A rumor on the streets of SA — streets soon to be glamourized by the high-def glow of 15 digital billboards — is that Clear Channel Outdoor, the nature-advertising arm of SA-based media behemoth Clear Channel Communications, knows it’s not going to get one more ever-lovin’ electrical signpost. So when City Council passed the “pilot program” last December that gave the Mays’ family jewel a dozen of those 15 pilot boards, Clear Channel was poised to grab prime spots.
The Queque swears on our stack of Gore Vidal novels that we were done with the Clear Channel digital-billboard story [see “Hang ’em high (and fast), August 27, 2008] — at least while we finished filing and waiting on open-records requests at the state and federal level (because we’re struck practically dumb with admiration at the way our local media juggernaut stormed the fed-state-local regs in one Sherman-esque march to the “see”). But a little vanguard doc showed up late last week, a sort of scouting party, we assume, for an army of interesting info to follow. (this article came from the San Antonio Current with the same story title)
The Queque made light of it last week because we didn’t have a document in our hands, but thanks to the assistance of a digital-billboard activist in Phoenix, Arizona, where they’re litigating the location of eight electronic variable-message signs, the Current has a photocopy of a City of Phoenix employment record for Clear Channel Outdoor President Blake Custer. It’s more suitable for reading by one of those old electronic...
