UPN, the broadcast network best known for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the latest “Star Trek” series and sitcoms aimed at black audiences, has cut its losses in half from last year, a top executive ...

UPN and World Wrestling Entertainment have sealed a multiyear deal to keep grapplefest “WWE Smackdown” on the netlet, under new terms. The net now will air “Smackdown” under a traditional license-fee ...

With just a year left in UPN’s affiliation deal with the Fox Television Stations group, both sides are already positioning themselves for what could be a fierce renegotiation. The chess game between ...

It’s true, it’s true: “WWE Smackdown!” will continue on UPN for several years to come. The network and World Wrestling Entertainment have signed a multiyear agreement to keep the weekly “sports ...

UPN and its weblet rival the WB have competed on generally equal footing among viewers since both started broadcasting in 1995. But the WB has what UPN has always lacked an identity. With the help of ...

UPN plans five new shows - a companion science-fiction drama to lead-out Enterprise and four new comedies - for the fall 2003-04 TV season. The Viacom-owned broadcast network announced the schedule ...

HOLLYWOOD – UPN, the only network with a block of series featuring mostly black casts, is adding a new ingredient to its urban-flavored programming: white people. On One on One, a comedy about a ...

Struggling network UPN got a new lease on life Wednesday when the Fox station group agreed to renew its affiliation agreement with Viacom Inc. for stations in Los Angeles and other key markets. Terms ...

1 Star ABBY. Tonight at 9:30, UPN. Watching Sidney Poitier’s daughter Sydney Tamiia Poitier in the new UPN sitcom “Abby” is like watching Renee Zellweger in “The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Network television heads into the fall with one of the largest concentrations of programming for minority viewers in recent memory, topped by Fox and UPN’s announcements Thursday of their 2003-04 ...