Word: dumont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Should the room in which you are viewing television be darkened to resemble a movie theater? Answer: Definitely not!") But soon the marketers of TV had a brainstorm: promoting the new device as a way of bringing the family together again. "There is great happiness," exulted an ad for DuMont sets, "in the home where the family is held together by this new common bond -- television." Another promotional piece listed the things that "took the family away from home" -- including baseball, vaudeville and movies -- and presented TV as the family-saving alternative. (The job may have been done too well...
Politicians from Governor John Sununu on down have lined up to denounce the manual and block its distribution. Says Strafford County Commissioner Paul Dumont: "We let those guys out of the closet ten years ago. I think we should put them back in." He and his fellow commissioners voted to freeze spending for the county's Prenatal Family Planning Clinic, which paid for the development of the manual during three years of work by community groups, schools and youth organizations...
Once upon a time, when television was young, there was a network known as DuMont. It was the home of Jackie Gleason and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, and it broadcast the famous Army-McCarthy hearings in their entirety in 1954. But in 1955 it went out of business, and ever since, TV visionaries have dreamed of creating another commercial network to challenge the Big Three. A few half- hearted attempts have been made, but none have succeeded...
...next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four years. "Sure, it's high risk," he says. "But it's high return. If we succeed, we're going to have an asset worth billions." And if not, a place in the trivia books next to DuMont...
...appearances, too, are gone for good. A onetime actor and newspaper columnist, Kovacs began his TV career as a local daytime host on Philadelphia's WPTZ in 1950. He was soon picked up by NBC and worked at one time or another for four networks (including the short-lived DuMont), hosting everything from a cooking program to several live comedy-variety shows, as well as a series of innovative comedy specials...