[39][page needed] Still, these series were only moderately popular compared to NBC's and CBS's highest-rated programs. ", "Television/Video Preservation Study: Los Angeles Public Hearing", Chicago Television: And Then There Was… DuMont, "DuMont: The Original Fourth Television Network", IEEE History Center: Thomas Goldsmith Abstract, "Hollywood on (Re)Trial: The American Broadcasting-United Paramount Merger Hearing", The FCC and the All-Channel Receiver Bill of 1962, "Reminiscing: Channel 2, Your Du Mont Station", Chicago Television: My Afternoon With Red, "NewspaperArchive® |.aspx historic newspaper articles including obituaries, births, marriages, divorces and arrests", Thanksgiving football games a disappearing tradition, "THE DUMONT NETWORK Trademark of LIGHTNING ONE, INC. The network was nominated twice for its coverage of professional football during the 1953–54 and 1954–55 television seasons. [13] Regular network service began on August 15, 1946, on WABD and W3XWT. Collectibles. [66] (The date has also been reported as September 1955,[67][68] November 1957[69] or August 4, 1958. 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. For these and other reasons, Allen B. DuMont has been referred to … $8.50. Lanham, Md. [29][30], Although DuMont's programming pre-dated videotape, many DuMont offerings were recorded on kinescopes. First U.S. TV set for sale to the public Biography of Allen DuMont This picture, from a 1950s DuMont brochure, shows Allen DuMont with a Jenkins 202 mechanical set. Even then, the picture quality was marginal at best (see also: UHF television broadcasting § UHF reception issues). He and his staff were responsible for many early technical innovations, including the first consumer all-electronic television receiver in 1938. But the set in South Carolina and then the later Duoscopic at the Smithsonian show that DuMont was serious about developing his idea. [citation needed]. Watch; 1950 vintage TV ad DUMONT Television Radio Phonograph The Westminster II 121918. Instead, DuMont sold commercials to many different advertisers, freeing producers of its shows from the veto power held by sole sponsors. Nielsen was not the only company to report TV ratings. Bergmann, Ted, Skutch, Ira. [citation needed], In its later years, DuMont was carried mostly on poorly watched UHF channels or had only secondary affiliations on VHF stations. It allowed its advertisers to choose the locations where their advertising ran, potentially saving them millions of dollars. The DuMont Television Network: What Happened?, pp. This brought in $5 million for the company.[10]. Top Rated … It also would have inherited DuMont's de facto monopoly in Pittsburgh and would have been one of two networks to have full ownership of a station in the nation's capital (the other being NBC). 1950s Dumont Television TV Set and Baby Vtg Color Photo 35mm Slide. [36] Two seasons later, Variety ranked DuMont's popular variety series Cavalcade of Stars as the tenth most popular series. The set has a 4 channel tuner. Hess, Gary Newton (1979). [46] The acrimonious relationship between Paramount and DuMont climaxed during the 1953 FCC hearings regarding the ABC–United Paramount Theaters merger when Paul Raibourn, an executive at Paramount, publicly derided the quality of DuMont television sets in court testimony. Bishop Sheen aired his last program on DuMont on April 26 and later moved to ABC. WTTG still broadcasts under its original call letters as a Fox affiliate. Watch; 1947 Dumont Television: Baseball Get More Out Of Life Vintage Print Ad. The company's television sets soon became the gold standard of the industry. List of former DuMont Television Network affiliates, List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts, Passaic: Birthplace of Television and the DuMont Story, "Who Killed Captain Video? Engineer Allen B. DuMont (1901-1965) was one of the true pioneers of television technology in the 1930s, and the sets manufactured by his company, DuMont Laboratories, in Passaic, New Jersey, were considered among the finest in the industry. Thomas T. Goldsmith gave his collection of TVs and gear in 1988 to the South Carolina State Museum. DuMont introduced this set in 1938, months before RCA first sold sets. Nov 24, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Trevor Schuettinger. This eventually became the standard model for US television. [55] Since WDTV carried secondary affiliations with the other three networks, DuMont used this as a bargaining chip to get its programs cleared in other large markets.[54][56]. remote Space Command and the idea of surfing came about; and it is The problem was, nobody was buying the darned things. Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as Life Is Worth Living) and/or sports programming on the weekends. DuMont included tuning indicators in other early TVs, including my DuMont RA-103 and RA-113, but those sets used a 6AL7 "magic eye" tube whereas the RA-102 had a mechanical meter with a needle. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. 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VINTAGE MOD ORANGE FLOWER POWER QUASAR TELEVISION T.V. "[73] The application by Lightning One was very likely associated with its ownership of the "National Wrestling Alliance" trademark, the moniker of one of the oldest wrestling promotions in the United States. It ended network operations on August 6, 1956. DuMont Model RA-103 Television/Radio (1948) Here is a DuMont model RA-103 television from 1948, a 12-inch Teleset in the Meadowbrook console cabinet. Referring to a 1951 program the author once viewed at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York (described at the bottom of this page), Heldenfels continues: DuMont was a network that marked its twentieth anniversary with a thirty-minute special done in a few spartan sets… This is the early 1939 version of the DuMont 180. The station lasted only seven months (September 1953 – April 1954) on the air. [citation needed], However, Paramount vetoed the plan almost out of hand due to antitrust concerns. There were three cabinet styles for each chassis. Even though you have a nice flat-screen HDTV, you probably could list a few good reasons why you should buy an old TV on eBay. (Information courtesy of Tom Genova). (Information courtesy of Tom Genova).