CBS, UPN Launch Deal With Clear Channel

CBS and UPN television networks, both owned by Viacom Inc., announced new partnership agreements with Clear Channel Communications for stations in Jacksonville, Fla.

Clear Channel’s WTEV-TV station in Jacksonville will begin broadcasting CBS programming July 15. This month CBS announced that it was ending its relationship with WJXT-TV, the Post-Newsweek-owned station in Jacksonville--the nation’s 53rd-largest market.

UPN, meanwhile, said Clear Channel’s Fox affiliate in Jacksonville, WAWS-TV, will switch to UPN in July. UPN also announced extensions of affiliate agreements in seven other markets, including Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Wichita, Kan.