On Friday, May 13, the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise aired on the UPN network.

FORBES

When the UPN network also backed away, its pullback sealed the XFL's fate.

FORBES: Top Of The News: XFL Exterminated

As a result, not even the UPN network, owned by Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people) would agree to broadcast the spectacle.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Then in late 1994 both Time Warner's WB and United Paramount Network (UPN) went seeking affiliates for their fledgling networks.

FORBES: Baseball out, vampires in

Whedon moved the show from the Fox network to the smaller UPN station following a dispute over a money.

BBC: Sarah Michelle Gellar

But just when I thought the CW, the new broadcast network created via a merger of the CBS 's UPN and Time Warner 's WB, might not be ready for prime time, I entered the Madison Square Garden theater.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The upshot--all but two of the shows the network will roll out next fall have already been airing on either UPN or the WB.

FORBES: CW's Deja Vu