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Outdoor Legal: Not Removing A Billboard At Lease Expiry Is Trespass

Did you know that it’s trespass to fail to remove a billboard when your lease expires?  That’s the point of Loukas v Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor leased a billboard in Chicago from Loukas, Inc from 1990 to 2012. In 2012 the lease expired. Clear Channel Outoor refused to […]

AZ billboard bill supported by city.

Havasu News notes that Bullhead City, Arizona is in favor of Arizona state legislation which would permit more digital billboards in Arizona.  SB 1114  would allow for digital sign along parts of Interstate 40 (to Kingman), Highway 68 (to Laughlin), Highway 95 (Needles to Bullhead City) and Highway 93 (to […]

Company of the Day: Connell Outdoor

Company:  Connell Outdoor Market: Las Vegas Headquarters: 5242 Swenson Street, Las Vegas, NV  89119 Phone: 792-795-0555 Connell Outdoor has billboard locations in tourist and local corridors in Las Vegas.In addition to its billboard operation in Las Vegas, Connell Outdoor has a sister company, Shore Sign Service located in Atlantic City, […]

Paths To The Out of Home Advertising Industry

  What should you do if you want to own your own out of home advertising firm?  Work for an out of home advertising company or a sign company.  Insider tabulated the results from 50 Company of The Day articles. How People Entered The Out of Home Advertising Business Almost […]

PA court orders digital billboard down.

On April 3, 2017  a Pennsylvania Court ruled that Kegerreis Outdoor Advertising must take down a 57 foot high digital billboard at the interchange of Interstate 83 and 283 because it is too close to the road. Here are links to a Pennlive article and Kegerreis v Department of Transportation. […]

The Billboard Survives

  Thanks to Sara Fischer, Media Reporter for Axios for allowing us to reprint her recent post.  Unlike other traditional advertising platforms like magazines and newspapers, out-of-home advertising such as billboards and subway posters grew almost 7% last year, mostly due to the rapid conversion of static ad spaces to […]

Company of the Day – Cooper Outdoor

Company: Cooper Outdoor  Markets: Texas, Southern Coast, Southeast of San Antonio. Headquarters:  115 Waco, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 Phone:  361-882-3088 Email: coopersales@cooperoutdoor.com Cooper Outdoor is a locally owned and operated family business which was founded in 1981.  The company has 500 billboard locations in Aransas County, Bee County, Jim Wells […]

Outdoor Valuations Increase in 1Q 2017

Outdoor advertising valuations increased during the first quarter of 2017 as you can see from the following chart. The revenue multiple for the four public out of home companies increased from 3.6 times at December 2016 to 3.8 times at March 2017. The cashflow multiple for the four public companies […]

Burr Smith Tells Sixteen:Nine Why Broadsign Sued T-Rex

Dave Haynes did a terrific interview with Broadsign CEO Burr Smith on the Sixteen:Nine Podcast.  T-Rex has been suing out of home advertising companies who use a computer to control digital billboards for patent infringement and last June 2016 Broadsign countersued to contest the patents.   At 15:30 of the podcast Smith […]

Update From Geopath on MORE

By Kym Frank, President, Geopath We at Geopath have been busy! The development of our new state-of-the-art measurement and insights platform kicked off in January. We wanted to take a breath and update everyone that the project is 100% on track – and that we are on schedule to deliver […]