Last year’s great big NATPE hope turned out to be a great big syndication dud. A demand for more syndicated fare in the wake of the WB-UPN shutdown never materialized, despite early hopes to the ...

2002-07-16 04:00:00 PDT Pasadena-- It's not exactly Ali-Frazier, but it's on with the WB and UPN. A war of words, that is. You couldn't have picked two better networks for it. While most executives in ...

That Dawn Ostroff, she's a coy one. A week ago, she sat before the nation's TV critics as UPN's entertainment president, with little to display for midseason beyond "Get This Party Started," a wan ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Two small, long-struggling television networks _ UPN and The WB _ will shut down this fall and programming from both will be used to launch a new network aimed mainly at young and ...

Despite the fact that two out of the 16 “geeks” on the reality show Beauty and the Geek have gone to the U of C, most students here probably don’t even know what channel the show is on. As of ...

In the mid-90s, the landscape of television began to shift dramatically with the launch of two new networks: The WB and UPN. Prior to this, viewers primarily had access to ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which ...

NEW YORK - Two small, long-struggling television networks - UPN and The WB - will shut down this fall and programming from both will be used to launch a new network aimed mainly at young and minority ...

NEW YORK - In the 11 years that the WB and UPN have both struggled for life, it wasn't hard to see that between them they probably had enough assets to make one strong television network. The business ...

While their respective television networks announced a marriage Tuesday, the Quad-City affiliates of The WB Network and UPN are pondering whether each will be taken in or left out in the cold. In ...

CBS Corp. and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shutter the UPN and WB networks to form a new fifth broadcasting network called The CW, to be launched in the fall of 2006. The announcement ...

Two small networks that have struggled for more than 10 years to court younger TV audiences are merging in hopes of finally competing with ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. The new network will have the 50-50 ...

HOLLYWOOD — As dramas and reality programs devour more and more of the real estate on primetime skeds, the state of the situation comedy has become no laughing matter. But, rather quietly, both UPN ...