LOS ANGELES -- CBS and UPN will be joined in one unit by owner Viacom Inc., a change viewers may not notice but which the company hopes will cut costs and improve ad sales. It was announced separately ...

NEW YORK — Three Viacom-owned networks — TNN, CBS and UPN — have banded together to buy exclusive rights to the first 15 James Bond theatricals from MGM. The parties declined comment on the deal, but ...

2003-07-24 04:00:00 PDT Hollywood-- Having already shot UPN dead a couple of seasons ago, I find it a little awkward and strange to contemplate its existence now. But that was before The Network That ...

Ever since Viacom took full control of part-time television network UPN and folded it under the management structure of its CBS Television unit, the press have speculated on all sorts of ...

Now that Viacom Inc. has snapped up L.A.’s last independent VHF station and created yet another local television duopoly the waiting game begins. Specifically, what will the New York-based media giant ...

After years of being mired in second-class "weblet" status, UPN may be stepping up to become a full-fledged network. At least that's what Viacom President and Chief Operating Officer Mel Karmazin ...

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.

"Sex and the City" calls it quits tomorrow, just as things are getting really hot for "Amish in the City." And not in a good way. Yesterday morning, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) staged a news conference on ...

This Saturday, John Long will receive the Silver Circle Award from the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his "significant contributions to the Washington, ...

The Los Angeles Times has today reported that Viacom, parent company of CBS and UPN, is interested in purchasing KCAL Channel 9 for $600m from Young Broadcasting. KCAL is currently unaffiliated with ...

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that Viacom is buying BET Holdings, the owner of the nation's only cable-TV network specifically aimed at African-Americans. Viacom will pay 2.5 billion dollars in stock ...