DuMont Laboratories

Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.
Company type	Private
Industry	Television equipment manufacturer; Broadcasting company
Founded	1931; Upper Montclair, New Jersey, United States
Founder	Allen B. DuMont
Defunct	1960
Fate	Broadcast operations spun off into DuMont Broadcasting Corporation (1956); renamed to Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation (1958), then Metromedia (1961), Metromedia television stations bought by News Corporation & used to form the nucleus of Fox Television Stations; TV set manufacturing operations sold to Emerson Radio (1958); Oscillograph & CRT manufacturing operations merged into Fairchild Camera and Instrument (1960); renamed Fairchild Weston Systems (1982), acquired by Loral Corporation & renamed Loral Fairchild Systems (1989), acquired by Lockheed Martin through purchase of Loral Corporation's defense electronics and system integration businesses, becoming Lockheed Fairchild Systems (1996), was grouped with Sanders Associates and Lockheed Martin Space Electronics & Communications under the Lockheed Martin Aerospace Electronic Systems division, division then acquired by BAE Systems (2000);
Successor	Fox Television Stations; (Broadcasting operations); Emerson Radio; (TV manufacturing operations); BAE Systems; (Oscillograph & cathode-ray tube manufacturing operations)
Headquarters	Clifton, New Jersey, United States
Products	DuMont Television Network; WABD (WNYW, FOX O&O); KCTY (defunct DuMont affiliate); W2XVT (experimental, defunct DuMont affiliate); KE2XDR (experimental, defunct DuMont affiliate); WDTV (KDKA-TV, CBS O&O); WTTG (FOX O&O); Cathode ray tubes; Magic eye tube
Owner	Allen B. DuMuont; (1931–1939); Allen B. DuMont (60%); (1939–1955); According to the FCC in 1953:; Allen B. DuMont; (1931–1953); Allen B. DuMont (minority); (1953–1956)
Parent	Paramount Pictures Inc. (40%); (1939–1955); Paramount Pictures Inc.; (1955–1956); According to the Federal Communications Commission in 1953:; Paramount Pictures Inc. (majority); (1953–1956); (The FCC, in 1953, had ascertained that Paramount controlled DuMont Labs, even though Paramount only owned 40% of the company)

Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.^[2] (printed on products as Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., referred to as DuMont Laboratories or DuMont Labs, and DuMont on company documents) was an American television equipment manufacturer and broadcasting company. At one point it owned TV stations WABD (WNYW, FOX O&O), KCTY (defunct DuMont affiliate), W2XVT (experimental, defunct DuMont affiliate), KE2XDR (experimental, defunct DuMont affiliate), & WDTV (KDKA-TV, CBS O&O), as well as WTTG (FOX O&O), all former affiliates of its DuMont Television Network.

The company was founded in 1931 in Upper Montclair by inventor Allen B. DuMont, with its headquarters in nearby Clifton. Among the company's developments were durable cathode ray tubes (CRTs) that would be used for TV and its magic eye tube.^[3]

^ "DUMONT MAKES PLEA ON CONTROL RULING" (PDF).
^ "Allen B. DuMont | American engineer and inventor". Encyclopedia Britannica. DuMont set up a company in 1931 that later was known as Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.
^ Weinstein, David (2009). The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592134991.

[1] "DUMONT MAKES PLEA ON CONTROL RULING" (PDF).

[2] "Allen B. DuMont | American engineer and inventor". Encyclopedia Britannica. DuMont set up a company in 1931 that later was known as Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.

[weinstein-3] Weinstein, David (2009). The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592134991.

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