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Clear Channel Outdoor and Nevada Amber Alert Committee Successfully Conclude Alert Tests -- System is Now Live.


New, Digital Billboards Provide Invaluable Community Service; Provide Up-to-the-Minute Updates for Child Endangerment Service

New Alert System Builds on Recent, Successful Amber Alert AmĀ·ber Alert
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A message that conveys information about a recently abducted person, usually displayed on electronic signs positioned along roadways and broadcast by mass media, intended to enlist the public's help in finding the abducted person and
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LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE NYSE

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:CCO (Chief or Corporate Compliance Officer) The executive person in charge of compliance issues, regulatory requirements, internal controls and managing audits within an enterprise or organization. ) and the Nevada Amber Alert Committee today announced the successful conclusion of Amber Alert testing on seven digital billboards serving the Las Vegas area. The completion of the test officially gives the Nevada Amber Alert Committee access to the digital billboards. The seven billboards are located along key areas within the Las Vegas Area.

"We could not be more excited about our ability to utilize our digital technology to provide this invaluable community service, which will be available to Las Vegas not only when a child is missing but also during a wide array of other community emergencies," said Paul Meyer
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, Global President of Clear Channel Outdoor. "We expect to establish similar emergency messaging protocols in other cities where Clear Channel Outdoor has deployed digital networks."

"These digital billboards will allow police agencies in Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
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  • Clark County, Idaho
  • Clark County, Illinois
  • Clark County, Indiana
  • Clark County, Kansas
  • Clark County, Kentucky
  • Clark County, Missouri
 to get missing children information out as quickly as possible. We'd like to thank Clear Channel Outdoor for giving local authorities unprecedented access to these billboards," said Bob Fisher, President of the Nevada Broadcasters Association and of the Nevada Amber Alert Committee.

As part of its agreement with Nevada Amber Alert Committee, the Las Vegas division of Clear Channel Outdoor now has the ability to download missing child information, including a photograph. By activating a system that is set up only for the purpose of communicating Amber Alert messages, the information will override the commercial schedule that is currently playing on each digital unit and quickly broadcast the Amber Alert information to thousands of people instantaneously.

Information kits and video are now available regarding the Digital Outdoor Network at www.donlv.com

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 Defi Deutsche Filmografie (German Filmography)
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 (international) divisions are the global market leaders in spectacular sign displays, including in New York's Times Square. Adshel(TM) is the company's international street furniture division, which operates more than 3,500 municipal advertising contracts worldwide. More information may be found by visiting www.clearchanneloutdoor.com.
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