After months of failed negotiations, Scripps put the "Pittsburgh Press" up for sale on October 2, 1992. Block Communications, the owners of the much smaller JOA paper, the "Post-Gazette", agreed to purchase the paper, effective November 30, upon the settlement of the strike. The first issue of the newly combined "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette", the first in nearly six months, was published on January 18, 1993, as a single combined newspaper incorporating many features and personnel from the "Press", which would no longer be published.