
Clear Channel digital billboard at intersection of Silverlake Blvd. & Effie St.
The digital billboard in Silverlake that caused a community uproar when it first appeared two years ago has been turned off—at least for now. The electronic, jumbotron-like sign is in the district of L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, who has publicly stated in the past that the intensely bright, rapidly changing ads are out of place in the small commercial area closely surrounded by single-family homes and apartment houses.
Posted under Billboards, CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel, Digital Billboards, L.A. City Government
This post was written by dennis on February 4, 2010



Our friends at the interesting and informative urban blogs LAist and Curbed LA have reported on the apparent posting of faux-official “illegal sign” notices on a number of illegal movie-poster-style signs owned by Fuel Outdoor. See 
Three days after handing down a campaign finance decision that rocked the political world, the U.S. Supreme Court handed anti-billboard activists a major victory by refusing to review a lower court’s ruling that California could legally bar off-site commercial advertising along sections of the state’s freeways and highways.


