By JULIA PRESTON
Published: July 16, 2004
An antiwar group reached a settlement yesterday with Clear Channel Communications over a billboard advertisement the group wanted to display in Times Square, agreeing to post an image of a red, white and blue dove instead of a bomb with a burning fuse. The media conglomerate said it would provide two alternative billboards, instead of the one on the Marriott Marquis hotel that it originally leased to the group.
In an amicable ending to a dispute that could have become an embarrassment for Clear Channel, the company agreed that the group, Project Billboard, could display its ad on a billboard that wraps around the Condé Nast building at 42nd Street and Broadway, a prime location. The ad will go up in early August, in time for the opening of the Republican National Convention, and will remain for three months. It will include the phrase "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war," which Clear Channel at one point tried to revise to eliminate the reference to the war in Iraq.
As part of the settlement, Project Billboard will also be able to use a second vertical billboard for four months, on the side of the W Hotel at Broadway and 47th Street. That ad will read "Total Cost of Iraq War," and will include a running electronic ticker displaying how much the United States is spending in Iraq.
Deborah Rappaport, a board member at Project Billboard, said the group would get the two billboards for $368,000, the price it originally paid to lease one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/nyregion/16billboard.html
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