Dumont Television Network

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Dumont Television Network was an early American television network of the 1940s and 1950s, known as one of the first commercial TV networks in the United States before ceasing operations.

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instanceOf defunct television network
television network
broadcastArea United States of America
surface form: United States
broadcastGenre children's programming
drama
news
religious programming
sports
variety shows
competitor ABC NERFINISHED
CBS NERFINISHED
NBC NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1956
distributionFormat over-the-air television
endTime 1956
followedBy DuMont Independent Network (residual operations) NERFINISHED
Metropolitan Broadcasting NERFINISHED
founder Allen B. DuMont NERFINISHED
headquartersLocation New York City
historicalPeriod 1940s American television
1950s American television
inception 1946
industry television broadcasting
languageOfBroadcast English
namedAfter Allen B. DuMont NERFINISHED
notableFor early live television production
pioneering network television programming
sports broadcasts in early television
notableProgram Captain Video and His Video Rangers NERFINISHED
Cavalcade of Stars NERFINISHED
Life Is Worth Living NERFINISHED
Rocky King, Detective NERFINISHED
The Ernie Kovacs Show (early work) NERFINISHED
The Honeymooners (sketches on Cavalcade of Stars) NERFINISHED
The Johns Hopkins Science Review NERFINISHED
The Original Amateur Hour NERFINISHED
oneOfTheFirst commercial television networks in the United States
ownedBy DuMont Laboratories NERFINISHED
ownedStation WABD (New York) NERFINISHED
WDTV (Pittsburgh) NERFINISHED
WTTG (Washington, D.C.) NERFINISHED
parentCompany DuMont Laboratories NERFINISHED
partOf early American television networks
pictureFormat black-and-white
precededBy experimental DuMont television operations
reasonForEnd financial difficulties
lack of access to radio network affiliates
regulatory constraints on station ownership
startTime 1946

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Bob Wolff employer Dumont Television Network