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		<title>Strange Bedfellows?  Unions Lobby for Clear Channel&#8217;s Digital Billboards</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7812</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 19, 2007, union workers who changed ad copy on Clear Channel billboards in Boston went on strike when the company unilaterally imposed deep wage and benefit cuts even though it had made a $153 million profit the previous year. In response, Clear Channel fired the workers and hired replacements, whose training was called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Billboards: Tear Them Down, or Wrap Them With Vinyl Ads?</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7798</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest chapter of L.A.&#8217;s digital billboard saga opened this week with an announcement by CBS Outdoor that it intends to cover its now-dark digital billboard faces with vinyl ads. At the same time, the company whose lawsuit resulted in last month&#8217;s order to &#8220;pull the plug&#8221; on 99 digital billboards filed a new motion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billboard Companies Ramp Up Lobbying in 2013</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7788</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billboard companies spent almost $700,000 lobbying Los Angeles city officials in the first quarter of this year, according to City Ethics Commission records. That&#8217;s a threefold increase over the amount the companies spent in the same three-month period of 2012. Leading the pack were Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor, which together spent $421,000 to lobby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upping the Ante: Company Seeks Court Order Allowing 45 New Digital Billboards</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7775</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carmen Trutanich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Silverlake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in late March, Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising filed a lawsuit seeking to force the city to issue permits for 17 new, full-sized digital billboards. Now the company has amended that suit, asking for a total of 45 digital billboards on 29 different major thoroughfares throughout the city. Click here for details of the lawsuit.  See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyesore of the Week:  Brought to You by Clear Channel</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7767</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The supports for these two Clear Channel billboards at the corner of Culver Blvd. and Centinela Ave. in West L.A. have been gathering rust for years.  So perhaps the company might consider a little beautification as part of the community benefits it likes to tout.  On the other hand, it has mounted a huge legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A.&#8217;s Digital Billboards Go Dark. What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7759</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Collins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Perry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone out there believe that the final chapter of the city&#8217;s digital billboard saga has been written? That the collection of black billboard faces pasted into the visual landscape like minimalist art pieces is Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor&#8217;s farewell gesture to long-suffering residents of the city? Even before Superior Court Judge Terry Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The World According to Clear Channel</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7741</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.&#8221; Attributed to Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli, and others In its quest to save its digital billboards from court-ordered extinction, Clear Channel has employed a small army of lobbyists and public relations operatives to convince city councilmembers and their constituents that the digital billboards occupy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamar Advertising Sues for Right to Put Up 17 New Digital Billboards in L.A.</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7730</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before the dust has settled on the recent court ruling invalidating the 101 digital billboard permits issued to Clear Channel and CBS, a third billboard company is seeking a court order compelling the city to issue permits for 17 new digital billboards in various locations, including the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, Eagle Rock, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Wars: L.A.&#8217;s Mobile Billboard Ban Upheld By Court</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7722</link>
		<comments>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7722#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Blumenfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Boyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Zine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city&#8217;s ban on billboards mounted to trailers and parked on city streets was upheld this week by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. A San Fernando Valley company responsible for many of the billboards had sued the city shortly after the 2011 enactment of the ban, claiming that it violated the company&#8217;s First Amendment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither L.A.&#8217;s Digital Billboards? No Consensus in &#8220;Visioning&#8221; Group</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7713</link>
		<comments>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=7713#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would probably be unfair to say that the city&#8217;s &#8220;Billboard and Visual Landscape Visioning Group&#8221; accomplished nothing in its three recent meetings to discuss a regulatory framework for allowing digital signage. After all, community activists and billboard company representatives sat across the table from each other without coming to blows or resorting to invective [...]]]></description>
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