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UPN is sinking and now its owner, Viacom, is looking for help from its top TV affiliates, which happen to be owned by rival media empire Fox.
Amid a steep ratings slide at the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" network, Les Moonves, the CBS boss who runs UPN, has started talking to the Fox Television Station Group, in hopes of locking in a multiyear affiliation agreement, sources said.
The current deal expires at the end of the next TV season. But Moonves wants a head start because he needs (...)