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 ...

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.

NEW YORK - 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.

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 ...