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5 unusual facts about DuMont Television Network


Magic eye tube

The "magic eye" vacuum tube for tuning radio receivers was invented in 1932 by Dr. Allen B. DuMont (who spent most of the 1930s improving the lifetime of cathode ray tubes, and ultimately formed the DuMont Television Network).

Sue Bennett

Bennett starred on the NBC quiz and variety show, Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge in 1949-50, on the DuMont show Teen Time Tunes in 1949, and was featured on the popular Your Hit Parade in 1951-52.

Terry Gibbs

In the 1950–1951 season, Gibbs was a popular guest on Star Time on the DuMont Television Network.

The Magic Cottage

The Magic Cottage (TV series), a children's television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s

WJHL-TV

Originally, the station was affiliated with all four television networks of the time—CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.


Boardroom coup

In 1955, Paramount Pictures staged a boardroom coup and assumed control of the DuMont Television Network.

Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena

Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena is an American sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1954 to 1956.

Bruce Geller

He pursued a career writing scripts for shows on the DuMont Television Network including Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop (1953) and others.

Chicagoland Mystery Players

Chicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1947, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949.

David O. Selznick

But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.

DuMont Royal Theater

DuMont Royal Theater (also known as Royal Playhouse) was an American anthology television series which ran on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1951 to 1952.

Hazel Scott

She was the first woman of color to have her own television show, The Hazel Scott Show, which premiered on the DuMont Television Network on July 3, 1950.

Irving Fields

From November 1, 1954 to January 3, 1955, he and his orchestra appeared on the DuMont Television Network series The Ilona Massey Show, hosted by Ilona Massey.

Jack Chertok

He is also credited as a producer for other series such as Sky King, Steve Donovan, Western Marshal, Cavalcade of America on the DuMont Television Network, and The Lawless Years.

Liang Tsai-Ping

While at Yale University in 1945-46, he introduced a performance on the "China Program" with the American writer Emily Hahn, on DuMont Television.

Miriam Battista

Battista helped Maloney translate Die Fledermaus into English for the Philadelphia Opera Company (1943), and they collaborated on a television talk show, The Maloneys, on the DuMont Television Network (1947–1948).

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In 1957, the Post-Gazette launched WIIC-TV (now WPXI) as the area's first full-time NBC affiliate three years after Westinghouse Electric's Group W spurned NBC for CBS with its newly acquired former DuMont O&O WDTV (now KDKA-TV) despite KDKA Radio's longtime affiliation with NBC Radio.

The School House

The School House is an early American television program broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 PM Eastern by the DuMont Television Network for a few months in 1949.

WLEX-TV

It was co-owned with WLEX radio (1300 AM, now WLXG) and carried programming from all four networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont).

Wrestling From Marigold

Wrestling From Marigold is an American sports program broadcast from the Marigold Arena in Chicago which aired on the DuMont Television Network from Saturday, September 17, 1949 until March 1955.


see also

Front Row

Front Row Center, a TV series aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1950