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For 50 years, DuMont was the only major broadcast television network to cease operations, until CBS Corporation and Time Warner merged two other struggling networks, UPN and The WB, in September 2006, to create The CW Television Network – whose schedule was originally composed largely of programs from both of its predecessor networks.
Don McNeill's Breakfast Club (May 12, 1948) - kinescope, simulcast with ABC Radio. A Christmas Carol (December 25, 1947) Coaxial Cable Opening (January 11, 1949) Miss U.S. Television Grand Finals (September 30, 1950) Top 12 Business Leaders (May 28, 1951) - 30-minute special from the 21 Club in NYC.
Welcome to a series of Web pages devoted to the DuMont Television Network, America's fourth television network which operated from 1946 to 1956. The site was originally launched on February 5, 1999 as a one-page article on DuMont with a few links, and has since expanded to what you see today. This was the first, and is still the largest, DuMont ...
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The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont , who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recover the silver content of the film prints, [1] and eventually the remaining material was simply discarded.
Aug 7, 2016 · Video: 'Oddity Archive: Episode 70 - The DuMont Network' (Monday, August 6, 1956, 9:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) — The DuMont Television Network, one of the world’s pioneer commercial television networks, went off the air tonight with the conclusion of a boxing match after a decade of operations.
May 18, 2024 · DuMont Television Network, American television network of the 1940s and ’50s, established in 1946 by DuMont Laboratories and its founder, Allen B. DuMont.The parent company was a pioneer in early television technology, but, largely because it lacked the support of a radio network, the DuMont Television Network struggled to compete with the fledgling television networks established by radio ...
The DuMont name began with a laboratory in 1931 founded by Allen B. DuMont who was responsible for the first consumer all-electronic television set. He then went on to open an experimental television station that soon turned into the DuMont Television Network. It was on this day, August 6, 1956, that the DuMont Television Network had its final ...
