sentences:  Independent stations, even more than network affiliates, were feeling the growing pressure of audience erosion to cable television in the 1980s and 1990s, and there were unaffiliated commercial stations in most of the major markets, at least, even after the foundation of Fox in 1986.Meanwhile, Paramount, long successful in syndication with repeats of "", with several impressively popular first-run syndicated series by the turn of the 1990s, in "Entertainment Tonight", "Hard Copy", "Webster" (which moved from ABC for its last two seasons), "The Arsenio Hall Show", "", "War of the Worlds" (unrelated to the 1970s attempt) and, perhaps most importantly of all, the two new "Star Trek" franchises, "" and "".Paramount finally returned to the idea of launching a network with the creation of UPN, which launched in January 1995; as with the aborted PTVS, a new "Star Trek" series ("") was launched at the same time as the network's flagship program.