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* ''[[Dixie Showboat]]'', a weekly variety program
* ''[[Dixie Showboat]]'', a weekly variety program
* ''[[Frosty Frolics]]'',<ref name="Roman">{{cite book| last = Roman| first = James| authorlink = | title = From Daytime to Primetime: the History of American Television Programs| publisher = Greenwood Press| date = 2005| location = Westport, CT| pages = 15| url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0313361692}}</ref> an ice skating show which also briefly aired (for four weeks) on ABC.
* ''[[Frosty Frolics]]'',<ref name="Roman">{{cite book| last = Roman| first = James| authorlink = | title = From Daytime to Primetime: the History of American Television Programs| publisher = Greenwood Press| date = 2005| location = Westport, CT| pages = 15| url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0313361692}}</ref> an ice skating show which also briefly aired (for four weeks) on ABC.
* ''[[Girls Only]]'' a comedy/drama starring [[Mary Gordon (actor)|Mary Gordon]] as an aging ex-actress with four young female charges<ref name="Independent1949b">{{Citation| last = | first = | title = 'Girls Only' (Nix, Men!)| newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 14c| year = | date = 1949-10-16| url = }}</ref>
* ''[[Girls Only]]'' a comedy/drama starring [[Mary Gordon (actor)|Mary Gordon]] as an aging ex-actress with four young female charges<ref name="Independent1949b">{{Cite news| last = | first = | title = 'Girls Only' (Nix, Men!)| newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 14c| year = | date = 1949-10-16| url = }}</ref>
* ''[[Hollywood Reel]]'', a Hollywood gossip program narrated by Hollywood columnist [[Erskine Johnson]]<ref name="Independent1951">{{Citation| last = | first = | title = Spinning the Dial| newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 34| year = | date = 1951-01-24| url = }}</ref>
* ''[[Hollywood Reel]]'', a Hollywood gossip program narrated by Hollywood columnist [[Erskine Johnson]]<ref name="Independent1951">{{Cite news| last = | first = | title = Spinning the Dial| newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 34| year = | date = 1951-01-24| url = }}</ref>
* ''[[Hollywood Wrestling]]'', a sports series
* ''[[Hollywood Wrestling]]'', a sports series
* ''[[Hollywood Opportunity]]'',<ref name="billboard1949">{{cite journal|date=1949-09-17|title=Para Mapping Kine Network|journal=Billboard|pages=13, 43|accessdate=2009-12-20}}</ref> a talent show
* ''[[Hollywood Opportunity]]'',<ref name="billboard1949">{{cite journal|date=1949-09-17|title=Para Mapping Kine Network|journal=Billboard|pages=13, 43|accessdate=2009-12-20}}</ref> a talent show
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|Baltimore
|Baltimore
|Maryland
|Maryland
|''Cowboy G-Men''<ref name="Billboard1954d"/><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="billboard1955e">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-08|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=12|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
|''Cowboy G-Men''<ref name="Billboard1954d"/><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="billboard1955e">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-08|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=12|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref>
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|[[KOOK-TV]]
|[[KOOK-TV]]
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|Cincinnati
|Cincinnati
|Ohio
|Ohio
|''Time For Beany''<ref name="HDNJ">{{cite news|title=Television Programs|date=1950-12-12|work=Hamilton Daily New Journal|pages=8|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=Hamilton, OH}}</ref><br>''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955r">{{cite journal|date=1955-08-27|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=18|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
|''Time For Beany''<ref name="HDNJ">{{cite news|title=Television Programs|date=1950-12-12|work=Hamilton Daily New Journal|pages=8|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=Hamilton, OH}}</ref><br>''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955r">{{cite journal|date=1955-08-27|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=18|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WEWS-TV]]
|[[WEWS-TV]]
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|[[Detroit]]
|[[Detroit]]
|Michigan
|Michigan
|''Time For Beany'' (c. 1953)<ref name="Billboard1953">{{cite journal|date=1953-07-25|title=14-City May ARB Ratings of Syndicated Shows|journal=Billboard|accessdate=2009-12-19}}</ref><br>''Cowboy G-Men'' (mid-1953)<ref name="Billboard1953"/><br>''Bandstand Revue'' (mid-1955)<ref name="billboard1955p">{{cite journal|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|date=1955-07-16|journal=Billboard|pages=9-10|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
