Tag: Scott Wells

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 […]

Scott Wells on What’s Up and What’s Down at Clear Channel Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells and CFO Brian Coleman appeared last week at the Cit 2023 Technology Conference.  Here are the highlights. Wells says European asset sales won’t reduce leverage We would love for these to be deleveraging transactions but when you have a debt multiple like we do […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 1% in Second Quarter 2023

Airports recovering.  Billboards and northern Europe ho-hum.  Southern Europe underperforming and on the way out.  That’s how you can summarize the results of Clear Channel Outdoor’s 2Q 2023 earnings release, 2Q 2023 investor deck and conference call. Consolidated revenue declined by 1% to $637 million due to reductions in the […]

Who Makes What at the Public Out of Home Companies

Here’s Billboard Insider’s list of who makes what at the public out of home companies.  We computed the list based on total compensation in each company’s 2022 14A proxy statement. Three observations: Everyone except Reilly and Wells is down All the execs except Sean Reilly and Scott Wells had pay […]

Scott Wells on Assets Sales and Digital Billboard Conversions

Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells appeared that the TD Cowen 51st annual technology, media and telecom conference this week.  A selection of his comments. Expect More Asset Sales We’re definitely not done…We need to exit Europe in a reasonable time frame to become a REIT.  Nothing has changed…It became […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas Revenue Down 1% in 1Q 23

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue grew but cashflow (adjusted EBIDTA) declined during the first quarter of 2023. Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 23 earnings release, investor deck and conference call. Consolidated revenue excluding FX grew 7% to $545 million as growth in the company’s European operations […]

What the Public US Out of Home CEO’s are Thinking

Here’s a selection of comments by Lamar CEO Sean Reilly, OUTFRONT CEO Jeremy Male and Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells at the 2023 OAAA Geopath Show CEO panel. Scott Wells says the first quarter is slow but next year looks OK Things slowed down toward the end of last […]

Clear Channel’s Switzerland Business Sale Receives Regulatory Approval

SAN ANTONIO, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) (the “Company”) today announced that the sale of the Company’s Switzerland business to Goldbach Group, an affiliate of TX Group, has received regulatory approval from the Swiss Competition Commission. The Company now expects the transaction to close […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenues Up 0.9% in 4Q 22.

“We’re off to a good start and believe 2023 will be a positive year for the business, despite some uncertainties regarding the macro environment,” said Clear Channel CEO Scott Wells yesterday.  Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 4Q 2022 earnings release, 4Q 2022 earnings presentation and conference […]