How UPN Ushered in a Golden Decade of Black TV — and Then Was Merged Out of Existence
THR, Esq. 2022-02-16
Summary:
On Jan. 24, 2006, Leslie Moonves, then-chairman of the CBS Corporation, and Barry Meyer, his counterpart at Warner Bros. Entertainment, held a joint news conference to announce that their respective television networks — UPN (United Paramount Network) and The WB — were struggling financially and would merge to form a new channel called The CW. […]