|''Time For Beany'' (c. 1953)<ref name="Billboard1953">{{cite journal|date=1953-07-25|title=14-City May ARB Ratings of Syndicated Shows|journal=Billboard|accessdate=2009-12-19}}</ref><br>''Cowboy G-Men'' (mid-1953)<ref name="Billboard1953"/><br>''Bandstand Revue'' (mid-1955)<ref name="billboard1955p">{{cite journal|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|date=1955-07-16|journal=Billboard|pages=9–10|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WJBK]]
|[[WJBK]]
|Detroit
|Detroit
|Michigan
|Michigan
|''Cowboy G-Men'' (late 1953)<ref name="Billboard1953c">{{cite journal|date=1953-11-28|title=Syndicated Pix ARB Multi-City Ratings|journal=Billboard|pages=10|accessdate=2009-12-19}}</ref><br>''Bandstand Revue'' (late 1955)<ref name="billboard1955r">{{cite journal|date=1955-09-17|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=21|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref><br>''Time For Beany'' (c. 1952)<ref name="billboard1952g">{{cite journal|date=1952-11-22|title=ARB Ratings of Non-Network TV Films|journal=Billboard|pages=14|accessdate=2009-12-25}}</ref>
|''Cowboy G-Men'' (late 1953)<ref name="Billboard1953c">{{cite journal|date=1953-11-28|title=Syndicated Pix ARB Multi-City Ratings|journal=Billboard|pages=10|accessdate=2009-12-19}}</ref><br>''Bandstand Revue'' (late 1955)<ref name="billboard1955r">{{cite journal|date=1955-09-17|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=21|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref><br>''Time For Beany'' (c. 1952)<ref name="billboard1952g">{{cite journal|date=1952-11-22|title=ARB Ratings of Non-Network TV Films|journal=Billboard|pages=14|accessdate=2009-12-25}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WEAU-TV]]
|[[WEAU-TV]]
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|Fresno
|Fresno
|California
|California
|Various<ref name="Bee">{{Citation| last = | first = | title = | newspaper = Fresno Bee Republican| pages = 19| year = 1953| date = 1953-06-10| url = }}</ref>
|Various<ref name="Bee">{{Cite news| last = | first = | title = | newspaper = Fresno Bee Republican| pages = 19| year = 1953| date = 1953-06-10| url = }}</ref>
|-
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|[[WOOD-TV]]
|[[WOOD-TV]]
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|[[Minneapolis]]
|[[Minneapolis]]
|Minnesota
|Minnesota
|''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="billboard1955f">{{cite journal|date=1955-09-10|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=16|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
|''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="billboard1955f">{{cite journal|date=1955-09-10|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=16|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WCCO-TV]]
|[[WCCO-TV]]
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|Portland
|Portland
|Oregon
|Oregon
|''Time For Beany'' (c. 1952)<ref name="Billboard1952"/><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="Billboard1952"/><br>''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955q">{{cite journal|date=1955-07-30|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=10|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
|''Time For Beany'' (c. 1952)<ref name="Billboard1952"/><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="Billboard1952"/><br>''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955q">{{cite journal|date=1955-07-30|title=The Nation's Top Television Programs|journal=Billboard|pages=10|accessdate=2009-12-24|isbn=0375765204|author=the staff of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation & the staff of the Princeton Review.|publisher=Random House|location=New York}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WJAR]]
|[[WJAR]]
|[[Providence, RI|Providence]]
|[[Providence, RI|Providence]]
|Rhode Island
|Rhode Island
|''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955t">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-15|title=Market-By-Market Ratings|journal=Billboard|pages=9|accessdate=2009-12-25}}</ref>
|''Bandstand Revue''<ref name="billboard1955t">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-15|title=Market-By-Market Ratings|journal=Billboard|pages=9|accessdate=2009-12-25|isbn=0877594805|publisher=Edmund Publications Corp.|location=El Segundo, CA}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[KOLO-TV|KZTV]]
|[[KOLO-TV|KZTV]]
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|[[San Antonio]]
|[[San Antonio]]
|Texas
|Texas
