IF WE WERE into reading tea leaves during the winter press tour, critics would have known days before the announcement that UPN and WB weren’t long for this world. Of course, few of us would have ...

UPN television President Dean Valentine is leaving the company effective immediately, UPN parent Viacom Inc. announced Friday. The move at the top of the fifth-largest broadcast network--which is ...

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 by executives ...

When the broadcast television season ends this month, two fledgling networks that have battled for more than a decade -- UPN and the WB -- will cease to exist, and from their ashes will rise one ...

UPN launches its fall season Wednesday with a slightly weaker distribution system than a year ago, but network officials don’t expect to take much of a hit. Not only did UPN migrate to weaker UHF ...