NEW YORK — The World Wrestling Federation will produce “WWF Divas,” a one-hour primetime entertainment special for UPN in March that’ll be similar to the annual TV edition of the “Sports Illustrated ...

The centerpiece of UPN’s new strategy is a Thursday-night pro-wrestling show “WWF Smackdown! ” that will attempt to cash in on the wave of the phenomenon’s surging popularity. In an unusual ...

Professional wrestling is not violent. Professional wrestling is not sexist. And the tooth fairy will lift UPN out of sixth place. Despite slams from TV critics, UPN president Dean Valentine insists ...

It’s somehow fitting that UPN the Would-be Network That Couldn’t (or perhaps more fairly, Hasn’t) waited until the tide was running out to try to ride the wave of professional wrestling. And it’s ...

It’s a rare case of the cable network tail wagging the broadcast network dog: UPN has pulled its Sept. 6 edition of “WWF Smackdown” from its usual Thursday slot to make sure that armies of young men ...

UPN owes a lot to “WWF Smackdown!” (7 p.m. Thursday, WPWR-Ch. 50), which has targeted Salt Lake City as the site for its first-ever live broadcast (the show is also scheduled to go live next Thursday ...

May 29 -- Round 1 goes to the World Wrestling Federation. Variety reports a federal judge in New York last week threw out a motion filed by the Parents Television Council, which was seeking to have ...

NEW YORK --The XFL pro-football league has folded after only one season, throwing its partners NBC and the World Wrestling Federation for a $70 million loss. In a conference call with reporters, WWF ...

You want a fight?In this corner, the most talked about, boundary-pushing series of the season, the way-inside Hollywood satire and critical favorite, Fox Broadcasting’s “Action,” a foul-mouthed ...

PRO-WRESTLING’S WWF is taking a dive for MTV’s Video Music Awards this week. “WWF Smackdown!,” the highest rated show on Viacom-owned UPN, aired last night instead of Thursday thanks to a request from ...

As the two upstart networks unveiled new fall programs, executives fielded questions about diversity and violence. When plopped into this land of Star-TEC cell phones and Rolex watches, it's tough to ...