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	DuMont Television Network - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Television, as had been anticipated, had a sensational growth in 1953.
		Television continued to grow as a vital force in American life in 1952, and the outlook for 1953 was that it would continue to develop at an equally astonishing rate.
		Television had a tremendous year of growth in 1950 — its greatest to date — and firmly established itself as a vital service and entertainment medium for a huge portion of the population.
	encarta.msn.com /DuMont_Television_Network.html (292 words)

	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)

	Exploring U.S. History \| Regulating Television
		It is the responsibility of television to bear constantly in mind that the audience is primarily a home audience, and consequently that television’s relationship to the viewers is that between guest and host.
		The American businesses which utilize television for conveying their advertising messages to the home by pictures with sound, seen free-of-charge on the home screen, are reminded that their responsibilities are not limited to the sale of goods and the creation of a favorable attitude toward the sponsor by the presentation of entertainment.
		Television, and all who participate in it are jointly accountable to the American public for respect for the special needs of children, for community responsibility, for the advancement of education and culture, for the acceptability of the program materials chosen, for decency and decorum in production, and for propriety in advertising.
	chnm.gmu.edu /exploring/20thcentury/regulatingtelevision/pop_report.html (1319 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/DuMont Television Network
		Although these stations never carried DuMont programming (with the exception of one year on KTLA in 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.
		DuMont bought a small, distressed UHF station in Kansas City in 1954, but ran it for just three months before shutting it down at a considerable loss, after attempting to compete with three established VHF stations.
		For 50 years, DuMont was the only major broadcast television network to go off the air, until UPN and the WB networks shut down in 2006 to merge and form the CW network.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network (2728 words)

	Captain Video: television's first fantastic voyage.(DuMont Television Network, Cold War propaganda) - HighBeam ...
		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.
		As the first television adventure set in space, Captain Video was accorded a respectful position in numerous articles on the "space opera" craze in early 1950s popular culture.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-94465268.html (6527 words)

	Metromedia and DuMont
		DuMont's regulatory problems were complicated by the 1949 US Department of Justice order for the major Hollywood studios to spin off their cinema operations, with Paramount (subsequently a major component of the Viacom conglomerate), establishing United Paramount Theatres (UPT) as the vehicle for its cinemas.
		The DuMont network was separated from DuMont Labs and rebadged as the Metropolitan Network in 1955.
		DuMont's manufacturing operations struggled during the rest of the decade, with its television receiver and audio hifi operations being acquired by Emerson Radio and Phonograph in 1958 and its oscilloscope and CRT manufacturing arm being absorbed by Fairchild in 1960.
	www.ketupa.net /metromedia.htm (1122 words)

	DuMont Television Network at AllExperts
		The DuMont Television Network was the world's first officially licensed commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946 and lasting until 1956.
		DuMont aspired to grow beyond its three stations, applying for licenses in Boston (or Philadelphia, depending on the source) and Cincinnati; this would have given the network five stations, the maximum allowed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at the time.
		DuMont bought a small, distressed UHF station in Kansas City in 1954, but ran it for just two months before shutting it down at a considerable loss, after attempting to compete with three established VHF stations.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/du/dumont_television_network.htm (2465 words)

	DuMont, Allen B.
		DuMont televised the occasional successful show, including Cavalcade of Stars (before Jackie Gleason left), Captain Video, and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living.
		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 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)

	Towards a Canadian Television Museum
		The world's first television broadcast via coaxial cable is transmitted from New York to Washington D.C. Allen B. DuMont forms the first television network by joining two stations, known as the DuMont television network.
		The American television audience increases by a staggering 4,000 percent this year, due to a jump in the number of cities with television stations.
		Television as we know it is a travelling exhibition about the history of television in Canada.
	www.bairdtelevision.com /consult.html (2283 words)

	Debra Pickett: Lunch with Bruce DuMont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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 (943 words)

	1998 Inductees - Allen B. DuMont
		When the television market for cathode-ray tubes was slow to develop, DuMont turned to the manufacture of cathode-ray oscilloscopes for use as research and test instruments.
		In 1939, DuMont criticized the television standards proposed by the Radio Manufacturers Association and proposed alternatives that would be more compatible with future innovations.
		DuMont's assembly plants for television receivers were sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph in 1958.
	www.njinvent.njit.edu /1998/inductees_1998/allen_b_dumont.html (359 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)

