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More on digital billboards and cellular antennas

On Wednesday we posted John Barrett’s thoughts on whether cellular antennas can interfere with digital billboards and vice versa.  Joni Schmeichel of Daktronics tells Insider this: Daktronics digital billboards are designed with EMI in mind and tested in our own EMI chamber in Brookings, SD. Once a product design is […]

Company of the Day: Outdoor Displays

Company: Outdoor Displays, Inc.  Market: East Tennessee Headquarters: 6165 Primus Rd., Knoxville, TN  37912 Phone:  (865) 357-9077 Email:  info@outdoordisplaysinc.com Outdoor Displays owns billboards in Eastern Tennessee.  The firm was founded in 2007 and is owned and operated by Dan, Danny and Russell Amanns, lifetime residents of Knoxville, Tennessee.  Tracy Emmons is the firm’s […]

Sean Reilly on Fairway, Automotive and Digital Signs

Lamar CEO Sean Reilly had plenty to say about the Fairway integration, digital signs and Lamar’s renewed focus on auto dealers on yesterday’s earnings conference call. On integrating the Fairway assets  purchased in December 2018: The integration of Fairway is going very very well.  Typically the low hanging fruit is […]

Lamar revenue up 7% in 4Q 2018

“I’m very pleased with the way we closed out 2018.  Q4 organic growth was 5.6% – a number we haven’t seen in some time.” was how Sean Reilly summarized Lamar’s 4Q financials.  Here are the results from the fourth quarter 2018 earnings release and conference call. Revenues grew 7% to […]

Link Media Announces Tuck-In Asset Purchases

Roswell, GA – February 20, 2019: Link Media Outdoor is pleased to announce the purchase of the outdoor advertising assets of Rainbow Recording Studios in Omaha, NE; Katie Outdoor Advertising in Monmouth, IL and Fairfield, IA; and certain outdoor advertising assets of Knapp Outdoor Displays in Savannah, MO. These three […]

Company of the Day – Outdoor One

Company: Outdoor One Headquarters:  3636 E. U.S. Highway 12 Michigan City, IN 46360 Markets: Northern Indiana & Southwest Michigan Phone: (800) 993-3476 Email: OutdoorOne@Yahoo.Com OUTDOOR ONE® Billboard Advertising has been serving Northern Indiana & Southwest Michigan for over 20 years. All of their Billboards are located along heavily traveled highways and situated […]

Vendor Profile: Blip Billboards

Company: Blip Billboards Headquarters:  1591 W 820 N, Provo, UT  64601 Phone:  801-692-3217 Email:  contact@blipbillboards.com Blip operates an online marketplace for digital billboard space.  The company’s approach differs from many online marketplaces in that it does not require a contract and allows advertisers to buy ads in single display increments. […]

John Barrett on Cellular Antennas and Digital Billboards

A reader asks if digital billboards interfere with cellular antennas or vice-versa.  This is a timely question because out of home companies are trying to generate new revenue by installing wireless antennas on billboards.  Insider asked Barrett Outdoor’s John Barrett who has deployed wireless antennas on several billboard structures what he thinks […]

Watchfire Elevates Weninger and Dines

DANVILLE, Ill. — (February 19, 2019) — Watchfire Signs, a leading manufacturer of outdoor LED signs, digital billboards and video scoreboards, has elevated two employees in its top level leadership team. Kim Weninger was named chief operating officer and Kyle Dines was promoted to vice president of sports and indoor. Click to […]

Company of the Day: Orlando Outdoor

Company:  Orlando Outdoor LLC Markets: Florida Address: 2019 Meeting Place, Orlando, FL  32814 Phone: 877-314-4567 Email: ryan@orlandooutdoor.com Orlando Outdoor operates an out of home plant with 31 digital billboard locations around Orlando.  In addition the company operates a taxi top advertising business.  Ryan Deming is the firm’s President. [wpforms id=”9787″] […]