Mel Karmazin, chief executive officer of Viacom, pledged Monday that the newly consolidated operations of his company’s two broadcast networks would maintain “the distinct voices of CBS and UPN. That ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president and chief executive of thestruggling television network UPN filed a breach-of-contract suitagainst his own company, claiming he is owed more than $22 millionin bonuses ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add UPN to the list of networks canceling their annual spring affiliates meetings in favor of alternative gatherings. Rather than throwing one big affil confab, UPN will hold of a series of smaller ...

Some of the UPN television network’s biggest advertisers will receive a package of “value-added promotions” in exchange for buying traditional air time at a premium for the upcoming season, a source ...

CENSOR AND SENSIBILITY After the 1999 debut of ”Shasta McNasty,” we suspected that UPN may have had no standards, but who knew they actually had no standards and practices? The home of ”Smackdown!” ...

ADVERTISERS and network execs are preparing to drop yet another bomb in their escalating invasion of prime-time TV shows. It’s another twist in the ever more devious marketing wars: UPN is mulling the ...

UPN is sitting pretty with two eagerly anticipated series. Next week, the network has the sixth-season premiere of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which it grabbed from the WB. But this Wednesday, UPN ...

‘BUFFY the Vampire Slayer” came back to life this week – and took off running. The teen-cult hit jumped from the WB to UPN on Tuesday night with a two-hour debut that notched the second largest ...