he Bellevue, Kentucky School District is requesting that the City of Bellevue alter its sign ordinance to allow for the construction of a billboard next to the school’s football field on Interstate 471. Read the rest of this entry »
Bellevue School District Pushes For Sign Variance
May 28th, 2010Bossier City Looks to “Cap and Replace” System
May 20th, 2010Bossier City, Louisiana is moving towards enactment of a new billboard ordinance based on a “cap and replace” system.
Under this system, the total number of signs in Bossier City would be frozen, Read the rest of this entry »
Clear Channel Plays Major Role in Saving Hollywood Landmark
May 20th, 2010Clear Channel Outdoor, one of the nation’s largest outdoor advertising companies, has helped to save the landmark “Hollywood” sign in Los Angeles, California. Read the rest of this entry »
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Michigan Considers Banning LED Billboards
May 3rd, 2010The Michigan legislature is considering a two-year ban on LED billboards to allow for more time to study their effect on distracting drivers. House bill 5580 would place a two-year ban on new LED sign construction. Read the rest of this entry »
Burkett Media Taps Watchfire For First Digital Billboard in Killeen, Texas
May 3rd, 2010DANVILLE, Ill. and KILLEEN, TEXAS – (April 29, 2010) – Burkett Media, a rapidly growing independent billboard company in Austin, Texas, selected Watchfire Digital Outdoor (http://www.watchfiredigitaloutdoor.com) to manufacture its first digital billboard. The E-16mm, 14′x48′ billboard is the first digital billboard in the Killeen market. Located on Highway 190 (locally known as Central Texas Expressway) in Harker Heights, Texas, nearly 80,000 cars pass by this location daily on the way to Killeen and the Fort Hood military base. Read the rest of this entry »
Tampa City Council Scales Back Digital Billboards
April 24th, 2010The City of Tampa City Council offered a scaled back digital sign offering following a motion by councilman John Dingfelder. The city had been preparing to vote on allowing Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor to install 16 digital signs each on interstate highways and roadways of their choosing, when Dingfelder made the motion that the number be lowered to 6 digital signs each. That motion carried. Read the rest of this entry »
Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Can’t Seem To Get Billboard Removed
April 16th, 2010The City of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, voted to take a billboard in the parking lot of a new hotel as a part of the condemnation process two years ago. Yet it’s still standing – and advertising a competing hotel.
“We’re still anticipating the city removing the billboard” hotel developer Paul Borsheim said. “They say they’re committed to getting it removed. Unfortunately, the condemnation process doesn’t go as quickly as we would like”. Read the rest of this entry »
Freedom Of Speech Arguments Fall Short Of Saving Oakland Billboard.
April 16th, 2010A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the City of Oakland was correct in removing an illegal billboard last year. The decision may end seven years of litigation in which the billboard company, Desert Outdoor Advertising, had maintained that it had the right to keep the billboard on East Ninth Street based on Freedom of Speech protections. Read the rest of this entry »
Billboard Coalition Sues L.A. City Attorney
April 9th, 2010A lawsuit has been filed against the Los Angeles City Attorney to bar him from arresting sign law violators and setting excessive bail.
The suit was filed by the President of three outdoor companies and a property rights group. It comes after Keyvan Setareh, the owner of a building at Hollywood Blvd. and Highland on which a supergraphic was placed, was jailed for a weekend in lieu of $1,000,000 bond. Read the rest of this entry »
