Company: East – West Media Markets: Tennessee Headquarters: 18 W. Madison Ave., Athens, TN 37303 Phone: 423-337-4444 Email: billboards@eastwestmedia.com East West Media was started in 2001 by Bobby Mizer. The firm is family owned and run with 5 Mizer’s active in the business: Bobby (founder), Brad (President), Charlie (Account Executive), […]
By Nancy Fletcher, President and CEO, OAAA For the first time, the basic billboard regulatory scheme is under attack on constitutional grounds. The lawyers like to make it more complicated, but the question boils down to this: Does the First Amendment trump the regulation of billboards? Or, to put it […]
The Cato Institute and other conservative think tanks are supporting the legal attack on billboard law as unconstitutional infringement on free speech. Cato, based in Washington, DC, filed an amicus brief on April 10 in a case called Thomas v. Schroer, which challenges Tennessee’s billboard controls. “Tennessee’s statutory and regulatory […]
Company: Visual Outdoor, LLC Headquarters: 379 Bee Tree Ln. Blairsville, GA 30512 Markets: Northeast Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee Phone: (706) 745-9322 Visual Outdoor Advertising is owned by Terry Poteete and operates in Northeast Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee. They own and operate 71 billboards with 217 […]
By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Leading court cases across the country affecting OOH advertising have a common thread: The First Amendment. Here is a status report: Tennessee Billboard Law The state’s billboard-control law has been invalidated. The State of Tennessee is preparing an appeal to […]
By Kerry Yoakum, OAAA In a closely watched case, a federal judge in Memphis has issued a final order on September 20 in a ruling that invalidated Tennessee’s billboard-control act on constitutional grounds. The case (Thomas v. Schroer) challenged the state’s Highway Beautification Act as suppression of free speech protected […]
The Leaf-Chronicle reports that the Clarksville, TN city council has voted to allow Lamar to relocate billboards from College Street, Wilma Rudolph Boulevard and Madison Street to new locations on Bellamy Lane, Lowes Drive and Tiny Town Road. Clarksville has had a ban on new billboards since 1996. Billboards […]
The University of Tennessee Knoxville reports that a professor in the University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Media gave his students an assignment to create billboards to encourage people to vote. The constraints were: Non-partisan No Images Three words one of which must be a variation of the word […]
