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 ...

Coming soon, from the network that brought you “WWE Smackdown”: Media barons Sumner “Red Bull” Redstone and Rupert “Mad Dog” Murdoch step into center stage and battle for the soul of underdog weblet ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIACOM TO TAKE CONTROL OF UPN: Viacom Inc. has made a deal to acquire full control of the UPN television network. A New York State Supreme Court judge last week let stand a legal provision Viacom had ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

For Viacom Inc., its advertising picture is beginning to look like a tale of two companies. The company's overall second-quarter results for its continuing operations posted a 6% rise in net income to ...

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 ...