http://www.dumonthistory.tv/

A series of Web pages devoted to the DuMont Television Network, America's fourth television network which operated from 1946 to 1956. After searching for such a page for some time, the author decided to fill the void himself by creating a site devoted to DuMont. This was the first, and is still the largest, DuMont resource on the Internet.

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Forgotten no longer: the DuMont network and American television.(The Forgotten Network: Dumont and the Birth of American Television)(Book Review): An article ... Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Who killed captain video? How the FCC strangled a TV pioneer.(The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television)(Book Review): An article from: Reason

WTTG-TV Air check Booth Announcements 1960

In the early 1960's television booth announcements were all transmitted live and announcers worked 8 hour shifts. WTTG-TV5 was Washington DC's independent station but carried early Dumont network programs. It was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting (John W Kluge) and was sister station to WNEW-TV New York and KTLA-TV Los Angeles. Later MetroMedia became the corporate name. Today WTTG-TV is the FOX TV affiliate in Washington DC. Here is a live booth audio segment with movie close, break, prom ...

1960 AirCheck at Archive.org (Features voices of staff announcers at the time: Dick Morgan, Alan Campbell and Bill Johnson) Located in Raleigh Hotel, downtown Washington, DC.

Interview with Lee Reynolds / Cap'n Tugg WTTG-TV 1950s

WTTG-TV, Washington, DC

Photos WTTG-TV studios in the 

The Raleigh Hotel - Washington, D.C
14th and Pennsylvania Ave., taken by RACampbell in early 1960's:

WTTG-TV-5, Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, Washington, D.C.


In the very early years WTTG-TV was part of the DuMont network. (See gnn info site for photo of Allen B. DuMont). DuMont's Dr. Thomas T. Goldsmith (T T G) owned station, CH 5, Washington, DC. One of their popular children's programs, Captain Video, was produced at WTTG and the scenic flats were still stored in the main studio in the '60's.

R A Campbell worked at a few stations in DC area while attending American University...weekends, evenings, fill-in, vacations etc. and announced, live, in 'the booth' at WTTG Channel 5 when they were in the Raliegh Hotel across the street from the FCC building. Was owned by John Kluge's Metropolitan Broadcasting (WNEW, NYC and KTTV, LA) which became the METROMEDIA empire. WTTG eventually moved to 5151 Wisconsin Avenue...and became a FOX affiliate.

wiki/WTTG-TV 5 Washington DC

Lee Reynolds "Cap'n Tugg" - Out of the Past - 1993 from Chuck Langdon on Vimeo.