The UPN and WB television networks plan to shut down this fall and fuse their programming into the CW, a new broadcast network aimed at young audiences that could bring together shows ranging from ...

News Corp.-owned UPN stations that are getting the old heave-ho when UPN and WB merge this fall -- including our market's WDCA -- will become part of what's being billed as a "mini network" offering a ...

One of many questions left unanswered by Tuesday’s announcement that two small television networks, UPN and WB, will merge to form The CW network is the future of the UPN outlet in Denver, which now ...

NEW YORK (AP) Two small, struggling television networks, UPN and WB, will merge to form a new network called The CW, executives from the companies that own them said Tuesday. The announcement was made ...

Take one UPN, add one WB, and what do you get? Your guess is as good as “experts” in the rapidly expanding field of television. CBS Corp. announced last week that CBS’s UPN and Time Warner’s WB will ...

IF UPN can live without Ch. 9, then Ch. 9 can live without UPN. Fox-owned Ch. 9 yesterday removed the “UPN” from its on-screen logo and renamed its nightly newscast, which is now called “9 News at 10” ...

News Corp is washing its hands of UPN, initially at least, with soaps. Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate is going with a pair of five-nights-a-week, one-hour English-language telenovelas to fill ...

The recent merging of the UPN and WB networks into the CW network will contribute to a significant decline in women and racial minority writers for television, according to preliminary findings ...

As it tilts more femme-centric, weblet UPN isn’t turning its back on wrestling. The CBS-owned network is in talks with World Wrestling Entertainment to renew its commitment to “Friday Night Smackdown.

UPN has enlisted Chris Rock and Will Smith to direct upcoming episodes of Rock’s “Everybody Hates Chris.” Rock, co-creator and executive producer of the show, is beginning work this week on an episode ...

PASADENA – UPN’s “Everybody Hates Chris,” one of the most critically acclaimed shows in the network’s history, has yet to be renewed for a second season. But Dawn Ostroff, president of UPN, brushed ...

As it tilts more femme-centric, weblet UPN isn’t turning its back on wrestling. The CBS-owned network is in talks with World Wrestling Entertainment to renew its commitment to “Friday Night Smackdown.