|''Armchair Detective''<ref name="SALight">{{Citation| last = | first = | title = Hollywood shows on KEYL| newspaper = San Antonio Light| pages = 54| year = | date = 1950-02-19| url = }}</ref><br>''Latin Cruise''<ref name="SALight"/><br>''Hollywood Reel''<ref name="SAE">{{cite news|title=Radio & Television Listings|date=1953-08-23|work=San Antonio Express|pages=23|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="SAE1953">{{cite news|title=TV Programs For All Week|date=1953-01-25|work=San Antonio Express|pages=69|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Time For Beany''<ref name="SAE1951">{{cite news|date=1951-06-28|work=San Antonio Express|pages=9|accessdate=07 December 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Movietown, RSVP''<ref name="SAE1950d">{{cite news|url=http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files_RH/1950s_RH/50-54/1950/50rh_03Mar/50-03-24-%28Fri%29_%5BSAE%5D.pdf|title=Spotlighting the Dial|date=1950-03-24|work=San Antonio Express|pages=14B|accessdate=21 December 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref>
|''Armchair Detective''<ref name="SALight">{{Cite news| last = | first = | title = Hollywood shows on KEYL| newspaper = San Antonio Light| pages = 54| year = | date = 1950-02-19| url = }}</ref><br>''Latin Cruise''<ref name="SALight"/><br>''Hollywood Reel''<ref name="SAE">{{cite news|title=Radio & Television Listings|date=1953-08-23|work=San Antonio Express|pages=23|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Hollywood Wrestling''<ref name="SAE1953">{{cite news|title=TV Programs For All Week|date=1953-01-25|work=San Antonio Express|pages=69|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Time For Beany''<ref name="SAE1951">{{cite news|date=1951-06-28|work=San Antonio Express|pages=9|accessdate=07 December 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref><br>''Movietown, RSVP''<ref name="SAE1950d">{{cite news|url=http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files_RH/1950s_RH/50-54/1950/50rh_03Mar/50-03-24-%28Fri%29_%5BSAE%5D.pdf|title=Spotlighting the Dial|date=1950-03-24|work=San Antonio Express|pages=14B|accessdate=21 December 2009|location=San Antonio, TX}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[KFMB-TV]]
|[[KFMB-TV]]
|[[San Diego]]
|[[San Diego]]
|California
|California
|''Time For Beany''<ref name="RDF">{{cite news|title=Television|date=1952-12-05|work=Redlands Daily Facts|pages=12|accessdate=28 November 2009|location=Redlands, CA}}</ref><br>Coaxial cable feeds<ref name="Independent1949a">{{Citation| last = | first = | title = First Coast Network: KTLA Pioneers in Hookup with San Diego | newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 14c| year = | date = 1949-10-16| url = }}</ref>
|''Time For Beany''<ref name="RDF">{{cite news|title=Television|date=1952-12-05|work=Redlands Daily Facts|pages=12|accessdate=28 November 2009|location=Redlands, CA}}</ref><br>Coaxial cable feeds<ref name="Independent1949a">{{Cite news| last = | first = | title = First Coast Network: KTLA Pioneers in Hookup with San Diego | newspaper = Long Beach Independent| pages = 14c| year = | date = 1949-10-16| url = }}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[KGO-TV]]
|[[KGO-TV]]
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|[[Wichita Falls, TX|Wichita Falls]]
|[[Wichita Falls, TX|Wichita Falls]]
|Texas
|Texas
|''Cowboy G-Men''<ref name="TARN">{{cite news|title=Radio, Television Log|date=1954-01-31|work=The Abilene Reporter-News|pages=10-D|accessdate=07 December 2009|location=Abilene, TX}}</ref>
|''Cowboy G-Men''<ref name="TARN">{{cite news|title=Radio, Television Log|date=1954-01-31|work=The Abilene Reporter-News|pages=10–D|accessdate=07 December 2009|location=Abilene, TX}}</ref>
|-
|-
|[[WSBA-TV]]
|[[WSBA-TV]]
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With just one owned and operated station, Paramount's program service never gelled into a true television network. While the Paramount series ''Time For Beany'' was widely seen on stations across the United States, most other Paramount television programs were seen in only a handful of markets (another exception, ''Hollywood Reel'', had been seen in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Syracuse, and Washington, DC in 1950).<ref name="DEO">{{cite news|title=In Hollywood|last=Johnston|first=Erskine|date=1950-02-18|work=Dunkirk Evening Observer|pages=7|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=Dunkirk, NY}}</ref>
With just one owned and operated station, Paramount's program service never gelled into a true television network. While the Paramount series ''Time For Beany'' was widely seen on stations across the United States, most other Paramount television programs were seen in only a handful of markets (another exception, ''Hollywood Reel'', had been seen in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Syracuse, and Washington, DC in 1950).<ref name="DEO">{{cite news|title=In Hollywood|last=Johnston|first=Erskine|date=1950-02-18|work=Dunkirk Evening Observer|pages=7|accessdate=27 November 2009|location=Dunkirk, NY}}</ref>


