Know your opposition. Here’s Scenic America’s budget for fiscal 2019-2023. We took the numbers from Scenic America’s recent form 990. Revenues increased 7% to $1.3 million in 2022. Expenses increased by 9% to $1.3 for 2022. Scenic has 8 staff members. Cash balances have declined over the past two years […]
Know your opposition. Here’s Scenic America’s budget for the past five fiscal years. We’ve updated the table based on Scenic America’s 2021 Form 990 for the year ended March 2021. Revenues increased 23% to $1.0 million for the year ended March 2021. Expenses increased by 20% to $967,000 for the […]
The Scenic America website has a link to a 2011 study by a University of Pennsylvania researcher Jonathan Snyder which found that in Philadelphia, billboards had an adverse impact on the value of homes nearby. Billboard Insider has seen references to this study by city planners who are anti-billboard. Correlation […]
Lots of parties have filed briefs in the Supreme Court’s review of the Austin v Reagan case. Austin wants the Supreme Court to throw out an Appeals Court ruling invalidating Austin’s sign code because it had one set of rules for on-premise digital signs and another set for off premise […]
Know your opposition. Here’s the budget for Scenic America, the anti-billboard non-profit. Insider assembled the figures based on Scenic’s IRS 990 forms. Revenues increased 1.5% to $815,000 for the year ended March 2020. The net surplus declined from $65,094 during 2019 to 11,246 during 2020 due to increased expenses. Scenic President Mark […]
The Scenic America blog has a post urging members to email LA city council members to oppose a smart shelter program due to safety and privacy concerns. The picture which runs on the blog’s home page is a West Hollywood smart bus shelter. Maybe Scenic America ought to ask West […]
Today’s podcast guest is Bill May, the retired executive director of the Missouri Outdoor Advertising Association. Bill tells how Missouri out of home advertising companies rallied to defeat a Scenic America anti-billboard initiative in 2000. He also gives tips for effective political action. What happened in 2000? The anti-billboard […]
Know your opposition. Here’s the budget for Scenic America, the anti-billboard non-profit. Insider assembled the figures based on Scenic’s IRS 990 forms. Scenic has been growing. Revenues increased from $351,224 during the year ended March 2016 to $803,870 during the year ended March 2019. Scenic is spending $120,000/year in advertising and […]
Inglewood is one of the few cities to permit full motion digital billboards. NBC Los Angeles did a piece about them. Scenic America complains about safety. WOW Media’s Scott Krantz and city of Englewood sources say that accidents have declined in intersections near signs which show full motion video and […]
Bad information dies hard. Last week Manhattan, Kansas commissioner Jerred McKee explained his opposition to digital billboards to The Collegian: “Character is my biggest concern,” McKee said. “In a study I read, digital billboards have a bigger carbon footprint and use 30 times more energy than the average home in […]
