Hoping to cut costs and boost advertising at its unprofitable UPN television network, Viacom Inc. said Monday that it will combine CBS and UPN under one management team in January. As a result of the ...

In a move that ensures UPN’s immediate survival, the netlet Tuesday sealed a long-in-the-works affiliation deal with the Chris-Craft station group. Next up, Viacom and News Corp. — set to acquire ...

Twentieth Century Fox Television’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” — the signature drama of the WB network — is pulling up stakes and moving to Frog nemesis UPN. Pact, which could ultimately end up with a ...

Changing Channels: The merger of the WB and UPN networks leaves WWOR-TV facing an uncertain futureWhile UPN and The WB celebrate plans to meld their separate fledgling television networks into one, ...

The Federal Communications Commission relaxed its restriction against two networks belonging to a single company, a decision that most immediately affects Viacom's ownership of CBS and the fledgling ...

All the broadcast networks had to battle the languid economy in the 2001 upfront. But UPN had at least one other major hurdle: uncertainty about its future. Enter advertiser wariness. "Last year, ...

PASADENA, Calif., July 16 -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is dead and well at UPN. "Buffy" lead Sarah Michelle Gellar made a surprise appearance today at UPN's Q&A session on the series, pulling in the ...

NEW YORK --The XFL pro-football league has folded after only one season, throwing its partners NBC and the World Wrestling Federation for a $70 million loss. In a conference call with reporters, WWF ...

The largely promising fall prime-time season is off to a minimalist start tonight with the UPN premiere of “One on One,” another of those contemporary broad comedies that exhume rotted-through old ...

2001-02-06 04:00:00 PDT New York / Los Angeles / New York-- UPN's telecast of the new XFL football league Sunday was seen by 4.2 percent of homes in the nation's largest markets -- twice the rating ...

UPN will stagger the premiere of its 2001-02 primetime schedule beginning Thursday, August 16 and continuing through Tuesday, October 9, it has been announced. UPN will stagger the premiere of its ...

UPN jumped to fourth place last night with coverage of the 2001 Source Hip-Hop Awards. ABC took first, however, with 6.8m (11%) during primetime. NBC came second with 6.4m (10%), followed by CBS with ...