Editing UPN (section)

=== News programming ===
Like Fox and The WB, UPN never aired national morning or evening [[newscast]]s; however, several of its affiliates and owned-and-operated stations did produce their own local news programs. Several UPN affiliates ran a local newscast in the 10:00–11:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern and Pacific (9:00–10:00&nbsp;p.m. Central and Mountain Time) timeslot at some point during or throughout their affiliations with the network; there were also a few stations that produced a weekday morning newscast, although early evening newscasts were largely absent on most of these stations. The UPN affiliate body had fewer news-producing stations in comparison to stations aligned with the Big Three television networks (NBC, ABC and CBS) and considerably fewer than Fox and especially The WB. In several markets, the local UPN affiliate either outsourced news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market (either due to insufficient funds or studio space for production of their own newscasts, or in later years after the FCC permitted duopolies in markets with at least eight unique station owners in 2000, the station being operated through a legal duopoly or [[local marketing agreement|management agreement]] with a major network affiliate); other affiliates opted to carry syndicated programming in the hour following UPN's primetime programming lineup. For example, one of the largest O&O UPN affiliates in the country, [[WPWR-TV]], never aired news programming in its 11-year run. This is mainly due to Viacom and [[Chris-Craft Corporation|Chris Craft]]'s non-affiliation with the Chicago station.

When the network launched in January 1995, UPN automatically added six affiliates with functioning news departments through Chris-Craft/United Television and Viacom's respective affiliation deals with the network; all of those stations started their news operations as either [[Independent station (North America)|independent stations]] or during prior affiliations with other networks: WWOR-TV/Secaucus, New Jersey (New York City), KCOP-TV/Los Angeles, [[WKBD-TV]]/[[Detroit]], [[KPTV]]/[[Portland, Oregon]], [[KMSP-TV]]/[[Minneapolis]] and [[WTOG]]/[[Tampa, Florida]]. Two more stations would join them later on: [[KSTW]]/[[Seattle]], also owned by Viacom at the time, after it affiliated with UPN in 1997 through the reversal of a 1995 affiliation switch with CBS affiliate [[KIRO-TV]] (which also kept its news department as a UPN affiliate), and KMAX-TV/Sacramento, which joined UPN after being acquired by Viacom in 1998 and began producing newscasts shortly after its 1995 affiliation with The WB. KSTW and WTOG's news departments were shut down in 1998 due to cost-cutting measures mandated by Viacom; newscasts would briefly return to KSTW via a news sharing agreement with KIRO-TV between 2003 and 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title = News not Paramount |url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53395671.html |first = Dan |last = Trigoboff |periodical = Broadcasting & Cable |date = December 7, 1998 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155349/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53395671.html |archive-date = September 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = WTOG to Shutter News Operation |url = https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/1998/07/06/daily5.html |newspaper = [[American City Business Journals|Tampa Bay Business Journal]] |date = July 7, 1998 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040723143446/http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/1998/07/06/daily5.html |archive-date = July 23, 2004 }}</ref>

Not all of UPN's news-producing stations were owned by the two companies that formed the nuclei of the network's affiliate group; [[WUAB]]/[[Cleveland]], which started its news department in 1988, also continued its 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast as a UPN affiliate (it would begin producing newscasts for sister station [[WOIO|WOIO-TV]] in February 1995, after that station became a CBS affiliate; though WOIO eventually took over production of the newscast by 2002). [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]] affiliate [[WXBU|WLYH-TV]] briefly continued its newscasts after switching to UPN from CBS in 1995, until [[WHP-TV]] began operating the station under a [[local marketing agreement]] that fall. [[WFTC]]/Minneapolis continued to produce a late evening newscast after [[Fox Television Stations]] (which acquired KMSP-TV through the Chris-Craft purchase, and converted it into a Fox O&O) acquired the station from [[Clear Channel Communications]] and switched the station to UPN – it was moved to 10:00&nbsp;p.m. to avoid competing with KMSP's 9:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast until the WFTC newscast was canceled in June 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title = WFTC Drops Newscast at 10; KMSP Adds It |url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146555564.html |first = Deborah |last = Caulfield Rybak |newspaper = [[Star Tribune]] |location = Minneapolis |date = June 2, 2006 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924135521/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146555564.html |archive-date = September 24, 2015 }}</ref>

