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The Glover Park Group is guiding Project Billboard's high-profile
squabble with Clear Channel Communications over its right
to post an anti-war billboard on the Marriott Marquis Hotel
in Times Square from Aug. 2 through Election Day.
Howard Wolfson, the former communications director for Hillary
Clinton's successful run for the New York Senate seat, is
handling media relations.
PB, claims Clear Channel, owner of Spectacolor billboard
company, breached its contract when it rejected the poster
featuring a ticking bomb festooned in red, white and blue
and carrying the sentence, "Democracy is best taught
by example, not by war."
The group says CC agreed to a $368K contract in December,
but then balked when PB delivered the ad.
The parties reached an agreement this week, under which PB
has changed the bomb image to a dove.
CC maintained the bomb image was not appropriate for display
in a city already jittery with terror fears as the Aug. 30-Sept.
2 Republican National Convention draws near. [The N.Y.
Daily News carried "Anarchy Threat to City"
on its July 12 front page.]
PB was founded by women activists living in the San Francisco
Bay area.
San Antonio-based CC operates more than 1,200 radio stations
throughout the U.S., and is said to have close ties with the
White House.
CC has been accused of banning the Dixie Chicks from its
airwaves after singer Natalie Maines told a London concert
crowd that she was ashamed that President Bush is a Texan,
and of organizing pro-war rallies. Its stations also have
organized pro-war rallies.
CC, on its website, says neither represent corporate policy,
but were actions of local station management.
The company recently dropped Howard Stern after he ran afoul
of the Federal Communications Commission's decency standards.
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