We previously took at look at CBS Outdoor’s initiative to replace its legal non-conforming ground sign structures with new structures in At Victoria Park and the Danforth, Aerial Photographs Prove CBS Outdoor Built Two Illegal Billboards Sometime After 2003. These things are easy to spot. All you have to do is look for a single-legged [...]

The law won’t stop CBS Outdoor’s Stephen McGregor from putting up illegal billboards. These are CBS’s billboards at Victoria Park, 220 metres south of the Danforth, on CNR railway property: What happened here is that CBS Outdoor entirely removed two existing legal non-conforming 10′x20′ sign structures and replaced them with two entirely new structures. This [...]

This is Pattison Outdoor’s illegal roof sign at 1485 Dupont Street: This is a third-party sign on a first-party permit. Third-party signs are generally in standard formats. There are basically three standard formats in Toronto’s billboard industry: 10′x20′ horizontal boards, 16′x12′ vertical boards, and 14′x48′ horizontal boards. In this case, the sign is a 10′x40′, [...]

CBS Outdoor has the oldest billboard inventory in the City of Toronto. Many of CBS’ signs that were built in the 1950s and 1960s by its predecessor companies EL Ruddy and Mediacom are a non-standard format and were illegally converted into standard 10′x20′ signs. We previously looked at one of these illegal conversions in At [...]

Something interesting just happened on the most depressing stretch of Eastern Avenue. Something’s up and we think Pattison stealing a valuable roof sign lease from CBS Outdoor has something to do with it. This is what the roof of 150 Eastern Avenue used to look like: Those roof sign structures have now been totally removed. [...]