Eagle Media, the publisher of the Butler Eagle, announced Wednesday that it will sell the Pittsburgh City Paper to Cars Holding Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Block Communications.

The closing is expected to take place this month. Terms were not disclosed.

Eagle Media had owned and operated the weekly tabloid paper and its digital site since 2016.

“We are pleased to announce we have found an excellent successor to continue the Pittsburgh City Paper. We have learned over time that the City Paper wasn’t a good fit for our business and trying to manage a Pittsburgh publication from a distance just wasn’t working,” said Ron Vodenichar, president and publisher of the Butler Eagle.

“Cars Holding Inc. stepped up with their offer at the right time and saved the publication from a potential closing and saved the jobs of the employees. We wish the employees well and hope the publication, under strong ownership, experiences many more years of serving the city of Pittsburgh.”

Allan Block, chairman and chief executive officer of Block Communications, said, “We believe in the need for independent journalism and are happy to further our commitment to the city of Pittsburgh and, specifically, to support this well-established entertainment and alternative news publication.”

Block Communications is a privately held diversified media company with operations in cable television, broadband, commercial telecommunications, television broadcasting and newspaper publishing including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade in Toledo, Ohio.