Tag: ken klein

What to Watch for in the Election: More Legal Cannabis

By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Voters in five states will decide whether to legalize medical and-or recreational marijuana. Here is context: Red, blue, and purple states are voting on cannabis: Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota.  Marijuana is migrating to the mainstream, already legal […]

Bright Idea: Out of Home Converts to Better Lighting

By Ken Klein, EVP – Government Affairs, OAAA Out of home media is completing a basic but meaningful step for sustainability:  switching its light bulbs. Nationwide, this practical step means: Improved energy efficiency and less energy load, requiring less energy generation Better lens technology that reduces light “spillage” Fewer maintenance […]

Texas Man Charged With $5M Pandemic Relief Fraud

In this weeks Podcast, part of the discussion centered around the potential for fraud in the Payroll Protection loan program. Ken Klein passed along this news article as a followup to that discussion. Law 360 posted this week that a Texas man fraudulently tried to score over $5 million in […]

Ken Klein on the OAAA’s Government Focus Post-Covid

On this week’s Billboard Insider Podcast Ken Klein, the OAAA’s EVP Government Affairs, talked about how the OAAA is representing the industry post-covid. In addition to the Paycheck Protection help, and in addition to the individual checks that have arrived to many out of home workers, Congress is looking into […]

Ken Klein on Getting the Next Generation Involved with Out of Home.

People ask Insider “How do we get young people interested in out of home?” Ken Klein, EVP Government Affairs at the OAAA shows us how.  Insider talked with Klein this week. I hear you’re on an advisory board of your Alma Mater. I am involved with my college; I’m on […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Billboard Insider

We’re taking tomorrow off for Thanksgiving.  Billboard Insider has lots to be thankful for: To Outfront Media Real Estate rep Shelli Bergren for being Billboard Insider’s first newsletter subscriber. To Midwood Signs Ron Guercio for being Billboard Insider’s most recent and 2,520th newsletter subscriber. To OAAA President and CEO Anna […]

Ken Klein Update on The Thomas Case

OAAA SVP Ken Klein summarized the issues surrounding Bill Thomas’ challenge to Tennessee’s state billboard rules at last week’s IBOUSA convention in Memphis. Here’s a summary of the discussion. Why did the plaintiff (billboard builder Bill Thomas of Tennessee) succeed in court? A federal judge in Memphis and recently a […]

Top 5 Quotes From the IBOUSA Show

Here are Insider’s top 5 quotes from the Independent Billboard Operators fall show which concludes today. Daktronics Lighting Expert Eric Johnson on the importance of  lighting studies More and more regulatory authorities are requiring a lighting analysis for digital sign permitting.  I was getting 1 request a month a year […]

Ken Klein at IBOUSA: Trends that impact OOH

Here is a re-cap of OAAA EVP Ken Klein’s presentation to independent billboard operators (IBOUSA) in Savannah on May 9. First Amendment First Amendment free speech protections knocked out San Francisco’s mandated warning label on ads for sugary drinks and Cincinnati’s targeted tax on billboards (that case is on appeal […]

Traffic Safety: Government Communicates via OOH

Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs The Pennsylvania Turnpike pleads with drivers to focus on the road, not cell phones (Focus is Key). It delivers that message on billboards. The PA Turnpike campaign (tagline: “Delete the Distractions”) is the latest example of billboards as safety messengers. For decades, […]