[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh-Some Place Special

[Tom Phillips]

My recollection of these dates is strictly approximate: 
The SUN-TELEGRAPH folded sometime in the '50's as I recall.  
The PITTSBURGH PRESS merged with the POST-GAZETTE in the '70's. 
The Press and the Tele were afternoon and Sunday papers -- the 
Post-Gazette, a morning only paper, did not publish on Sundays.

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Jim Holland wrote:

> 	Wasn't there a merger with Post-Gazette early 1960s?

http://www.post-gazette.com/aboutpg/history.asp

But that wasn't the end of the paper's long history of acquiring other
newspapers. On April 23, 1960, the Post-Gazette  purchased the
Sun-Telegraph from the Hearst Corp. and moved its own operations to the
Sun-Telegraph building on Grant Street.

For 18 months the Post-Gazette published a Sunday edition of the
consolidated papers, but the Pittsburgh market would not support two
Sunday newspapers.