American Vitamin Corporation, Paramount's sponsor for both ''The Spade Cooley Show'' and ''Frosty Frolics'', pulled its sponsorship in October 1951.<ref name="Billboard1951b">{{cite journal|date=1951-10-20|title=AVC Pulls Out of TV|journal=Billboard|pages=11|accessdate=2009-12-21}}</ref> Chicago's WBKB and San Francisco's KPIX dropped ''Time For Beany'' in 1953 (Crosstown stations WGN-TV and [[KGO-TV]] picked the series up soon thereafter).<ref name="TDR">{{cite news|title=Video Notes|last=Walker|first=Ellis|date=1953-12-21|work=The Daily Review|accessdate=26 November 2009|location=Hayward, CA}}</ref> In June 1953 it was announced that ''Time For Beany'' and Paramount Television Productions were "calling it a day".<ref name="TYDS">{{cite news|title=Hollywood on TV|date=1953-06-23|work=The Yuma Daily Sun|pages=12|accessdate=28 November 2009|location=Yuma, AZ}}</ref> Despite the cancellation announcement, ''Beany'' continued to air until 1955,<ref name="McNeil">{{cite book|last=McNeil|first=Alex|title=Total Television|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|date=1997|edition=4th|pages=840|isbn=0-14-024916-8}}</ref> the result of the public outcry at the cancellation of the award-winning series. In October 1953, Mutual and Paramount announced they were seeking outside distributors for their joint production, ''Cowboy G-Men''.<ref name="billboard1953m">{{cite journal|date=1953-10-31|title=Distribution Sought for Cowboy G-Men|journal=Billboard|pages=12|accessdate=2009-12-21}}</ref> An independent syndicator, Flamingo Films, took over distribution of ''Cowboy G-Men'' in 1954;<ref name="billboard1955">{{cite journal|date=1955-01-08|title='54 Marked by Mergers in Hot Syndication Competition|journal=Billboard|pages=5|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref> the same year, ''Time for Beany'' became a property of Consolidated TV.<ref name="billboard1955b">{{cite journal|date=1954-12-25|title=Top 25 Vidfilms Among Kiddies|journal=Billboard|pages=8|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref> By late 1955, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' reported the Paramount Network consisted of just 15 stations airing ''Bandstand Revue''. ''Billboard'' called this a "sort of" network.<ref name="billboard1955s">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-08|title=Para Looms as TV Biggie of Majors|journal=Billboard|pages=2-6|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>
American Vitamin Corporation, Paramount's sponsor for both ''The Spade Cooley Show'' and ''Frosty Frolics'', pulled its sponsorship in October 1951.<ref name="Billboard1951b">{{cite journal|date=1951-10-20|title=AVC Pulls Out of TV|journal=Billboard|pages=11|accessdate=2009-12-21}}</ref> Chicago's WBKB and San Francisco's KPIX dropped ''Time For Beany'' in 1953 (Crosstown stations WGN-TV and [[KGO-TV]] picked the series up soon thereafter).<ref name="TDR">{{cite news|title=Video Notes|last=Walker|first=Ellis|date=1953-12-21|work=The Daily Review|accessdate=26 November 2009|location=Hayward, CA}}</ref> In June 1953 it was announced that ''Time For Beany'' and Paramount Television Productions were "calling it a day".<ref name="TYDS">{{cite news|title=Hollywood on TV|date=1953-06-23|work=The Yuma Daily Sun|pages=12|accessdate=28 November 2009|location=Yuma, AZ}}</ref> Despite the cancellation announcement, ''Beany'' continued to air until 1955,<ref name="McNeil">{{cite book|last=McNeil|first=Alex|title=Total Television|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|date=1997|edition=4th|pages=840|isbn=0-14-024916-8}}</ref> the result of the public outcry at the cancellation of the award-winning series. In October 1953, Mutual and Paramount announced they were seeking outside distributors for their joint production, ''Cowboy G-Men''.<ref name="billboard1953m">{{cite journal|date=1953-10-31|title=Distribution Sought for Cowboy G-Men|journal=Billboard|pages=12|accessdate=2009-12-21}}</ref> An independent syndicator, Flamingo Films, took over distribution of ''Cowboy G-Men'' in 1954;<ref name="billboard1955">{{cite journal|date=1955-01-08|title='54 Marked by Mergers in Hot Syndication Competition|journal=Billboard|pages=5|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref> the same year, ''Time for Beany'' became a property of Consolidated TV.<ref name="billboard1955b">{{cite journal|date=1954-12-25|title=Top 25 Vidfilms Among Kiddies|journal=Billboard|pages=8|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref> By late 1955, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' reported the Paramount Network consisted of just 15 stations airing ''Bandstand Revue''. ''Billboard'' called this a "sort of" network.<ref name="billboard1955s">{{cite journal|date=1955-10-08|title=Para Looms as TV Biggie of Majors|journal=Billboard|pages=2–6|accessdate=2009-12-24}}</ref>


