21.   So, are traditional billboard companies up in arms now that new competition has rolled into town?

22.   Technology has also enabled billboard companies to control changing digital displays, like lottery jackpot numbers, via satellite.

23.   The acquisition makes Phoenix-based Outdoor Systems the largest outdoor billboard company in North America.

24.   The billboard company, Califor nia-based Martin Media of Paso Robles, Calif., removed the sign Tuesday.

25.   The God Ad Campaign is being donated by local billboard companies as a public service.

26.   The future is rosy in Los Angeles as far as billboard companies are concerned.

27.   The news was hailed by anti-tobacco groups as the first time a major billboard media company has instituted such a ban.

28.   The Nur billboard company has been putting them up around the country to show affection for the embattled President Clinton.

29.   To set rates and identify prime locations, billboard companies use traffic-count figures supplied by Caltrans.

30.   Under the deal, billboard companies would remove large numbers of the illegal billboards in exchange for limited, but prime, space along freeways.