Editing DuMont Television Network (section)

==Fate of the DuMont stations==
All three DuMont-owned stations still are operating and are [[owned-and-operated station]]s (O&O's) of their respective networks, just as when they were part of DuMont. Of the three, only Washington's WTTG still has its original call letters.<ref>See the individual station histories, [[WNYW-TV]], [[KDKA-TV]], [[WTTG]], for details. </ref>

WTTG and New York's WABD (later WNEW-TV, and now WNYW) survived as Metromedia-owned independents until 1986, when they were purchased by the [[News Corporation]] to form the nucleus of the new [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox television network]]. [[Clarke Ingram]], who maintained a DuMont memorial site, has suggested that Fox can be considered a revival, or at least a linear descendant, of DuMont.<ref name="DTNHWS">[[Clarke Ingram|Ingram, C.]] (2002). [https://www.uhfhistory.com/DuMont/9.html DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027143941/https://dumonthistory.com/9.html |date=October 27, 2010 }}. Retrieved on December 28, 2006.</ref>

Westinghouse changed WDTV's call letters to [[KDKA-TV]] after the [[KDKA (AM)|pioneering radio station]] of the same name, and switched its primary affiliation to [[CBS]] immediately after the sale. Westinghouse's acquisition of CBS in 1995 made KDKA-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station.

Two of the four primary DuMont affiliates would also eventually join Fox. KTTV would be purchased by DuMont descendant Metromedia in 1963 and ended up being one of the charter Fox O&O's alongside WNYW and WTTG.<ref>"KTTV to Metromedia for $10 million plus." ''Broadcasting'', January 14, 1963, pg. 9. [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/63-OCR/1963-01-14-BC-0009.pdf]{{dead link|date=July 2013}}</ref> WSYX (the former WTVN-TV), which became a primary ABC affiliate upon DuMont's collapse after serving as a dual affiliate of both networks, added Fox programming to its third [[digital subchannel]] in 2021 when present day owners [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] consolidated the [[intellectual property]] of [[Local marketing agreement|LMA]] sister station [[WTTE]] (including its "Fox 28" branding) onto WSYX as part of fellow LMA sister station [[WWHO]]'s conversation to [[ATSC 3.0]].<ref name="sbg-nctc">{{cite web|url=https://www.nctconline.org/index.php/members/resources/technical-notices/item/1690-sinclair-acquisition-of-fox-affiliation|title=Sinclair - Acquisition of Fox affiliation|date=January 1, 2021|publisher=Sinclair Broadcast Group/National Cable Television Cooperative|access-date=December 3, 2021|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203081413/https://www.nctconline.org/index.php/members/resources/technical-notices/item/1690-sinclair-acquisition-of-fox-affiliation|url-status=dead}}</ref> WGN-TV and KWGN-TV (the former KFEL-TV) are both currently owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]] as O&O's of The CW.