KSTW and KIRO have separate owners, even though they're affiliated with networks (UPN and CBS) owned by Viacom. "You'd want to have some distinction in terms of delineating your product," Lougee said.

KSTW won't operate with the kind of skeleton crew that hubbing requires. Instead, he said, Seattle's CW station will retain people in its business department, programming, engineering, creative ...

Now that UPN has announced plans to drop its afternoon kids block this August, the netlet is in danger of being reclassified as a "limited network" by Nielsen Media Research.

NEWS BRIEF: Program Partners, the US syndicator of Da Vinci’s Inquest and Degrassi: The Next Generation, has hired Ryan Craig as its director of research and regional sales rep. Craig joins from ...