Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

CCO Appoints New EVP Replacing Brian Coleman, Reaffirms Guidance

David Sailer to Assume Role effective March 1, 2024 Brian Coleman to Transition to Consultant Role Focused on Strengthening Company’s Balance Sheet Company Reaffirms Guidance for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year of 2023 SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) (the “Company”) today announced that David Sailer, currently the Executive […]

Clear Channel Outdoor – What Might Have Been Is Not What Is

  Clear Channel Outdoor stock finished at $1.66 Friday, down from $10.59 ten years ago.  Over the past decade almost everything that could go wrong did.  Bad ownership.  Bad overseas assets.  No one watching expenses.  Covid. iHeart’s looting One of the first things that you’ll notice is that revenues and […]

Public OOH Company M&A Activity Down

Moorgate Capital Partners has compiled an interesting table showing the public OOH company M&A activity from 2019 to 2023.  Some Billboard Insider observations. Acquisitions have slowed dramatically at the public out of home companies.  They closed only $163 million in acquisitions during the first 9 months of 2023, down from […]

Moreno Led Group Buys More Clear Channel Outdoor Stock

Out of home investor Arte Moreno has purchased 14 million more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor stock according to a schedule 13D’s filed with the SEC.  As of yesterday the group owned 10.6% of Clear Channel Outdoor’s common stock with a total investment value of $76 million based on yesterdays […]

Debt Costs Up for Out of Home Companies

Moorgate Capital Partners has analyzed out of home leverage and cost of debt trends thru September 2023.  Some chart’s in Moorgate’s report caught Billboard Insider’s eye.  Weighted average debt costs have increased at the public out of home companies over the past two years although the rise has slowed during […]

Scott Wells Will Be Glad to See Interest Rates Fall

Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells appeared at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit this week.  A selection of his comments. Clear Channel’s San Francisco market is showing signs of life The end of summer was not particularly robust but people are spending now. I think that the completion of the […]

CCO Execs say Iconic Boards and Airports are Strong

Clear Channel Outdoor CFO Brian Coleman and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CFO David Sailer appeared at the Bank of America Leveraged Securities Finance Conference this week.  Some of their remarks: Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CFO David Sailer on Clear Channel Outdoor’s US business I’d say the first priority is to […]

Clear Channel Promotes Minority Student Opportunities

WASHINGTON, DC – November 27, 2023 – Today, Student Freedom Initiative announced a long-term strategic partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor to engage HBCU students through Clear Channel’s internship program where they can gain real-world experience in the marketing and advertising industry and build career readiness skills. This partnership will be further supported […]

Rate this Ad by Wes Frick

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is provided by […]

Public OOH Companies Trading at 12X Cashflow

Billboard Insider enjoys reading the Media Monthly report from Solomon Partners.  Here’s a snapshot from the Solomon Partners Media Monthly November 2023 report showing how the market is valuing each public out of home company as a multiple of cashflow. The public out of home companies have a median total […]