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Reno City Council Extends Moratorium on Digital Billboards

Reno, NV – Continuing a nearly two-decade fight over how to interpret a voter-approved ban on new billboards in the city of Reno, the council on Wednesday extended its moratorium on digital billboards for another year. The council also halted the city’s practice of creating “banked billboard receipts,” which let billboard owners demolish an existing sign

Building Impressions: EMCs Change the Signage Landscape

The LED has certainly become a major component for lighting, signage and display. I’ve watched it happen over my 25 years in the business of providing brand and image solutions. Many of those solutions involve digital displays. There are many forms of these visual displays including the electronic message center, or EMC. There are also

LED versus Static: Why Digital Billboards

Cruising down the highway on the way to work, running errands while the kids are at school, or maybe a family road trip across the country; thousands of drivers a day pass by the advertisement you purchased on a prime location billboard in the hopes of boosting your revenue, but how many of them actually

For Billboard Owners, Threat of Legal Challenge Presents Opportunity

City of Austin might weigh new rules on digital billboards. Recent court rulings will likely affect the city’s efforts to revise its billboard rules as part of CodeNext. Eight sections deep in the city’s vast 1,100-plus-page draft rewrite of its land use rules sits a footnote that portends a possible legal challenge to come. But,

City Council Approves Relocation of 3 Billboards, Sets New Precedent

TN-Three untouched locations in Clarksville will now have billboards after the City Council approved Lamar Advertising’s relocation proposal in Thursday’s regular session. “I think we have opened Pandora’s box. The billboard companies are now going to move to profitable spots,” Ward 3 Councilman Ron Erb said. “I’m just scared that we have rewritten the code by our

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