The 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. (more…)
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Michigan Considers Banning LED Billboards
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Burkett Media Taps Watchfire For First Digital Billboard in Killeen, Texas
Monday, 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. (more…)
Tampa City Council Scales Back Digital Billboards
Saturday, 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. (more…)
Billboard Coalition Sues L.A. City Attorney
Friday, 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. (more…)
Michigan Considers Banning Led Billboards
Saturday, April 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. (more…)
More Cities Move To Ban Digital Billboards
Friday, March 26th, 2010St. Louis, Missouri just became the latest city to put a moratorium on the installation of new digital billboards. The moratorium runs for one year, and is timed to coincide with the release of a study on the distraction of digital billboards being researched by the U.S. government. (more…)
City Of Meriden, Connecticut Near To Agreement To Lease City Property For CBS Outdoor Billboard
Monday, March 22nd, 2010The Economic Development Council of Meriden, Connecticut is moving close to approval for CBS Outdoor to construct a billboard on city-owned property. It is still contingent upon approval from the City Council. (more…)
Missouri Proposes Significant Changes To Billboard Ordinances
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Representative Bob Dixon has proposed a bill that would make significant, industry-friendly changes in the outdoor code for Missouri. (more…)
Only One Ticket Left For The Billboard Boot Camp In St. Louis On April 10th And 11th.
Sunday, March 14th, 2010What do you get when you cross one of the most successful billboard entrepreneurs in the U.S. with someone who loves to teach? The answer is Frank Rolfe, and the event is the Billboard Boot Camp, in which Rolfe teaches the insider secrets, tricks and shortcuts he used to build from scratch the largest privately-owned billboard company in Dallas/Ft. Worth, as well as the best acquisition in Los Angeles outdoor history. (more…)
Digital Billboard Debate in Michigan
Friday, March 12th, 2010Scenic Michigan, a non-profit group, is pushing a bill that would create a moratorium on new digital signs in Michigan until 2012. It is requesting that all new digital signs be put on hold until the government releases its study on the effects of digital signs on drivers. (more…)
