Federal Communications Commission
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
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content: Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection
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content: 1940-[1959]
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0018, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: This series provides extensive documentation on the development of broadcast television in the United States, showing the process of setting standards for engineering practices, frequency allocation, and color technology.  It consists of Federal Communications materials directly related to or collected by DuMont Laboratories, Inc.  Allen Du Mont frequently testified before the FCC.  The series includes copies of his National Television Allocation Plan, a plan for frequency allocation, 1949 1951.  There are also numerous materials submitted as exhibits by Du
Mont and others to augment their testimony.  There are four folders of materials from the National Television System Committee in 1940.  The subject of Docket #6651 is frequency allocation for broadcasting stations; additional materials on this are in series 7. Docket 16780 concerns rules and regulations, standards for good engineering, practice, commercial TV stations. Dockets J7014 7017, 7019, 7021 focus on TV station construction permits.  Docket #7846 concerns Columbia Broadcasting System plans for changes in standards and rules of good
engineering, practice, standards for color television.  It is connected with Du Mont's 1951 lawsuit with CBS over color television, documented in series 4. Docket #7896 is also concerned with color television hearings.  Dockets #8487, 8736, and 9552 are about allocation of frequencies and television stations.  Dockets 110031 10034, 10046 10047 focus on transfer of control of TV stations, including DuMont Network stations, to Paramount.  Docket 19288 concerns use of restricted radiation devices in broadcasting.  Docket #11331 is about telephone communication of TV broadcasts.  Land mobile communication, the subject of Docket #11997, represents a later Du Mont interest (see also Series 12, Mobile Communications subseries). The materials are arranged primarily by docket number; since those numbers also proceed roughly chronologically, items without docket numbers are placed by date. There are a number of undated items at the end of the series.