By Autumn 1955, Hollywood insiders were predicting that Paramount would launch a major television network using the DuMont stations. Articles reported that Paramount was seeking television scripts and was constructing theaters and studios which rivaled those of ABC, CBS, and NBC.<ref name="billboard1955s"/> Paramount's Board of Directors seized control of DuMont Laboratories in a [[boardroom coup]] in August 1955. DuMont's board of directors was replaced by Paramount executives. Dr. DuMont was removed as president of the company, and DuMont Network operations ceased the following year. Paramount sold its interest in DuMont (by this time renamed "Metropolitan Broadcasting Company") in 1959;<ref name="Weinstein">{{cite book|last=Weinstein|first=David|title=The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television|publisher=Temple University Press|date=2004|pages=38|isbn=1592134998|accessdate=2009-12-22}}</ref> the sale ended Paramount's first, early ventures into network television.
By Autumn 1955, Hollywood insiders were predicting that Paramount would launch a major television network using the DuMont stations. Articles reported that Paramount was seeking television scripts and was constructing theaters and studios which rivaled those of ABC, CBS, and NBC.<ref name="billboard1955s"/> Paramount's Board of Directors seized control of DuMont Laboratories in a [[boardroom coup]] in August 1955. DuMont's board of directors was replaced by Paramount executives. Dr. DuMont was removed as president of the company, and DuMont Network operations ceased the following year. Paramount sold its interest in DuMont (by this time renamed "Metropolitan Broadcasting Company") in 1959;<ref name="Weinstein">{{cite book|last=Weinstein|first=David|title=The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television|publisher=Temple University Press|date=2004|pages=38|isbn=1592134998|accessdate=2009-12-22}}</ref> the sale ended Paramount's first, early ventures into network television.