With the exception of KPTV and KMSP, both of which are now Fox stations, none of the former UPN affiliates that produced newscasts during their affiliation with the network continue to maintain an independent news department – despite license requirements imposed by the station's 1983 transfer of its license to Secaucus, New Jersey from New York City to cover New Jersey issues, WWOR-TV, which continued to produce news programming after coming under common ownership with Fox O&O [[WNYW]], shut down its news department in July 2013 and replaced its lone 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast with an outside produced program called ''Chasing New Jersey'', a move that resulted in calls by state politicians for the FCC to revoke Fox's license to operate the station.<ref>{{cite news |title = Fox Ends MY9 News, Will Replace it with an Interview Show |url = https://www.nj.com/business/2013/07/fox_ends_my9_news_will_replace.html |first = Alexi |last = Friedman |newspaper = [[The Star-Ledger]] |location = Newark, New Jersey |date = July 3, 2013 |access-date = July 4, 2013 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130705174357/http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/fox_ends_my9_news_will_replace.html |archive-date = July 5, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = Criticism Continues over WWOR's Cancellation of N.J. Newscast |url = https://www.nj.com/news/2013/07/criticism_continues_over_wwors_cancellation_of_nj_newcast.html |first = Peggy |last = McGlone |newspaper = The Star-Ledger |location = Newark, New Jersey |date = July 9, 2013 |access-date = July 11, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = 'Chasing New Jersey' News Show Fails to Win over Channel 9 Critics |url = https://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20130709/NJNEWS/307090041/-Chasing-New-Jersey-news-show-fails-win-over-Channel-9-critics?nclick_check=1 |first = Sergio |last = Bichao |newspaper = [[Courier News]] |location = Somerville, New Jeersey |date = July 9, 2013 |access-date = July 10, 2013 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141229235444/http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20130709/NJNEWS/307090041/-Chasing-New-Jersey-news-show-fails-win-over-Channel-9-critics?nclick_check=1 |archive-date = December 29, 2014 }}</ref> [[KTTV]] took over production of sister station KCOP's newscasts in 2007, before discontinuing news programming on that station in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |title = KCOP Cutting News from its Lineup |url = https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/kcop-cutting-news-from-its-lineup/101140/ |first = Kevin |last = Eck |website = [[AdWeek|TVSpy]] |date = August 9, 2013 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150922183955/http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/kcop-cutting-news-from-its-lineup/101140 |archive-date = September 22, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = KCOP to Drop News from the Lineup |url = http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/08/kcop_to_drop_news_from_th.php |first = Kevin |last = Roderick |newspaper = LA Observed |date = August 10, 2013 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131010103647/http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/08/kcop_to_drop_news_from_th.php |archive-date = October 10, 2013 }}</ref> KMAX's news department has since been merged with that of KOVR although it still produces a morning newscast separate from that station. WKBD shut down its news department (which was later shared with [[WWJ-TV]]) in December 2002, with its 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast continuing to be produced by ABC affiliate [[WXYZ-TV]] until its eventual cancellation in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title = CBS Drops News in Detroit |url = https://www.nexttv.com/news/cbs-drops-news-detroit-94621 |first = Dan |last = Trigoboff |periodical = Broadcasting & Cable |date = November 24, 2002 |access-date = September 2, 2015 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111804/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/cbs-drops-news-detroit/94621 |archive-date = September 24, 2015 }}</ref> CBS re-launched a news operation for both WWJ and WKBD under the umbrella title of ''CBS News Detroit'' in January 2023.