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Torstar Corp. is planning to buy the company OMG media which reflects consolidations and change in the out-of-home industry, as of September 15, 2003. As OMG media was gathering speed, in May 2002 it had a head-on collision with bad press. An alleged crime figure in Montreal, Quebec province was stopped driving an SUV registered to OMG, whose then-Quebec president Michael Strizzi, resigned shortly afterwards. Alan High, vice president of marketing and operations for the company Clear Channel Outdoor Canada in Toronto, Ontario suggests Torstar Corp. could deck out OMG boxes with logos in cities where it owns papers and use them to sell single copies.

The article reports that Montreal, Quebec-based Zoom Media Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with Toronto indoor digital billboard company Smart One Media. The deal means Zoom will use Smart One's technology to offer a national digital screen network in its Zoom Sport and Zoom Resto-bar networks. Zoom will expand its existing Zoom Sport network with the installation of 350 digital screens in the change rooms of fitness venues in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The new network is designed to provide greater visibility for advertisers targeting active, health-conscious consumers.

Describes the efforts initiated by Montreal, Quebec-based Transcontinental Publications Inc. in transforming itself as the largest publisher of specialty magazines in Canada. Release of advertisers packages that would offer the company marketing edge; Potential of Telemedia's proposed acquisition to enhance Transcontinental's business.

Reports on TVA network's online auction of commercial time available during Celine Dion's end of the millennium concert from Montreal, Quebec. Expected earning from selling commercial time online; Minimum time and price for the bids set by TVA; Plan to start the bidding process by October 12, 1999 until November 12, 1999.