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 ...

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 ...

HOLLYWOOD — UPN plans to go with the flow this fall, constructing a schedule the net believes will be more cohesive than in the past. The netlet has struggled with flowing its audience throughout the ...

It may seem strange that a white woman in her early 40s would be a huge rap fan. Since the fan is UPN entertainment head Dawn Ostroff, it makes the notion especially intriguing. “My husband,” Ostroff ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

Wrestling czar Vince McMahon is caught in a headlock and is crying uncle. Squeezed by losses and a sharp drop in both TV fans and arena audiences, McMahon has agreed to give up control of ad sales at ...

UPN executives can smell what the WWE is cooking – and they want more. The network renewed the wrestling circuit’s “Smackdown” yesterday for multiple years – with a twist. Rather than the WWE paying ...

UPN, working with America Online, Inc. and Maserati, have begun the UPN Platinum Sweepstakes that features a grand prize car with a retail value of $99,000. For six weeks beginning in April, UPN will ...