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 ...

Hoping to cut costs and boost advertising at its unprofitable UPN television network, Viacom Inc. said Monday that it will combine CBS and UPN under one management team in January. As a result of the ...

The UPN and WB networks are undergoing management shifts at their entertainment divisions, with UPN President Tom Nunan and WB Co-President Susanne Daniels preparing to exit. Nunan will leave as ...

UPN Entertainment topper Tom Nunan is calling it quits. Nunan and UPN prexy-CEO Dean Valentine are still discussing the terms of Nunan’s exit, but Nunan is expected to depart the grappler net by the ...

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 ...

CENSOR AND SENSIBILITY After the 1999 debut of ”Shasta McNasty,” we suspected that UPN may have had no standards, but who knew they actually had no standards and practices? The home of ”Smackdown!” ...

ADVERTISERS and network execs are preparing to drop yet another bomb in their escalating invasion of prime-time TV shows. It’s another twist in the ever more devious marketing wars: UPN is mulling the ...

UPN owes a lot to “WWF Smackdown!” (7 p.m. Thursday, WPWR-Ch. 50), which has targeted Salt Lake City as the site for its first-ever live broadcast (the show is also scheduled to go live next Thursday ...

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 ...

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 ...