TGO Up For Sale

Looks like Scottish mountain walking magazine TGO is up for sale.

TGO is a part of the Scottish Media Group - SMG - which has just announced its intentions to sell off its newspaper and magazine interests which also include major papers the Herald, the Sunday Herald and the Evening Times and cracking specialist titles such as Scottish Farmer, Classic Record Collector, Choir and Organ and Boxing News. The group bought the titles from Caledonian Publishing in 1996.

The move is to allow SMG to concentrate on its broadcasting interests and rumours that it was triggered by the declining number of beards pictured in TGO are utterly untrue. Regular OM-ers will recall that the currently hibernating Virtual Magazine Rack ran a monthly 'beard count', an exercise which charted a savage slashing of beard numbers and, eventually, a complete re-design including cropped photos of editor Cameron McNeish and gear tester Chris Townsend, which artistically eliminate their facial hair.

Magazines have a way of being bought in job-lots like old things in the attic, so it's unlikely to mean any drastic changes for readers. TGO costs £2.95.

For light relief we recommend a visit to cameronmcneish.com where a Flash intro depicts the great man tottering up a hill. The iMac-hued icons are also worth a look.