San Jose Saying No On Their Digital Plan?

Insider reported back in July 2020 that the City of San Jose was considering allowing up to 90 new digital billboards on private property as well as some smaller signs on public land.  Though the City has had a prohibition of new billboard construction on public and private land, San […]

Morgan Stanley Bullish on Out of Home

Morgan Stanley Media analyst Ben Swinburne was bullish on out of home on a recent Morgan Stanley Thoughts on the Market podcast.  Swinburne’s said this: We have a bullish view of the advertising recovery.  Every datapoint on advertising that we’ve been hearing lately has been positive and we remain of […]

Mobile Digital Billboards Communicate Atlanta Back to School Messages

(ATLANTA, GA – February 19, 2021) – Thousands of students have returned to in-person learning at Atlanta Public Schools (APS) as of February 16th after a long hiatus of virtual learning. To help make this return a little easier, Atlanta-based Zep, Inc. contributed to APS’s comprehensive Return + Learn reopening plan. The program […]