Tag: tennessee

Roland Outdoor welcomes President Trump to storm damaged Tennessee

  Photos used with permission of Dave Roland, Roland Digital Media and Tasty Ad President Trump came to Tennessee to inspect tornado damage.  Dave Roland of Roland Digital Media ordered some vinyls welcoming the president and also ran ad copy on his 20 digital signs welcoming the President.  Dave tells […]

Help Roland Digital Media Help At Risk Kids.

By Todd Pile, Executive Account Manager, Roland Digital Media I work for Dave Roland and his great team at Roland Digital Media in Tennessee. There is a ministry that our company is involved in that I would like tell you about, and about a sudden need for this program. Next […]

Tennessee House Subcommittee Approves Sign Legislation

The Tennessee House Transportation Subcommittee on Infrastructure passed two bills to amend the State’s sign regulations.  Both bills are  designed to fix Tennessee’s sign regulations which were overturned by the Thomas v Bright court challenge. HB 1071 is legislation prepared by various stakeholders including the out of home advertising industry.   HB […]

How Tennessee Cities are Responding to Thomas v Bright

Tomorrow the Chattanooga city council will vote on an ordinance instituting a 180 day moratorium on accepting and processing permits for new outdoor advertising signs or permits for the conversion of static billboards to digital  billboards. The moratorium says that the city’s sign ordinance is modeled in part on the […]

Can Tennessee Legislature Remedy Court Challenge?

Tennessee’s General Assembly has started considering changes to Tennessee’s billboard-control law because federal courts have ruled the law unconstitutional. The motivation to enact a new billboard law is to remedy a pending legal challenge regarding free speech (Thomas v. Bright). Similar constitutional challenges to billboard law arose in Oregon and […]

Billboard Insider’s Top 5 stories for 2019

Here are Billboard Insider’s top 5 out of home stories for 2019. Mr Falzone Learns How To Conduct Business in Louisiana In April 2019 Scenic America President Mark Falzone said unflattering things about Lamar while testifying on an anti-billboard bill before the Louisiana legislature.  Lamar CEO Sean Reilly, a former […]

Rothfelder on Reed, Auspro and Thomas

On November 6, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied the petition for rehearing en banc in Thomas vs. Bright. In doing so, the Federal Appellate Court set the stage for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, or more likely, to a legislative fix of […]

US Court of Appeals Won’t Reopen Thomas Case

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied a request by the Tennessee DOT to rehear the Thomas Case.  There are now two possible solutions.  (1) The Tennessee legislature passes a fix to the state’s sign code when it reconvenes in January.  (2) The Tennessee DOT appeals […]

Company of the Day: Mountain Outdoor

Company:  Mountain Outdoor Markets:  Tennessee Address:  9724 Kingston Pike, Suite 204, Knoxville, TN  37922 Phone: 865-691-4705 Email: jchurch@mountainoutdoor.com Mountain Outdoor operates a billboard company in East Tennessee.  Insider talked with Dwight and Justin Church. How did Mountain Outdoor get into the billboard business? Mountain Outdoor started in 1993. We have […]

Tennessee Asks Full Appeals Court to Hear Billboard Case

The State of Tennessee wants a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that Tennessee’s billboard law is unconstitutional. Tennessee, via a petition filed September 25, is seeking a review of this important billboard case by the full US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (known as an en banc […]