Lamar’s rural billboard plant is recovering fastest from Covid and the company is resuming capital expenditures and acquisitions. Here are the results of Lamar’s fourth quarter 2020 earnings release and conference call. Revenues declined by 7% to $429 million. CEO Sean Reilly said fourth quarter revenues came in better than […]
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LA Planning Commission Opposes Billboard Rules
By Marnie Christine Cody Ware, Attorney, Hamlin Cody Billboard Insider’s post last week (2/19), Los Angeles Considers New Billboard Rules, described proposed rules that would allow relocation and permit conversion from static to digital in “Tier 3” sign districts. At the hearing on 2/25, the Planning Commission voted against “Tier […]
San Jose Says Partially No
A follow up from our February 25th article. The Mercury News had reported that the San Jose City Council was removing from the city’s list of top priorities plans to add new digitals signs allowing private property owners to erect free-standing billboard structures on freeway-facing sites, allowing smaller digital billboards […]
Rate This Ad by Out of Home Creative
Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer recommends how to improve the ad. This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard designer and founder […]
Company of the Day: Sun Outdoor
Company: Sun Outdoor Advertising. Markets: Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington Headquarters: 11221 Pacific Highway SW, Lakewood, WA 98499 Phone: 866-581-3118 Email: info@sunoutdoor.com Sun Outdoor is a family owned business which was started in 1982. The firm’s plant includes billboards in the following communities: Bakersfield, CA Ridgecrest, CA Mohavi, CA Tehachapi, CA Barstow, […]
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 […]