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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...