	Fox Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The seed Fox stations were a chain of television stations purchased by News Corp. from John Kluge and his Metromedia Inc in mid-1986.
		Metromedia's television stations in turn derived from the stations owned by the long-defunct DuMont television network.
		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.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fo/fox_network.html (190 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 (2416 words)

	Cable Network Television
		Much of the world watches cable network television, particularly American-produced cable network television, and is fascinated by what goes on behind the scenes.
		By simple definition, a television network is a group of linked broadcasting stations set-up as a programming delivery system for the distribution of content provided by a central operation.
		In the case of the largest networks, the signal is sent to over 200 stations across the country, and even throughout around the world.
	www.the-best-of-television.com /CableNetworkTelevision.html (404 words)

	Classic TV & Movie Hits - UPN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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)

	Transformation of the Television
		RCA begins to produce televisions early in the year, and later demonstrate and electronic color television system.
		By the end of the year there are 190,000 television sets in use around the country.
		NBC is the first commercial television network to use satellite interconnection for its stations.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/tvgroup/history.html (374 words)

	DuMont Television Network - The TV IV
		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 (89 words)

	Williamsburg Brooklyn Restaurant Guide: * Dumont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		DuMont in Williamsburg is the quintessential cozy neighborhood bistro.
		For main courses, the juicy DuMont Burger was a high point, and a deal at $10, and came with awe-inspiring fries.
		the waitresses and bartender at dumont are all bitches.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /restaurants/archives/2005/03/_dumont.html (3755 words)

	Captain Video: television's first fantastic voyage - DuMont Television Network, Cold War propaganda Journal of Popular ...
		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.
		Video Ranger Don Hastings, the captain's protege, was one of television's first teen stars, described in a TV Guide profile as a "21st Century juvenile heart-throb" and "object of [idolatry] from the crush age sorority" of girls who joined Hastings fan clubs ("America's No. 1 Bachelor" 8).
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_3_30/ai_94465268 (1004 words)

	Mass Media Course: TV Network Ratings
		The golden age of TV was also a golden age for the television networks — except for under-financed DuMont Television Network, which operated from 1946 to 1956 and then folded.
		In addition to the stalwart CBS and NBC networks, there was ABC, a new network that was trying, with increasing success, to move up.
		Even though we now have six basic TV networks, more than there have ever been in the United States, we have to acknowledge that the golden age for television and television networks has past.
	www.cybercollege.com /frtv/frtv026.htm (1503 words)

	Civilization.ca - Watching TV - A Timeline of Television History
		The television audience increases by 4,000 percent this year, due to a jump in the number of cities with television stations and to the fact that one million homes in the U.S. now have television sets.
		Over 100 television stations are in operation in the U.S. The first colour television transmissions begin in the U.S. this year.
		On September 6, CBC Television broadcasts from its Montreal station; on September 8, CBC broadcasts from the Toronto station.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/tv/tv02eng.html (2323 words)

	About Dumont Restaurant Williamsburg Brooklyn NY
		Patron favorites such as the DuMont Burger and a lardon-studded DuMac and Cheese, a half roast chicken with mashed potatoes and pan jus, and a grilled New York Strip comprise just some of the staples of DuMont's menu.
		DuMont's name comes from a sign found on the now defunct offices of America's fourth television network, founded by the inventor Dr. Allen B. DuMont, whose offices were only blocks away.
		DuMont's cozy layout, ancient tiled floors, and weathered tin ceilings and walls make for a unique dining experience.
	dumontrestaurant.com /about.htm (211 words)

	TV Network Ratings
		e golden age of TV was also a golden age for the television networks—except for under-financed DuMont Television Network, which struggled for a while and then folded in the mid-50's.
		Fox was the first of three new networks to appear on the scene to try to compete with the "big three": CBS, NBC and ABC.
		In the case of both WB and UPN the main objective was to have TV station outlets for the material their associated film studios produced.
	www.marysville.k12.mi.us /MHS/TV&Radio/networks_ratings_26.html (1344 words)

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