Although NBC was known to have station-to-station links as early as 1941, DuMont received its station licenses before NBC resumed its previous sporadic network broadcasts after the war.

DuMont programs were by necessity low-budget affairs, and the network received relatively few awards from the television industry.

Sheen's Emmy and the Science Review Peabody were the only national awards the DuMont Network received.

Soon after channel 5 received its commercial license, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont-owned experimental station in Washington, D. C. ( now WTTG ).

Chaired by Senator Karl Mundt, the hearings convened on March 16, 1954, and received considerable press attention, including gavel-to-gavel live television coverage on ABC and DuMont from April 22 to June 17.

A few popular DuMont programs, such as Cavalcade of Stars and Emmy Award winner Life Is Worth Living, appear in TV retrospectives or are mentioned briefly in books about U. S. television history, but almost all the network's programming was destroyed in the 1970s.

He lampoons the fact that the entire nomination and selection process appears to be controlled by one man, Bruce DuMont, who is also the sole authority appointing the selection panel for the selection process.

DuMont was in financial trouble for a number of reasons, not the least of which was an FCC ruling that barred it from acquiring two additional O & Os because of two stations owned by Paramount.

However, DuMont's pioneering status in television and programming creativity gave it a leg up on ABC, and for a time appeared that DuMont was about to establish itself as the third television network.

DuMont would get $ 5 million in cash and guaranteed advertising time for DuMont television receivers.

The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or ( incorrectly ) Dumont () was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall.

On May 19, 1945, DuMont opened experimental W3XWT in Washington, D. C. A minority shareholder in DuMont Laboratories was Paramount Pictures, which had advanced $ 400, 000 in 1939 for a 40 % share in the company.

Still later, a lease on the Adelphi Theatre on 54th Street and the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street gave the network a site for variety shows, and in 1954, the lavish DuMont Tele-Centre opened in the former Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street.

DuMont was the first television network to broadcast a film production for television: Talk Fast, Mister, produced by RKO in 1944.

Nevertheless, a number of DuMont programs survive at The Paley Center for Media in New York City, the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles, in the Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

It is believed that virtually the entire archive of the DuMont Television Network, covering its whole history from 1946 – 1956, was disposed of during the 1970s by a " successor " broadcaster ( believed to be ABC ) through dumping all of the kinescopes / videotapes into the East River to make room for other tapes at a New York City warehouse.

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

* Allen B. DuMont ( 1901 – 65 ), scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers, manufacture of the first commercially-successful electronic televisions and founder of the first licensed TV network, DuMont Television Network.

The station is also the " flagship " broadcast outlet for the weekly, national political talk show, Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont.

Restless with graduate studies, he went looking for a job where he could use his college degree and obtained an entry-level job at the DuMont Television Network.

Helene Hanff, best known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1950 – 1952 ), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC.

Several DuMont programs were produced from WGN-TV's facilities, including: The Al Morgan Show ; Chicago Symphony ; Chicagoland Mystery Players ; Music From Chicago ; The Music Show ; They Stand Accused ; This is Music ; Windy City Jamboree ; and Down You Go.

She was a regular panellist on the hit DuMont quiz Down You Go and starred alongside Vincent Price in The Tingler.

Ivory Joe Hunter in his network television debut on You Asked for It ( DuMont, April 1951 )

The Plainclothesman, a moderately popular crime series aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1954, used the technique.

Verne Gagne, a former amateur wrestling champion, had become a well known and popular wrestler nationally in the 1950s as a result of his appearances on the DuMont Network.

The first really popular science-fiction program on American television was the children ’ s adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran for six years ( June 1949 to April 1955 ) on the short-lived DuMont Network.

In the summer of 1953, he briefly hosted the DuMont game show Blind Date.

Collyer's other game show hosting included the DuMont game shows Talent Jackpot ( 1949 ) and On Your Way ( 1953 – 1954 ), the short-lived ( two years ) game show Feather Your Nest, and the ABC game Number Please in 1961 ( which replaced Beat the Clock on the Monday after the final ABC episode ).

* Time Will Tell ( TV series ), an American game show which aired on the DuMont Television Network in 1954

Unlike ABC's Notre Dame coverage, DuMont's NFL game was presented live on Saturday nights, but interest was not adequate to save the DuMont Network, which had by this point already entered what would be a terminal decline ( although it did mount a subsequent 1954 season of NFL telecasts, minus Wismer, which proved to be one of its last regular programs ).

He is credited as the host of television's first network game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry in 1946.

* The Morey Amsterdam Show, a comedy / variety show hosted by Morey Amsterdam, which started on CBS before moving to DuMont in 1949

In April 1954, he started late-night talk show The Ernie Kovacs Show on DuMont Television Network's New York flagship station, WABD.

From November 1952 to January 1953, Douglas starred in the DuMont detective show Steve Randall ( Hollywood Off Beat ) which then moved to CBS.

After a year on DuMont, the show moved to CBS for half a year, much of the time being broadcast every weeknight, and then ran for one more year each Saturday night on NBC, which broadcast the final episode on March 11, 1950.

In 1954, the show reverted to a weekly half-hour, moving to the DuMont network for a run from April to October.

With This Ring was a prime time panel show aired by the DuMont Television Network from January 21, 1951 to March 11, 1951.

In July 1950, Jackie Gleason took over as the host of Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show that aired on the DuMont Television Network.

CBS president William S. Paley convinced Gleason to leave the DuMont Network and bring his show to CBS.

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.

He previously hosted several radio shows in Chicago, including Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room, a late-night variety radio show broadcast from 10: 30 pm to 12 midnight, which was also the name of a later daytime talk show he hosted on the DuMont Television Network.

From May 1947 to July 1949, Olson hosted Doorway to Fame, an evening television talent show on the new DuMont Television Network.

Olson also hosted the Saturday morning children's show Kids and Company on DuMont from September 1951 to June 1952, with co-host Ham Fisher.

He had his own show in 1948 called Off The Record on WABD-TV ( DuMont Channel 5 of the time in NYC ) with comedian partner Joey Faye.

An October 1948 Billboard article describes disputes between the show producer and DuMont on their not providing live studio audiences for the program which Zero needed to play off to perform at his peak.

The show appeared on ABC for the first few months of its broadcast as Arthur Murray Party Time, then moved to the DuMont Television Network, ABC, CBS, DuMont, CBS, NBC, CBS, and finally NBC ( in that order ).

Photo from DuMont advertising the show, with 14 year-old Dick Harrison, Herb Polesie, Fred Van Deventer, Florence Rinard, and actor Aldo Ray as guest panelist ( February 1, 1954 )

One of the most beloved was the long-running Big Brother Bob Emery show, hosted by veteran radio performer Emery, who first did the show on Boston-area radio in 1921 and who in 1947 hosted the first five-times-a-week children's show on network television on DuMont.