Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

Visit Annapolis Dominates BWI Airport

Baltimore, MD — Clear Channel Outdoor, Airports Division, the Americas-based airports business of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), today announced a new partnership and sponsorship with Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County (VAAAC), a nonprofit Destination Marketing/Management Organization whose mission is to foster a welcoming destination and promote tourism on […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Billboards Help Locate Missing Person

San Antonio, Texas – l’yanna Lee, missing since March 22 of this year, was located the week of June 10, and reunited with her family as a result of the National Missing Children’s Day program sponsored by the San Antonio Police Department, Clear Channel Outdoor, Texas Center for the Missing […]

Clear Channel Outdoor May Sell British Assets to Clairvest

Sky News reports that Clear Channel Outdoor is close to selling its British assets to Clairvest.  The British inventory includes 2,000 sites across Greater London.  Sky News quoted an industry source as saying the price would be several hundred million pounds and the pound is currently trading at $1.25 so […]

David Sailer: Clear Channel Outdoor is a GDP Plus Business

Here’s a selection of Clear Channel CFO David Sailer’s comments at the TD Cowen Tech, Media and Telecom Conference yesterday. Problems in San Francisco I mean everyone was watching the news.  It wasn’t good and our shelter business is in the city center and that really hurt us.  It was […]

Tis the Season to Sell Political

Political advertising season is in full swing.  Here’s what Billboard Insider heard about about political advertising in this month’s earnings calls and investor meetings. OAAA President and CEO Anna Bager says out of home is trusted and can help get out the vote (May 23, 2024 Beet.tv interview). We think […]

David Sailer: Selling a US Asset is Probably Not the Best Course of Action

Here are the highlights of Clear Channel CFO David Sailer’s comments at this week’s 52nd annual  JP Morgan 2024 Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference. Clear Channel Outdoor adding account executives Coming out of COVID we were obviously you know very tough on expenses you know revenue was down and […]

Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2024 Revenue up 10%

North American billboards are decent, airports is booming and Europe North is recovering and for sale is how you could summarize Clear Channel Outdoor’s 2024 first quarter.  Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2024 earnings release, earnings presentation and conference call. Consolidated revenue increased 10% to […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Celebrates Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May kicks off Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, which celebrates the contributions that generations of AAPIs have made to American history, society, and culture. One of the fastest-growing groups of people in the U.S., our country’s community of AAPIs contains multitudes, made up of 24 million Americans, […]

Who’s Who on the Public Out of Home Boards

Here’s a list of the non-executive board directors for Lamar, OUTFRONT and Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor and OUTFRONT pay more to directors than Lamar. Two Clear Channel directors (Jinhy Yoon and Ted White) work for free.  Yoon is a credit analyst at Pimco Investment Management and is barred […]

Debt Costs and Leverage Stable at Public OOH Companies

Here are two tables, prepared by Moorgate Capital Partners, which calculate the weighted average cost of debt and leverage (net debt/adjusted cashflow) for the public out of home companies as of December 2023.  Some observations: No surprise that the cost of debt goes up as leverage goes up.  Clear Channel […]