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rage 1 or 2 Home • corporate • Press Releases Press Releases Corporate Info Company History Corporate Divisions Corporate Officers Investor Relations Press Releases Public Service Real Estate Clear Channel Communications Note: For information or to ask a question regarding our press releases, please click here to send an email. NOVEMBER 15, 2006 CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR UNVEILS TWO NEW HIGH - IMPACT DIGITAL BILLBOARD NETWORKS Cities of Milwaukee and Tampa follow highly successful digital network launches in Cleveland, Las Vegas and Albuquerque Phoenix, AZ — November 15, 2006 — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) today announced new digital billboard launches in the cities of Milwaukee and Tampa, furthering its goal of adding digital billboard networks in all of its major U.S. markets. "Our goal for 2006 was to deploy fully networked, digital signage products in four to six markets, and by year's end we will successfully reach the upper end of that goal," said Paul Meyer, global president of Clear Channel Outdoor. "New digital technologies provide us with the capability to execute both general market and targeted advertising campaigns that consumers can't mute, fast forward or erase. Outdoor's digital conversion is slowly but surely transforming the industry into the most flexible and responsive of all advertising platforms." In Milwaukee the company has converted six large format bulletins into a digital network that provides broad general market coverage reaching almost 600,000 Milwaukeeans every day. Tampa has converted the first three locations of what is expected to be a nine bulletin network that will also provide general market coverage in that city. Like the company's existing digital networks, these too will allow advertising copy to be changed remotely as often as advertisers' needs dictate. Advertising messages will run in a continuous loop, enabling each message to be displayed on each sign in the network multiple times each day, and in the case of Tampa, a minimum of 1250 times at each location during every 24 hours. Both markets are running public service messages during most of the remainder of November prior to taking paid commercial advertising. Similar digital billboard networks were launched in Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and London, England earlier this year. The company's' first digital network debuted in Cleveland last year. Next year it plans to add second digital networks in both Cleveland and Las Vegas. About Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel Outdoor, based in Phoenix, Arizona, is the world's largest outdoor advertising company with over 881,000 displays in more than 60 countries across 6 continents. In the United States, the company operates over 155,000 advertising displays and has a presence in 45 of the top 50 Designated Market Areas. It also operates airport, rail, taxi and mall advertising businesses worldwide. Its Spectacolor (U.S.) and DEFI (international) divisions are the global market leaders in • • http:// www. clearchanneloutdoor .com/corporate /pre. - 4 2 -vases. asp ?section =show_ release &id =7331 2/21/2007