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Paramount Television Network
TypeBroadcast television network
Country
United States
OwnerParamount Pictures
Key people
Klaus Landsberg (Producer)
Paul Raibourn (President, KTLA)
George T. Shupert (Vice-president, Paramount Television Productions)
Launch date
January 1949
Dissolved1955

The Paramount Television Network was an ill-fated attempt by American film corporation Paramount Pictures to launch a successful television network in 1949.[1] The company had built television stations KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB in Chicago. It had also invested $400,000 in the DuMont Television Network, which operated stations in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh.

The Paramount Television Network aired several television programs, among them Emmy winner Time For Beany. Well-known stars, such as musician Spade Cooley, actor Jackie Coogan, actress Mary Gordon, and bandleader Lawrence Welk, appeared in Paramount television programs, which were filmed in Hollywood and distributed to an ad-hoc network of stations. Despite having over 40 affiliate stations in 1950, Paramount's series were never widely viewed outside the West Coast, and Paramount was prevented from acquiring additional television stations by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Paramount eventually gave up on the idea of a television network, but continued to produce series for other networks. In 1995, Paramount would again enter the network industry.

Launch

As early as 1937, executives at Paramount Pictures had been interested in what was then the new medium of television. The following year, Paramount purchased a 40% interest in DuMont Laboratories, a pioneer in early television technology founded by Dr. Allen B. DuMont. Relations between Paramount and DuMont were strained as early as 1940, when Paramount, without DuMont, opened Chicago television station WBKB and Los Angeles station KTLA. Dr. DuMont claimed that the original 1937 acquisition proposal required that Paramount would expand its television interests "through DuMont". Paramount representative Paul Raibourn denied that any such restriction had ever been discussed (DuMont was vindicated on this point by a 1953 examination of the original draft document).[2]

DuMont Laboratories launched the DuMont Television Network in 1946. Despite Paramount's partial ownership of DuMont, Paramount's two stations never aired television programs from DuMont's television network (with the exception of one year on KTLA in 1947–48), and in fact competed against DuMont's affiliates in Los Angeles and Chicago.[3] Paramount's construction of KTLA and WBKB, and its subsequent launch of the Paramount Television Network, "undercut" DuMont, a company it had invested in.[4]

Paramount launched its own network, the Paramount Television Network, in January 1949 with a full-page advertisement in Television magazine.[5] Filming of programs took place at Paramount station KTLA in Los Angeles. A coaxial cable link between KTLA and KFMB-TV in San Diego transmitted the signal to San Diego viewers.[6] Other television stations across the country received Paramount programs via kinescope for airing. Paramount also planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations; the company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.[7]

Paramount's applications for three additional owned-and-operated stations, however, were denied by the FCC. A few years earlier, the FCC had placed a five-station cap on all television networks: no network was allowed to own more than five television stations. Paramount was hampered by its stake in the DuMont Television Network. The FCC ruled that Paramount's partial ownership of DuMont meant that DuMont and Paramount were in theory branches of the same company. Since DuMont owned three television stations and Paramount owned two, the federal agency ruled neither network could acquire additional television stations. Although the FCC requested that Paramount relinquish its stake in DuMont, Paramount refused.[7] According to at least one television historian, "Paramount's checkered antitrust history" helped convince the FCC that Paramount controlled DuMont.[8] Both television networks suffered as a result, with neither company able to acquire five owned-and-operated stations. Having five O&Os was critical because it meant the network's shows would be seen in at least five major American cities. Meanwhile, CBS, ABC and NBC had each acquired the maximum of five stations by the mid-1950s.

