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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 11 -- XFL, we hardly knew ye. The extreme football league has been crushed into oblivion after only one season, losing $70 million in the process. The XFL, co-sponsored by NBC and the World ...