Tag: Link Media

Paul Wright and Carson Frost on Out of Home Values and Who’s Buying What

  Today’s podcast guests – Paul Wright and Carson Frost –  talk about out of home values, who’s buying what, how to conduct a smooth sale and trends to look for during 2020. Paul is the founder of SignValue.com and the Co-author of Billboard Appraisal: The Valuation of Off Premise […]

Max Drachman on 2019 M&A Activity & Beyond

With Kalil & Co. handling the recently closed MH Outdoor, New South transaction, we talked with Max Drachman about the 2019 M&A market and beyond. Max, what trends are you seeing in the M&A market? It has been more of the same for the last few years.  The industry is […]

Link Media Buys Alpha Displays in Missouri

Roswell, GA – October 3, 2019: Link Media Outdoor is pleased to announce the purchase of the outdoor advertising assets of Alpha Displays, Inc., of Bourbon, MO. Alpha was founded in 1997, and has served its customers well for over 20 years. These assets complement Link’s recent acquisition of Waitt […]

Link Media Closes $40 Million Debt Facility

Link Media Outdoor, the out of home subsidiary of Boston Omaha has added $40 million in credit facilities with First National Bank of Omaha to assist with the company’s growth.  Link has borrowed $18.6 million on the facility.  Here’s a summary of the terms. Term Loan 1 Availability of $24.9 […]

Link Media Revenue up with Acquisitions

Boston Omaha reported second quarter 2019 earnings.  Here are the results from the company’s Link Media Holdings out of home subsidiary.  Link Media CEO Jim McLaughlin tells Insider: “Link is performing well on all inventory, but especially the Link legacy inventory (pre Tammy Lynn, Key and Waitt), where revenue increases […]

Boston Omaha Announces 2018 Financial Results

OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Boston Omaha Corporation (BOMN) announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 in connection with filing its Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Boston Omaha is the parent company of Link Media Outdoor. Here is summary financial data […]

Seth Garrett on Out of Home and Real Estate

Seth Garrett is Real Estate Manager at Link Media Outdoor’s corporate office in Roswell, GA.  Prior to joining Link, he worked in the same role at Fairway Outdoor in Atlanta and Athens, GA, following 10 years in commercial real estate development and consulting.  Insider talked to Seth about what it […]

Link Media Announces Tuck-In Asset Purchases

Roswell, GA – February 20, 2019: Link Media Outdoor is pleased to announce the purchase of the outdoor advertising assets of Rainbow Recording Studios in Omaha, NE; Katie Outdoor Advertising in Monmouth, IL and Fairfield, IA; and certain outdoor advertising assets of Knapp Outdoor Displays in Savannah, MO. These three […]

Scott Lafoy on Out of Home Acquisitions

Scott LaFoy has learned a thing or two about buying and selling out of home companies in the course of a 34 year out of home career.  He is in charge of Mergers and Acquisitions for Link Media Outdoor.  Prior to that he was a General Manager for Fairway Outdoor […]

Billboards and Other Businesses

The vast majority of the 525 out of home companies in Insider’s database are independently owned and operated.  When does it make sense for an out of home company to be part of another business?  Here are Insider’s thoughts. A sign company owns billboards  (excellent business case) Examples:  Astro Signs, […]