After more than a year of looming over the Birmingham skyline, Alexander Shunnarah is giving up his place on one of the state’s largest billboards.

The sign atop the Two North 20th Building is losing its advertisement for the “Call Me Alabama!” celebrity attorney.

According to Laurel, Miss.- based advertising firm Trailhead Media, a billboard for Alabama A&M will take its place for at least the next nine months.

Trailhead Media CEO Randy Otto said the new advertisement will go up “as soon as wind and weather permits.”

Attempts to reach Shunnarah for comment were not immediately successful.

The 179-by 25-foot sign on top of the 17-story building at Morris Avenue has been a feature of Birmingham’s skyline for more than 50 years.

It was formerly an electronic sign with more than 1,330 lights, projecting changing messages.

The sign went dark in 1988, and was briefly reactivated in 1996 and 2001. Then it was sold in 2013.