Are Digital Billboards Scarring the Los Angeles Skyline?

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In a city given over to the automobile, billboards have been a fixture here for decades. Some have even become Los Angeles icons: think of the giant Angelyne ad or the Marlboro Man on the Sunset Strip. But now there’s a new generation of huge illuminated billboards throwing blasts of digital light into homes and neighborhoods.
In a city given over to the automobile, billboards have been a fixture here for decades. Some have even become Los Angeles icons: think of the giant Angelyne ad or the Marlboro Man on the Sunset Strip. But now there’s a new generation of huge illuminated billboards throwing blasts of digital light into homes and neighborhoods. Have these digital signs become a blight on the city? Can the city stop them?

Jim Sterngold guest hosts.

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Credits

Host:

Jim Sterngold

Producers:

Karen Radziner, Katie Cooper, Frances Anderton, Andrea Brody, Christian Bordal, Sonya Geis