UPN and its weblet rival, the WB, have competed on generally equal footing among viewers since both started broadcasting in 1995. But the WB has what UPN has always lacked: an identity. With the help ...

LOS ANGELES — One of the biggest success stories of the TV season involves UPN (United Paramount Network) and how, in just a few months, it has won the loyalty of teen boys and young men. UPN’s effort ...

UPN may be the younger sibling of CBS — but don’t call it a farm team for the Eye, weblet topper Dawn Ostroff admonished critics Thursday. Speaking to reporters at UPN’s portion of the TV Critics Assn ...

NEW YORK - UPN and its weblet rival, The WB, have competed on generally equal footing among viewers since both started broadcasting in 1995. But The WB has what UPN has always lacked: an identity.

If all politics is local, it could be said that all broadcasting is local too. At least, that's the way the pendulum may be swinging as broadcast stations nationwide compete more vigorously against ...

WHEN United Paramount Networks and Warner Bros. launched their respective UPN and WB wanna-be networks in January 1995, UPN looked to have the edge more stations with stronger broadcast signals, and ...

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, ...