Mopower, are you watching Enterprise on WHO, Channel 13 (between new and classic Saturday Night Live)? The only UPN shows they carry are Enterprise and WWE Smackdown. I'd see promos for various UPN shows during the commercial breaks on Enterprise and wondered where I could sample them. TV Guide's print edition stopped listing early morning programming and I couldn't find Veronica Mars, Kevin Hill, etc., in online TV listings. I e-mailed WHO in December (2004) and received this reply.
There is no UPN affiliate in the Des Moines market. We at WHO-TV picked up Star Trek: Enterprise and WWE Smackdown after the local WB affiliate, KPWB, dropped them after offering the shows for two years. We believed that it would be a shame to not have these shows available after they had begun to build an audience. As a NBC affiliate we do not have that many timeslots for other programming, so we are not able to present any other UPN programs. Perhaps soon a full time UPN station could be established, at which time more UPN programming would become available for the Des Moines area. Currently I do not know of any plans to have that happen in the immediate future.
If you're watching on another station, try e-mailing them.
BigDan
04-16-05 11:59 AM
Originally Posted by the big train
And I imagine that the WB or UPN won't be acquiring NFL broadcasting rights anytime soon.
Even before they got the NFC in 1994, FOX was further along than UPN. They'd had a few breakout shows prior to then that got the network a good deal of attention. UPN hasn't really had that (though they do have some hits in the African-American community).
When the WB and UPN started, I thought UPN had the real edge since they were starting with the new Star Trek show while the WB had stuff like Platypus Man.
Legolas
04-16-05 12:55 PM
Originally Posted by BigDan
When the WB and UPN started, I thought UPN had the real edge since they were starting with the new Star Trek show while the WB had stuff like Platypus Man.
They also had a TV show with a bonified TV star (Richard Dean Anderson in Legend), which like any smart first year network, they dropped after one season. And then Star Trek: Voyager turned out to be godawful. UPN will never get better.
story
04-16-05 01:13 PM
The Wikipedia article seems to be accurate to what I remember went down.
