In 1998, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High, The Berenstain Bears and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and weekends aiming the programs at teenagers.

However, Angel was axed by The WB the year after Buffy went off UPN.

However, the UPN affiliation went to KIRO when that station lost its CBS affiliation to KSTW ( which was eventually sold to Paramount Pictures ), and KTZZ agreed to affiliate with The WB instead.

However, in the case of Philadelphia, the new network's affiliation went to the city's UPN station, WPSG.

WCGV lost the Fox affiliation and briefly went independent again on December 4, 1994 ; however, it did not take the CBS affiliation dropped from WITI ( which went to WDJT-TV ), as the station would become a charter UPN affiliate in January 1995, following a pattern in which many former Fox affiliates in markets where New World owned a station decided to join either UPN or fellow upstart network WB.

She went on to star in the NBC series " First Years ", followed by playing the title character in the sitcom " Abby " on UPN.

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.

This resulted in the first " duopoly " operation in the Portland TV market, and precipitated an affiliation switch on September 2 in which the market's Fox affiliation went to KPTV ( the higher-rated station of the two ), and the UPN affiliation went to KPDX.

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.

On June 5, 2006, KPNZ removed UPN programming from its schedule in retaliation for being passed over by both The CW ( which went to former WB affiliate KUWB, now KUCW ) and another new netlet, News Corporation's MyNetworkTV ( which at the time went to KJZZ-TV, which has since reverted to independent status ).

WOOT was affiliated with UPN until it went silent in 2000 due to technical issues.

The Paramount Television studio, Paramount Parks and UPN was made part of CBS in the split and the remaining businesses were sold off or parceled out to other operating groups.

Shortly after the announcement of The CW network's pending launch, Fox Television Stations immediately dropped all network branding from its UPN affiliates ( all of whom also stopped promoting the network's programming ), in response to being left off the initial list of The CW's charter affiliates in favor of Tribune Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations.

This was due to Paramount ( although Chris-Craft owned the station ) using SyndEx to keep the UPN shows off the national WWOR feed, although rival Superstation WGN ( now WGN America ) showed The WB network programming on their national feed until nationwide terrestrial coverage was deemed sufficient in 1999.

It was revealed in late July 2005 that UPN had pressured WWE to keep Hassan off of their network, effectively removing him from SmackDown !.

In 2002, WCFN broke off and became the area's UPN affiliate.

In January 1998, UPN began talks with The Walt Disney Company to run a daily two-hour Disney kids block but the talks with Disney were called off a week later do to a dispute over branding the block and deciding how much E / I programming Disney would provide, UPN then began talks with Nickelodeon At which time UPN made a deal with Saban Entertainment to program the block on Sunday mornings.

Before this network change, WB programming in Northeastern Wisconsin was previously seen either through cable systems that carried WGN and / or Milwaukee's WVTV or during off hours on UPN affiliate WACY-TV ( Kids ' WB programming aired as part of WACY's children's lineup ).

When Viacom spun off its broadcasting properties into CBS Corporation at the end of 2005, WGNT and the other UPN O & Os became part of the new company.

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

UPN had planned to air a second season of XFL in 2002, but it also demanded a reduction in the airtime of SmackDown!

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.

Later, reruns aired on other Viacom properties, including Comedy Central and UPN.

After Disney acquired Saban during the third series, the first three series moved to the cable network ABC Family, while the fourth ( Frontier ) premiered on UPN.

Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in 2006, UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country.

The Emmy winning show aired on Fox then UPN for 3 seasons.

Low ratings prompted UPN to cancel Star Trek: Enterprise on February 2, 2005, but the network allowed the series to complete its fourth season.

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

This three-part arc, which presaged the inevitable Romulan-Earth War of 2156, received the lowest Nielsen ratings of the entire series, leading UPN to cancel it on February 2, 2005.

Star Trek: Voyager aired on UPN and was the network's second longest-running series.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

UPN shut down on September 15, 2006, and merged with The WB, which was shut down two days later, to form The CW.

The UPN colorful shapes logo, used from 1995 to 1998, and in various versions from 1998 to 2002 ( though the " primary colors " variant continued on affiliates and print until 2002 ).

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

Viacom also aimed to relaunch UPN as Paramount Network, using a logo based on the famous Paramount Pictures mountain logo and the " P " triangle of the UPN logo, which already stood for Paramount, as the new network logo.

UPN eventually outbid The WB for the shows and aired them together on Tuesday nights until Roswell ended its run in 2002 and Buffy the following year in 2003.

However, the Fox-owned UPN affiliates ended all ties to the network on August 31.

Buffy continued on UPN for two more seasons.

UPN also bought the rights to broadcast television shows Clueless ( formerly on ABC ), The Hughleys ( formerly on ABC ), and Roswell ( formerly on The WB ).

In the summer of 2005, UPN aired R U the Girl, in which R & B group TLC searched for a woman to join them on a new song.