Tag: digital billboard

Watchfire Retiring 12 year old Digital Billboard.

If you’ve ever visited Watchfire’s Danville headquarters you’ve seen this 14 by 48 billboard. Still looks great.  It’s a 19mm model which is 12 years old.  Watchfire will replace it with a new 16 mm billboard later this summer along with new internal components and wiring.  The original structure and […]

New Tradition inks lease for 46 story digital billboard at One Times Square

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One of the country’s leading out-of-home advertising firms, New Tradition, has signed a master lease agreement for the new digital signage currently being built at One Times Square, the internationally-recognizable tower located in the center of Times Square. The property’s owner, Jamestown, announced the deal today. As the master signage […]

Digital Billboard Fight in Braintree MASS

The Boston Globe reports that Tom Sullivan (Lumber Liquidators and Cabinents to Go) and RJ Valentine (MBA Umbrella group) are fighting over the right to install a digital billboard on I-93 in Braintree, Massachusetts.  There’s a 1,000 foot setback between digital billboards in Boston so there will only be one […]

Know The Regs Before You Build

The Denver Post and 16:9 have written about a welcome sign/digital billboard on Pena Boulevard as you exit the Denver Airport.  Panasonic is the sign manufacturer.  The $14.5 million cost of the sign was to have been recovered by advertising.  the problem was that nobody at the airport did the […]

How Daktronics built a 146′ wide curved digital billboard.

  In October 2017 Daktronics completed the installation of a massive new curved digital billboard at London’s Piccadilly circus.  The display is 17.6 meters high and 44.6 meters wide (that’s 57 feet by 146 feet).  The sign curves around the corner of the building and can show a large piece of […]

New Digital Billboard in Meriden, CT

Insider has edited a previous version of this article to correct some errors.  The sign which is the subject of the article is on private land, not on city land and was not subject to any local disputes. myrecordjournal has an article about a new Meriden, CT digital billboard constructed […]

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. […]