I'm So Bored . . . · 4:46pm May 16th, 2016
. . . that I went back to my birthplace in New York and found this gem from present-day Fox 5:
This is Stewart Klein, reviewing a stage play about opera singer Edith Piaf - and REALLY not enjoying the show.
About 9 years from the date of its taping, WNEW-TV 5, along with Metromedia's other TV stations, was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which also controlled the 20th Century Fox film studio, to become the flagship station of the new Fox TV Network (its call letters were changed to the current WNYW as a result). But nearly 35 years before, Channel 5 was WABD, the flagship station of the original "fourth" U.S. TV network, DuMont, named after TV pioneer Dr. Allen B. DuMont and his DuMont Laboratories, which launched the station in 1944. Go to Clarke Ingram's great site devoted to the history of DuMont, http://www.DuMontNetwork.com to learn more.
