Speculation as to the future of the series came to an end on February 2, 2005, when UPN announced the series had been cancelled and its final episode would air on Friday, May 13, 2005.

As a result of the lack of viewership, UPN operated on a loss and had lost $ 800 million by 2000.

This is mainly because The WB had The WB 100 + Station Group, of group of cable-only stations in markets below the top 100, and UPN did not have such a service.

UPN had approximately 143 full-power owned-and-operated or primary affiliate stations in the U. S. and another 65 stations aired some UPN programming as secondary affiliates.

In its later years, as part of the network's desire to maintain its own unique identity with its own unique shows, UPN had a policy of " not picking up other networks ' scraps ", which was a strong argument when fan pressure was generated in 2004 for them to pick up Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which had been dropped from The WB.

As of January 2006, UPN had no plans of returning kids programming to the network, but it became a moot point due to its merger with The WB creating The CW.

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

WPCW Channel 19 in Pittsburgh ( formerly WNPA ) originally branded itself as " UPN 19 ", but changed over to " UPN Pittsburgh " soon after the UPN logo change, making it one of the few that had carried both standardization styles.

The station had disaffiliated from the network in 1998 for eight months ( previously it was " UPN 24 ") in a compensation dispute.

The XFL had impressive television coverage for an upstart league, with three games televised each week on NBC, UPN, and TNN.

He was also a co-star of the Fox TV series Get a Life from 1991 to 1992, and he had a recurring role as sports editor Stuart Franklin on the Fox / UPN TV series Between Brothers from 1997 to 1999.

" Fan reaction was to organize letter-writing campaigns, online petitions, blood and food drives, advertisements in trade magazines and via mobile billboards, and attempts to lobby other networks ( UPN was a favorite target, as it had already picked up Buffy ).

Fox became the third broadcast network, following PAX and UPN, to completely abandon kids ' programming, and has replaced the programming with a two-hour block of infomercials called Weekend Marketplace ; several stations, like they did for 4KidsTV, have been allowed by the network to decline to carry it and allowed them to shop it to another station in the market, especially those stations which had never carried Fox Kids to begin with in the Fox affiliate switch of 1994.

The WB Television Network shut down on September 17, 2006, and merged with UPN ( which had shut down two days earlier ) to form The CW.

Although teen fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel both ( Roswell, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, would end up being revived by rival network UPN ).

* Seven Days, a UPN Television Series, had an episode called The Collector, a serial killer who chloroformed and kidnapped women including the show's heroine Dr. Olga Vukavich ( Justine Vail ).

Casting director Patrick Rush found the role of Ryan Atwood particularly hard to cast and only invited Benjamin McKenzie to an audition after Fox had made them aware of the young actor after his unsuccessful audition for a UPN sitcom.

In addition, UPN had been able to hold on to the ratings from Thursday nights, most notably with comedian Chris Rock's sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

Star Trek: Voyager was produced to launch UPN, a television network planned by Paramount.

UPN quietly went off the air on September 15, three days prior to the launch of The CW ; WWE SmackDown was the last official program ( although some affiliates aired the optional weekend encore block ), ending its existence after 11 years.

As a result, the last two weeks of UPN programming did not air on the Fox-owned stations.

In its last three seasons, UPN was one of only two of the major broadcast networks ( Pax TV ( now Ion Television ) was the other ) not to air a children's programming block on weekend mornings.

In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block ( later ABC Kids ) in place of the teen series.

Some Fox stations decided to carry over Fox's 4kids. tv block to a UPN, WB, or independent station, so the Fox affiliate could air general entertainment or local news programming on Saturday mornings.

* Talkshow with Spike Feresten was reportedly to air on UPN ; it debuted on FOX one day after UPN's closure.

Also, the on air IDs in the mid 1990s were the UPN shapes evolving into the next shape then the full logo followed by a blue bar appearing, which has 2 variants.

It was set to air in early 1978 on a proposed Paramount Television Service ( a forerunner to UPN ).

KSTW began to air UPN programming on June 30, 1997 along with sitcoms, movies, cartoons and a few first-run syndicated shows.

This move left WGNX with cartoons and sitcoms that it would no longer have time to air as a CBS affiliate, so it sold some of its syndicated programming to WVEU, which became the UPN affiliate ( while WATL joined the WB ), and was later sold to Viacom, who changed its calls to WUPA.

It did try to affiliate with UPN from 1997 – 1999, but refused to air much of UPN's programming because it found the shows and commercials offensive.

The cities with alternate independent, UPN or WB stations, Fox contracted to air the Fox Kids block on these other stations so that their O & O and affiliate stations were free to program all of their hours for older audiences or news.

The schedules of either network would not be constant until fall 1999, when the WB decided to air shows from Sunday through Friday and UPN would air Monday through Friday.

In November 2007, the network also had their first event program, airing the Vibe Awards, which moved from the now-defunct UPN network and did not take place in 2006 due to the new CW network declining to air the program.

KCEB first signed on the air on July 27, 2003 as an affiliate of UPN that was broadcast on UHF channel 54.

For eight months, the station returned to being independent ( opting the air syndicated movies instead ) and Milwaukee was left without a UPN affiliate.

For some time after affiliating with UPN, WSBK continued to air primarily cartoons and classic sitcoms.

Nonetheless, WSBK continued to carry UPN programming until September 15, 2006, the network's final night on the air.

WSBK finally launched a local 10 p. m. newscast on October 25, 1993, by way of the WBZ-produced WBZ News 4 on TV 38, competing against both WLVI and a New England Cable News ( NECN )- produced program on WFXT ; this production left the air August 6, 1995, soon after the sale of WSBK to Paramount, as it was felt that the WBZ News 4 branding was incompatible with the then-new " UPN 38 " branding.

This newscast left the air on March 29, 2002 in favor of a return to a 10 p. m. newscast, this time as Nightcast at 10 on UPN 38, which launched April 1.

When XHUPN went on the air, the station asked those cable providers to drop KCOP from their lineups ; XHUPN adopted the " UPN 13 " moniker thereafter.

The station continued to air UPN programming until August 3, 2000, when new Fredericksburg station KCWX ( then KBEJ ) went on the air on channel 2.