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

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