UPN topper Dean Valentine threw down the ratings gauntlet Monday, predicting that the Smackdown net will dominate its Frog net rival next year. Valentine went on a limb and made the claim “based on ...

UPN comedy “One on One,” the first new broadcast network series to bow this season, opened to solid ratings Monday. According to Nielsen, the laffer averaged 4.9 million viewers and a 1.9/5 in adults ...

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 ...

Your heart has to go out to poor UPN. Okay, maybe not your heart. But since striking its deal with the Devil two years ago for “WWF Smackdown” wrestling, UPN has been tromping happily across the TV ...

All the broadcast networks had to battle the languid economy in the 2001 upfront. But UPN had at least one other major hurdle: uncertainty about its future. Enter advertiser wariness. "Last year, ...

PASADENA, Calif., July 16 -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is dead and well at UPN. "Buffy" lead Sarah Michelle Gellar made a surprise appearance today at UPN's Q&A session on the series, pulling in the ...

UPN jumped to fourth place last night with coverage of the 2001 Source Hip-Hop Awards. ABC took first, however, with 6.8m (11%) during primetime. NBC came second with 6.4m (10%), followed by CBS with ...

UPN will stagger the premiere of its 2001-02 primetime schedule beginning Thursday, August 16 and continuing through Tuesday, October 9, it has been announced. UPN will stagger the premiere of its ...