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	Dr. Allen Balcom DuMont, 1901-1965
		DuMont was an American scientist, inventor and broadcaster best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers (beginning in 1931), and later as the founder of the DuMont television network.
		DuMont later went on to found in 1946 the first television network to be licensed, the DuMont Television Network, initially by linking station WABD (named for DuMont) in New York City to station WTTG in Washington, DC.
		DuMont died in 1965 and is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
	www.bairdtelevision.com /dumont.html (1037 words)

	The DuMont Television Network: Channel Two
		DuMont is the Jesse Garon Presley of networks, a
		DuMont was second to enter the network TV business, establishing a link between its New York City and Washington, D.C. stations in 1945, ahead of both CBS and ABC, and not far behind the pioneering efforts of NBC.
		DuMont developed the first long-lasting cathode ray tube, the basis of electronic television, and was first to offer a home television receiver to the public in 1939, exhibiting sets at the New York World's Fair that year.
	members.aol.com /cingram/television/dumont2.htm (763 words)

	pickett: Lunch with Bruce DuMont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DuMont, the Chicago journalist who is the founder, president and CEO of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, is not one for small appetites or subtle emotions.
		DuMont is tucking into his salad, making sure to get all the walnuts, as Frank Sinatra's "Chicago" begins to drown out the chatter of the late-lunch crowd.
		DuMont knows it isn't like that anymore, and he isn't quite sure what to make of the new broadcast landscape.
	blogs.suntimes.com /pickett/2006/01/lunch_with_bruce_dumont.html (935 words)

	DuMont, Allen B.
		DuMont was hired by Fairchild as group general manager of the A. DuMont Division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation until his death in 1965.
		DuMont engineers perfected the use of cathode-ray tubes as TV screens, developed the kinescope process, as well as the "magic eye cathode-ray radio tuning indicator, and the first electronic viewfinder.
		DuMont Network: a historical website:Clarke Ingram has been in the broadcasting industry for more than 20 years as the Program Director and on-air personality for various radio stations, and presently as the Program Director and afternoon drive personality at WJJJ-FM in Pittsburgh, also known as 104.7 The Beat, Pittsburgh's Jammin' Oldies.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/DuMont/DuMont.htm (1034 words)

	1998 Inductees - Allen B. DuMont
		In 1933, DuMont proposed a radio-detection system but was asked by the Army Signal Corps not to seek patents because of its military significance.
		DuMont's assembly plants for television receivers were sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph in 1958.
		Dumont served as senior technical consultant until his death in 1965.
	www.njinvent.njit.edu /1998/inductees_1998/allen_b_dumont.html (359 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Restaurant Guide: * Dumont
		DuMont in Williamsburg is the quintessential cozy neighborhood bistro.
		But don't let the name fool you: DuMont, a tiny storefront tucked on an unpromising stretch of Union Ave., is not another French place filled with overdone bistro touches.
		For main courses, the juicy DuMont Burger was a high point, and a deal at $10, and came with awe-inspiring fries.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /restaurants/archives/2005/03/_dumont.html (965 words)

	Classic TV & Movie Hits - UPN
		Paramount Pictures (the "P" in UPN) has played an pivotal role in the development of network television; it was a partner in the DuMont Television Network, and the Paramount Theaters chain, spun off from the corporate/studio parent, was an early, important component of the ABC television network's survival in the 1950s.
		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 1985.
		Although considered a major network by the Nielsen ratings, UPN is not (as of fall 2004) available in all areas of the United States.
	www.classictvhits.com /network.php?id=20 (1256 words)

	ABC AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY
		The network today, in fact, is the last of the Big Three broadcasting networks to use the full name based upon this initialism (after the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1974, and the National Broadcasting Company in 2004).
		DuMont was in financial trouble for a number of reasons, not the least of which was an FCC ruling that barred it from acquiring two additional OandOs because of two stations owned by Paramount.
		As the network gained in the ratings, it became an attractive property, and over the next few years ABC approached, or was approached, by GE (which would have had to sell its stake in RCA, owner of NBC), Howard Hughes, Litton Industries, GTE and ITT.
	www.solarnavigator.net /films_movies_actors/ABC.htm (3811 words)

	Reason Magazine - Who Killed Captain Video?
		But by 1955 Du Mont's network was out of business, strangled in its crib by an FCC that was protecting not consumers but its old (and generous) clients, the radio networks, which wanted to get control of the burgeoning new medium before it seriously threatened them.
		The networks were determined to extend their broadcast hegemony into the new medium of television, and they used the FCC as their Praetorian Guard.
		DuMont offered a plan that would have at the very least doubled the number of TV channels available in each city: The network proposed using VHF channels in some cities and the new UHF (ultra-high-frequency) channels (14 and higher) in others.
	www.reason.com /news/show/36524.html (2413 words)

