The forgotten network : DuMont and the birth of American television
"During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the name "DuMont" was synonymous with the new medium of television. Many people first watched TV on DuMont-brand sets, the best receivers money could buy. Even more viewers enjoyed their first programs on the DuMont network, which was established in 1946. Network founder Allen B. DuMont 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."
History
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781592132454, 9781592132607, 9781592134991, 1592132456, 159213260X, 1592134998
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My father was an engineer
From basement to Broadway
Who is in charge here?
The DuMont daytime experiment
Captain video : protector of the free world and the DuMont network
What'd he say? Morey Amsterdam meets Norman Rockwell
And away he went ... Jackie Gleason and the cavalcade of stars
Law and order, DuMont style
A bishop for Berle fans
Ernie Kovacs and the DuMont legacy
Appendix : DuMont chronology