Talk:DuMont Television Network

Channel 1

 * ("channel 1" had been removed from television broadcasting use because storms and other types of interference could severely affect the quality of its signals)...

Who wrote this, the Motorola lobbyists?

Channel 1 was removed so that it could be reallocated to land-mobile radio. It's not that the TV broadcasters didn't want to keep it, given that VHF TV channels are already scarce enough.

The interference was a good argument (or an excuse) to use to lobby the FCC, but it's not the primary reason that analog OTA VHF TV permanently lost a channel.

(Digital TV is another matter... no one in their right mind wants VHF DT2 if anything else is available, but that couldn't have been foreseen in 1948.) 66.102.87.40 (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Motorola has lobbyists? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Salvageable? Not salvageable?

 * Although films submerged for decades have been successfully recovered… there have been no salvage-diving efforts to locate or recover the DuMont archive. If it survived in that environment, most of the films have likely been damaged. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time.

So what does this mean—that the DuMont films could be salvaged, or not? I'm getting passive-aggressive vibes here… Could it be a coy gambit that the films may be salvageable if someone cares enough to look for them? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

See also section
The "See also" section seems to me to be very long and I do not fully see why some of the entries are there as their connection to this article is something of a stretch. For instance "Death on the Rock" was an episode of  This Week, a British television programme broadcast several decades after the DuMont network had ceased broadcasting, so I fail to see how it's story is relevant to this article. Additionally the accompanying statement that it led "the loss of" Thames Television's "ITV franchise due to an alleged political motivations against airing it" is not something that has been proven - it has merely been suggested by some as an important factor in the decision, but this is certainly not universally accepted as the only cause and others have suggested other reasons. Likewise the 1939 Temporary shutdown of BBC Television Service (which links to an article about a Mickey Mouse cartoon) is in no way comparable to the demise of DuMount. Dunarc (talk) 21:02, 7 December 2022 (UTC)