Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

SignValue’s Clear Channel Outdoor at a Glance – September 2023

SignValue has prepared the following analysis of Clear Channel Outdoor’s 3rd Quarter 2023 financials.     If you have questions contact Paul Wright, CEO, SignValue, paul@signvalue.com, 480-657-8400.   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with the word “Subscribe” in the title.  Our newsletter is free […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Consolidated Revenue Up 2.7% in 3Q 23

Clear Channel Outdoor third quarter 2023 results can be summarized as US billboards down, everything else up.  Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 3Q 23 earnings release, Clear Channel Outdoor 3Q 23 investor presentation and conference call. Consolidated third quarter revenue grew 2.7% to $517 million.  US […]

Clear Channel Announces Strategy for Selling Europe-North Business

Clear Channel Outdoor closed the sale of its business in France and retained investment bankers Moelis and Co and Deutsche Bank Securities to assist it in selling Europe North (e.g. UK and Scandinavia).  It will also conduct a strategic review of the Latin American business (Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru), investor […]

Not Pretty for OOH Stocks

Not a pretty picture for out of home stocks.  All the public out of home companies failed to beat the market during the past three months due to fears about a recession impacting ad spending.  The S&P 500 declined 10%.    Lamar was off 17%, Boston Omaha down 27%, Clear […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Signs Agreement to Sell French OOH Operation

Clear Channel Outdoor has signed an agreement to sell its French out of home assets to Equinox Industries.  Clear Channel Outdoor’s french business has 800 employees and annual revenues of  $258 million equivalent in US dollars.  The sale price is $76 million equivalent in US dollars including the $32 million […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Reluctant to Sell US Assets

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings CFO Brian Coleman and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CFO David Sailer appeared at last week’s Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance conference.  Some of their comments. A sale of France and Spain is in the works but there are hurdles We have started to get some traction in […]

Class Action Firms Want to Sue Clear Channel Over SEC Fine

It’s one of the drawbacks of being a public company.  You get sued on ever surprise announcement of bad news.  The class action legal firms are circling Clear Channel Outdoor after last week’s surprise announcement of a $26 million SEC fine that shaved 3% off the stock.  See release below… […]

Clear Channel Stock Up, Lamar and OUTFRONT Down in 3Q 23

  Clear Channel Stock increased 14% during the third quarter of 2023 versus a 1.5% decline for the S&P 500.  An investor group which includes Artie Moreno, SunChase (e.g William Pope) and Verde (think Ernie Garcia) bought more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor during the quarter.  At 9/28/23 their investment […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Pays $26 million to SEC to Resolve China Bribery Charges

Washington D.C., Sept. 28, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve charges that it bribed Chinese government officials to obtain outdoor advertising contracts in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The […]

Clear Channel and Westin Las Vegas Run OOH Spectaculars

  New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest Out-of-Home (OOH) media providers, today announced it has partnered with the Westin Las Vegas Hotel & Spa to provide brands with three larger than life out of home (OOH) spectaculars to capture the attention of […]