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Lucie Salhany's played the game plenty. She's hip to the world of $300 million investment budgets, bigger than breeder-reactor power players, smokeand-mirrors dealmaking and that specifically Hollywood black magic that [...]

The show that arguably drew the biggest applause and laughs from last week's network upfront presentation audiences-largely comprising advertising buyers-was 'Everybody Hates Chris'' from UPN. That's especially good news for [...]

It's two weeks into the new TV season and ``Danger Ahead'' signs have popped up at several broadcast networks. ABC's trio of new dramas, NBC's freshman ``In-Laws'' comedy and a [...]

The 1995 repeal of the financial interest and syndication rules has turned out to be a financial bust for broadcast networks, whose profits are dwindling despite their increased program investments [...]

The upfront is over and the post-mortem has begun. Ad buyers have expressed concern about the large, wholesale scheduling changes on ABC, CBS and Fox being able to establish early [...]

Networks cancel midseason shows As part of an expected midseason purge, UPN and network overseer CBS decided to pull the plug on the repurposed run of ``The Amazing Race 2'' [...]

The new year in the TV business starts now-the second week in January. That's because this is when the winter TV press tour starts its two-week orgy of network spin [...]

LOS ANGELES--The NBC Television Network is contacting agencies about its media buying account, sources said. The network spent $120 million on measured media last year, and just over $100 million [...]

UPN and cable sibling TNN: The National Network have kicked off a venture that packages the Star Trek franchises airing on the two Viacom properties. CDW Computer Centers, the first [...]

Viacom draws on its vast resources to tout fall season Two years ago, few thought UPN would even survive. Now parent Viacom is pulling out all the stops, and putting [...]

UPN chief Dean Valentine said, in a Los Angeles TV-critics meeting, that his network, which is adding Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell from The WB, will beat The WB [...]

In an effort to flip WB affiliates to their side, UPN executives are circulating a presentation that argues that UPN's slightly older-skewing demo profile, described as a balance of men [...]

Don't look for UPN to run clips of Buffy The Vampire Slayer's fifth season this summer. The WB, which is airing repeats this summer but losing the show to UPN [...]

NEW YORK In a unique arrangement, MGM and UPN will split the advertising sales revenue for a Saturday afternoon block of MGM movies that will debut on UPN late this [...]

NEW YORK ABC, CBS, WB, Fox and UPN have all begun to seal some initial deals for advertising time in the upcoming season, signaling the marketplace could be about to [...]

UPN executives urge affiliates to make the network their top promotion priority this coming fall Promotion and preemption: Do a lot of the first and less of the latter. That [...]

UPN took its up-with-UPN-and-unity act on the road last week, in a four-day, four-city blitz designed to increase affiliate solidarity coming off the network's best-ever ratings season and going into [...]

NEW FACES AND BIG HOPES FOR THE FALL In a business where new series can come and go at the speed of an El Duque fastball. even an eternal optimist [...]

UPN's prospects in the upfront marketplace got a big boost last month when Viacom paid top dollar to pry the popular 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' series away from rival network […]

Prime-time sitcom block is attracting big-name sponsorships UPN has signed a marketing deal with Heineken that will dub it the 'official beer' of the network's Monday-night prime-time schedule. And starting [...]

Looking to deliver a strong start to the fall season and ignoring for a moment that Fox may steal all its affiliates, UPN last Friday sent its 130-plus primary affiliates [...]

HOLLYWOOD UPN has smacked down a new hard-core on-air image in time for May sweeps. NBC and Fox branding vets Jim Cahill and Jim Atkinson created the new branding package, […]

UPN got off to a very slow start, but a new focus on young males has paid off for the weblet -- and for its high-profile president AFTER struggling in [...]

The light infantry of the television broadcast battleground, UPN and The WB, ended the Winter Press Tour last week with reports on their strengths and strategies. Perhaps better able to [...]

Though not as attention-getting as the AOL-Time Warner deal, the UPN network this week is implementing the first stage of a new Internet strategy tied to specific shows. When the [...]

Fox says `cut' on `Action' The edgy sitcom 'Action' got the ax last week, according to Fox executives, with the show's final two episodes airing last Thursday night. Fox has [...]

UPN is trying to sell uniqueness of 'Star Trek' spinoff's audience After selling out its Monday-night comedy block and Thursday's WWF Smack-down, the UPN sales department is now focused on [...]

Los Angeles Looking to kick off its first off-UPN series with a bang, Paramount Domestic Television plans to use theme weeks to promote ``Star Trek: Voyager'' from its Sept. 13 [...]

UPN is taking steps to make sure the young male viewers it hopes to attract are counted by Nielsen Media Research. The network may go so far as to buy […]

UPN wants to push the envelope in its promotional effort to lure young male viewers to its fall schedule, led by the controversial 'WWF Smackdown!' wrestling show. In addition to […]

UPN wants to push the envelope in its promotional effort to lure young male viewers to its new season shows, led by the controversial ``WWF Smackdown!'' wrestling show. In addition [...]

UPN is taking steps to make sure that the young male viewers it hopes to attract are counted by Nielsen Media Research. The network may go so far as to [...]

* IN GREEN BAY, WIS., THE LOCAL HIGH-school quarterback or point guard often becomes a household name before the season has begun. That kind of high-school sports fever in the [...]

UPN has given a green light to 13 episodes of another Bruce Nash reality series. The series, tentatively titled I Dare You!, will showcase over-the-top stunts. Nash already produces reality [...]

It was mission accomplished for UPN on Thursday as the net successfully launched its critically hailed laffer 'Everybody Hates Chris.' High-profile comedy, kicking off a revamped night for the net, [...]

Prime-time ratings for UPN, like its broadcast network brethren, are down significantly through the first four weeks of the season. But UPN's Monday lineup of ethnic sitcoms--and its successful expansion [...]

(Series; UPN; Thurs. Sept. 11; 8 p.m.) Filmed in Los Angeles by Telepictures Prods. Executive producers, Steve Harvey, Madeleine Smithberg. Rushion McDonald; director, Chuck Vinson; coordinating producers, Gil Lopez; supervising [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- Familiar favorites topped the ratings for the first full week of television's summer season, as the nets slowly began introducing original fare. NBC's talent show 'Fame' got off [...]

Get ready for some 'March Madness!' Only this year, the moniker--traditionally used to describe CBS' three-week coverage of the NCAA men's basketball championships--could apply to all the broadcast networks, as [...]

Network ratings dip in face of season's sitcom glut Fifteen years ago, the TV industry pronounced the death of the situation comedy. Today, comedies are not only alive and kicking, [...]

In the pilot of his new fall series for UPN, Hit, Andrew Dice Clay swaggers across the screen playing a character very similar to Andrew Dice Clay. He insults women [...]

Kids programming is becoming an important strategic weapon for formulating the entire image of a TV network. For the new Warner Bros. and United Paramount Networks, being kids cool is [...]