The First Annual Ban Billboard Blight Awards

Since there are plenty of year-end awards given to people and organizations doing good works, we thought we’d start an annual (for 2009, anyway) list of those in the world of outdoor advertising here in L.A. whom we believe to be particularly deserving of recognition for less than felicitous deeds.

Posted under AEG, Billboards, CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel, Digital Billboards, Freeway Billboards, L.A. City Government, Supergraphics

This post was written by dennis on December 21, 2009

We Told You So: New Legal Challenge to L.A.’s Latest Billboard Ban Cites Permits Issued For Signs in Defiance of City Attorney’s Advice

Regal Cinema & Hollywood Roosevelt

Regal Cinemas, left, as seen from freeway; Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, right

Three weeks after the City Attorney told City Council members that issuing permits for six off-site advertising signs in downtown’s L.A. Live area could jeopardize the no-exceptions sign ban approved by the council in August, a lawsuit in federal court has cited those permits among a number of reasons the ban should be declared unconstitutional.

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Posted under AEG, Billboards, CRA, L.A. City Government, Supergraphics, Trutanich

This post was written by dennis on November 7, 2009