	DuMont Television Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The network was hindered by the prohibitive cost of broadcasting, FCC regulations which restricted the company's growth, and by the company's own partner, Paramount Pictures.
		DuMont aspired to grow beyond its three stations, applying for licenses in Boston (or Philadelphia, depending on the source) and Cincinnati.
		Although these stations never carried DuMont programming (with the exception of one year on KTLA from 1947–48), and in fact competed with the DuMont affiliates in those cities, the FCC ruled that Paramount's two licenses were in theory DuMont owned and operated stations, which effectively placed DuMont at the five-station cap.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DuMont_Television_Network (2832 words)

	On the Media
		It was called the DuMont Network, and its rise and fall are chronicled in a new book, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television.
		One of the reasons for that is that the other TV networks also owned radio networks, and they wanted to protect their radio interests by not having television compete with radio.
		What this meant for DuMont and any other company that wanted to start a fourth network is that it would really only have access to seven markets, and that was not enough for the network to be viable.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_091004_dumont.html (1281 words)

	Poynter Online - Early TV Anchors
		Although radio networks had been in existence since the 1920s, large television networks really didn't start until 1948 when coaxial cable began connecting major TV markets.
		From 1946 until 1956 the DuMont network was considered the fourth major television network.
		The final DuMont network telecast in August 1956 was not a newscast, but a boxing match.
	poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=99440 (1717 words)

	Allen DuMont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was on the DuMont Network that comedian Jackie Gleason developed the format for ''The Honeymooners,'' the classic 1950s series that was later broadcast by NBC.
		In 1952, the Dumont Network aired professional football and basketball, but in time, lost out to other networks that could afford to pay more for the television rights.
		Eventually, DuMont was forced to sell his stations, but the DuMont Network's legacy in programming remains an important chapter in television history.
	www.ce.org /Events/Awards/469.htm (273 words)

	DuMont Television Network - The TV IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The DuMont Television Network operated from 1945 to 1956.
		The network was started by, and named for, Dr. Allen B. DuMont, an inventor and early pioneer in television.
		Its first broadcast was an announcement of the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
	tviv.org /DuMont (86 words)

	Roaring Rockets - Roaring Reviews Page 2
		DuMont was at least a player in the struggle to create programming that America's households would tune their newly purchased TVs into, in 1949, but by 1953 they were pretty much licked, and by the spring of 1955 they were out of the picture completely and literally.
		Based on Weinstein's carefully researched and well-organized recounting of the history of DuMont, it is amazing that the network lasted as long as it did.
		The two major networks, NBC and CBS, had powerful lobbyists who would walk right into the offices of the FCC or the halls of Congress and unashamedly dictate regulations or rulings or legislation that openly favored NBC and CBS, while making it difficult for ABC and impossible for DuMont to expand.
	www.slick-net.com /space/reviews/pg2.phtml (3195 words)

	Fox Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The seed Fox stations were a chain of television stations purchased by News Corp. from John Kluge and his Metromedia Inc in mid-1986.
		The network did not have a significant market share until the 1990s when News Corp. bought more TV station groups, including New World Communications, Chris-Craft Industries, BHC Communications and United Television, making it the largest owner of television stations in the country.
		The Fox network is home to the longest-running animated series in history, The Simpsons.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fo/fox_network.html (190 words)

	TV ACRES: Broadcast Firsts - News Broadcasts
		DuMont Network's WALTER COMPTON NEWS was the first Dumont Network news program and the first news series to originate from Washington, D.C..
		The NBC Network had primitive regular network telecasts such as SUNOCO NEWS or ESSO TELEVISION REPORTER as early as the 1940s which included radio simulcast of commentator, Lowell Thomas accompanied by news, photos, maps and graphics.
		However, their first successful nationally accepted anchorman was John Cameron Swayze whose behind the scenes narration on newsreels led to a seat in front of the camera where he read the news on CAMEL NEWS CARAVAN in 1948.
	www.tvacres.com /broad_news.htm (459 words)

	Dumont Public Schools
		To promote educational excellence in the Dumont Schools by facilitating resource sharing, innovation, and communications, it is the school's goal to provide Internet access to students and staff.
		The Internet is an electronic communications network which provides vast, diverse, and unique resources which allows students and staff to interact with hundreds of thousands of computers on a world-wide basis.
		Dumont does not condone the use of offensive materials.
	www.dumontnj.org /dsp_web_page.cfm?int_web_page_id=85 (680 words)

	Flashback: The 50th Anniversary of ABC
		However prior to 1953, the network was struggling with only a handful of affiliates (many which had to be shared with the DuMont Television Network or lost on the practically inaccessible UHF band), virtually no advertisers, and extremely limited finances for program development and expansion.
		DuMont, struggling along due to its own problems, would fold in 1955 after an ill-fated attempt to merge with ABC.
		After an abortive attempt to launch a fourth network in 1977, it succeeded in 1995 with the advent of UPN- the United Paramount Network.
	www.museum.tv /exhibitionssection.php?page=88 (677 words)

	Spotlight on Golden Age Networks - ABC
		Feeling that "Blue" was not the best name for a broadcast network it was suggested that a name beginning with "A" be chosen so the network would show up at the beginning of alphabetical listings.
		This caught the attention of the Justice Department, who alledged that RCA Corporation (NBC) was specifically employing the two parallel Networks (referred to as the 'Red' Network and the 'Blue' Network) in a conscious effort to stifle competition in the fast growing network radio and radio advertising markets.
		Most collectors who are aware of the timing of the transfer of NBC Blue to ABC tend to retain the 'Blue Network' desgination on shows that ran both before and after the changeover.
	www.digitaldeliftp.com /LookAround/la_networkspot_abc.htm (856 words)

	Disinformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even the explanation of why the network altered the spelling of its creator’s name to DuMont has been swallowed by the sands of time.
		Most television histories mention DuMont only as a footnote, if that, and because the network left the air before the invention of videotape, its programs have mostly faded from memory.
		Though NBC, CBS, and ABC also had eclectic lineups in the early days as everybody groped around in the dark, inventing TV on a daily basis, the DuMont Television Network was especially quirky.' (Reason article).
	www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle10288.html (195 words)

	Vintage Radios and Televisions
		One of DuMont's early inventions was the "tuning eye", which he sold to RCA for $20,000 (for some background on this device, click here).
		DuMont developed the first long-lasting cathode ray tube, the basis of electronic television, and was first to offer a home television receiver to the public in 1939.
		DuMont also applied for an experimental television station in New York City, which went on the air as W2XWV in 1942.
	www.jitterbuzz.com /indtv.html (1950 words)

	Captain Video: television's first fantastic voyage - DuMont Television Network, Cold War propaganda Journal of Popular ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The novelty of television was so great during the medium's early years that network and local broadcasters did not need to create programs with exotic sets or fantastic premises.
		DuMont did what it could to capitalize on the popularity of the show and its personalities, licensing a range of official Captain Video clothing and toys, from socks to spaceships.
		At a time when DuMont and other broadcasters were working to domesticate television and convince viewers to purchase receivers, Captain Video shows a future in which video is ubiquitous.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_3_30/ai_94465268 (1004 words)

	Chicago Television- And then there was...DuMont
		They had the big bucks, the vast talent pool culled from their profitable and well established radio networks, and of course the sponsors who salivated at the chance to have their products hawked in the new medium by top name celebrities.
		But despite the problems that the network had in front of the camera, the ones behind were far more serious and threatened the very existence of the network itself.
		Media mogul John Kluge purchased the remaining stock that Paramount Pictures held in Du Mont, (in a bit of irony since it was Paramount's involvement with Du Mont that contributed to the network's demise) and changed the company's name to Metromedia which continued to purchase and affiliate stations across the country.
	www.chicagotelevision.com /dumont.htm (1214 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DuMont also broadcast live coverage of the famed 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, which was the beginning of the end of Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist "witch hunts".
		As one historian noted, "DuMont was a network that marked its twentieth anniversary with a thirty-minute special done in a few spartan sets.
		DuMont did come up with a technical innovation called the "Electronicam", that combined a live TV camera with a film camera, allowing a program to be shot live and on film at the same time, eliminating the grainy, poor-quality kinescope.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /dumont.htm (1777 words)

	DuMont TV
		The DuMont sets were highly prized for their excellent electronic performance; unlike Southern California competitor "Madman" Muntz who excelled in removing virtually every possible part and still have a viewable picture.
		Later the CBS network was able to purchase KTSL for itself and in 1951 the stations swapped network affiliations.
		In 1959 an investor magnate John Kluge acquired DuMont's remaining stations by purchasing Paramount's interest and re-invented the network as Metromedia, a "group ownership".
	www.r-vcr.com /~television/TV/TV11.htm (912 words)

	David Weinstein: The Forgotten Network - Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More viewers enjoyed their first programs on the DuMont network, which was established in 1946.
		Network founder Allen B. Du Mont became a folk hero for his entrepreneurial spirit in bringing television to the American people.
		Yet, by 1955, the DuMont network was out of business and its founder and namesake was forced to relinquish control of the company he had spent a quarter century building.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/1575_reg_print.html (674 words)

	Bonamo The Magic Clown @ Toonarific Cartoons
		Starring magician Zovella, the show was set against the backdrop of a traveling circus where "The Magic Clown" would engage his studio audiences and his viewers in games, comedy skits, puppet skits, magic tricks and interviews with guest performers and personalities.
		The show later moved to WNTA TV Ch.13 in Newark,N.J where it was seen weekday afternoons (At peanut butter and jellytime) and on Saturday mornings from Monday September 29, 1958 to Friday July 24, 1959 and on Saturday September 27, 1958 to Saturday January 3,1959.
		The nationally syndicated version of "The Magic Clown" was not as successful as the NBC TV/DuMont TV Network and WNTA TV versions and it left the air after one season.
	www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=7949 (521 words)

	Channel 2, Your Du Mont Station
		When KTSL aligned itself with Du Mont, it became an affiliate of that network, but was was not “hooked up” with it, in the physical sense.
		Each network had its radio affiliates, many of which launched TV stations which became the network’s television affilates.
		As of the late 1940s, it was anyone’s guess whether either of these fledgling networks — or, indeed, whether CBS or NBC — would triumph in the seemingly up-and-coming (but perhaps never-to-succeed) medium of television.
	www.metnews.com /articles/reminiscing100302.htm (673 words)

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