On September 26, 2001, the premiere episode of Enterprise, " Broken Bow ", aired on UPN with an estimated 12. 54 million viewers.

In 2001, UPN heavily promoted the premiere of Enterprise with a song by The Calling, " Wherever You Will Go ".

UPN bought Buffy the Vampire Slayer from 20th Century Fox in 2001 when The WB chose not to renew it when the license fees skyrocketed.

UPN aired only one regular network sports event program: the much-hyped XFL in 2001, as part of a package from co-creator Vince McMahon which also included what was then WWF SmackDown!

When the series moved broadcast networks from the WB to UPN in 2001, some of the restrictions were relaxed.

Later, in 2001, Fox bought several stations owned by Chris-Craft Industries and its subsidiaries BHC Communications and United Television ( most of these were UPN affiliates, although one later became a Fox O & O ).

It was produced by UPN from 1998 to 2001.

Seven Days which aired on the UPN Network from October 7, 1998 – May 29, 2001, & starred Jonathan LaPaglia as Lt. Frank B. Parker ; aired an episode entitled " Vows " that aired on Wednesday October 28, 1998.

The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning programming block.

Not until Buffy moved from the WB to UPN in 2001 were Tara and Willow shown in sexual situations.

NBC officials wanted to move the XFL games to afternoons after the first season ( 2001 ) due to dismal ratings, and when, somewhat to McMahon's surprise and disappointment the United Paramount Network ( UPN ) wanted to follow suit, the league was then folded and the team disbanded.

In 2001 Fox's parent company, the News Corporation, became the new owner of Baltimore's UPN affiliate WUTB ( the former WMET-TV ) through its purchase of Chris-Craft Industries.

A month later, Fox, which had bought WUTB in 2001, announced the formation of MyNetworkTV, with WUTB and the other Fox-owned UPN affiliates as the nuclei.

Moesha is an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001.

* Manhunt ( 2001 TV series ), a reality TV series on UPN criticized for restaging events affecting the outcome

Fox Television Stations purchased KUTP ( channel 45 ) in 2001 as part of its acquisition of United Television ( which had a 50 % stake in UPN, until Fox bought the station ) forming the Phoenix market's second television duopoly.

The success of Star Trek: The Next Generation led to further Star Trek series which took place within the same time frame: firstly Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( 1993 – 99 ) and later UPN ’ s Star Trek: Voyager ( 1994 – 2001 ) and Star Trek: Enterprise ( 2001 – 05 ).

In 2001, KDKA-TV began producing a 10 p. m. newscast on UPN Pittsburgh.

Starting with the original six stations, Fox Television Stations gained the bulk of its group through two large transactions: the 1997 purchase of New World Communications, succeeding a 1993 business deal between the two companies which led to all of New World's stations switching from other networks to Fox during 1994-95 ; and the 2001 acquisition of the Chris-Craft / United group, which gave Fox ownership of several stations then affiliated with the UPN network, and also created several duopolies ( two stations in the same market owned by the same company ).

However, the station continued to omit the mention of UPN from its own branding, and called itself " Channel 24 " until the beginning of the 2001 – 2002 TV season, when it readopted the " UPN 24 " branding, one of only a very few UPN stations to do so, as UPN branding was required by the network.

In 2001 Bombardier acquired Adtranz ( DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ), a manufacturer of trains which were widely used throughout Germany and Great Britain.

Antrim, and its parent Sunquest Information Systems, was acquired by Misys in 2001.

Following the Japan 2001 festival, Kew acquired a Japanese wooden house called a minka.

The pitching staff again proved solid, with five starters having 12 wins or more, including Jason Schmidt, who the Giants acquired in 2001 from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

For example: Activision acquired Raven ( 1997 ), Neversoft ( 1999 ), Z-Axis ( 2001 ), Treyarch ( 2001 ), Luxoflux ( 2002 ), Shaba ( 2002 ), Infinity Ward ( 2003 ) and Vicarious Visions ( 2005 ).

In June 2001, the comic was acquired as part of a £ 6. 4 million deal by I Feel Good ( IFG ), a company belonging to ex-Loaded editor James Brown, and increased in frequency to ten times a year.

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

Disney acquired FFC in 2001 and its name was changed again, to ABC Family.

The Informix products were originally developed by Informix Corporation, whose Informix Software subsidiary was acquired by IBM in 2001.

* Dynamix in Eugene, Oregon, founded 1984, acquired August 1990, closed August 14, 2001.

* High Moon Studios in San Diego, California, founded in 2001, acquired by Vivendi Games in January 2006.

WebCrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2001 after Excite, ( which was then called Excite @ Home ), went bankrupt.

In 2001 Nu-Wood was acquired by the Beil Family who operated Nu-Wood building a strong presence in Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

The most recent addition is Harlow Carr, acquired by the merger of the Northern Horticultural Society with the RHS in 2001.

The acquisition of Digex ( DIGX ) in June 2001 was also complex ; Worldcom acquired Digex's corporate parent, Intermedia Communications, and then sold all of Intermedia's non-Digex assets to Allegiance Telecom.

Although Eric Bischoff was nearing a deal to purchase the company complete, in March 2001, WWF Entertainment, Inc. acquired WCW from AOL Time Warner for a number reported to be around $ 7 million.

STATS, Inc., the company James joined, provided data and analysis to every major media outlet before being acquired by Fox Sports in 2001.

The Islanders acquired Alexei Yashin ( left ) prior to the 2001 – 02 NHL season | 2001 – 02 season.

The Rangers also acquired Pavel Bure late in the 2001 – 02 season from the Florida Panthers.

Before the playoffs, the Avalanche acquired star defenseman Rob Blake and center Steven Reinprecht from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Adam Deadmarsh, Aaron Miller and their first-round 2001 Draft pick.

Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

In November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.