Programs

The Paramount Television Network aired several television series during its years of operations. The following is a partial list:

Affiliates

At its peak in late 1950, the Paramount Television Network was distributing five television series a week to over 40 affiliated television stations.[1] The table below lists stations which carried Paramount Television Network programs. Paramount's owned-and-operated (O&O) stations are highlighted. A number of stations carried Armchair Detective, Sandy Dreams, and Frosty Frolics when those programs were aired on CBS and ABC. Stations which aired those programs as part of an ABC or CBS affiliation are not shown in the table below.

Station City State Paramount
programs
aired
KTLA Los Angeles California O&O station[1]
WBKB Chicago Illinois O&O station (until 1953)[1]
WLEV-TV Allentown Pennsylvania Hollywood Wrestling[19]
KFDA-TV Amarillo Texas Hollywood Wrestling[20]
WAGA-TV Atlanta Georgia Cowboy G-Men[21]
WBAL-TV Baltimore Maryland Hollywood Wrestling[22]
WAAM-TV Baltimore Maryland Cowboy G-Men[23]
Hollywood Wrestling[24]
KOOK-TV Billings Montana Time For Beany[25]
WBRC Birmingham Alabama Hollywood Reel[26]
Time For Beany[27]
KBOI-TV Boise Idaho Time For Beany[28]
WBZ-TV Boston Massachusetts Cowboy G-Men[29]
WNAC-TV Boston Massachusetts Time For Beany[30]
Dixie Showboat[31]
Hollywood Reel[32]
Armchair Detective[33]
WBEN-TV Buffalo New York Hollywood Reel[34]
Time For Beany[35]
KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids Iowa Hollywood Wrestling[36]
WSAZ-TV Charleston West Virginia Cowboy G-Men[37]
WBTV Charlotte North Carolina Cowboy G-Men[38]
Hollywood Wrestling[39]
WENR-TV Chicago Illinois Hollywood Reel[40]
WGN-TV Chicago Illinois Time For Beany
(after October 1952)[41]
WCPO-TV Cincinnati Ohio Cowboy G-Men[42]
WKRC-TV Cincinnati Ohio Time For Beany[43]
Bandstand Revue[44]
WEWS-TV Cleveland Ohio Time For Beany[45]
Hollywood Reel[46]
Frosty Frolics[47]
WJW-TV Cleveland Ohio Hollywood Wrestling[48]
WNBK Cleveland Ohio Hollywood Reel[49]
Bandstand Revue[50]
WBNS-TV Columbus Ohio Time For Beany[51]
Cowboy G-Men[52]
WFAA Dallas Texas Hollywood Wrestling[53]
4.75 hrs of Paramount per wk[15]
KRLD-TV Dallas Texas Time For Beany[54]
Cowboy G-Men[55]
WOC-TV Davenport Iowa Hollywood Reel[56]
Hollywood Wrestling[57]
Cowboy G-Men[58]
WHIO-TV Dayton Ohio Hollywood Wrestling[59]
KBTV Denver Colorado Hollywood Reel[60]
Hollywood Wrestling[11]
KFEL-TV Denver Colorado Time For Beany[61]
Hollywood Wrestling[62]
WOI-TV Des Moines Iowa Hollywood Reel[63]
WWJ-TV Detroit Michigan Time For Beany (c. 1953)[42]
Cowboy G-Men (mid-1953)[42]
Bandstand Revue (mid-1955)[64]
WJBK Detroit Michigan Cowboy G-Men (late 1953)[21]
Bandstand Revue (late 1955)[44]
Time For Beany (c. 1952)[65]
WEAU-TV Eau Claire Wisconsin Hollywood Wrestling[66]
KTSM-TV El Paso Texas Time For Beany[67]
KJEO-TV Fresno California Cowboy G-Men[68]
KMJ-TV Fresno California Various[69]
WOOD-TV Grand Rapids Michigan Hollywood Wrestling[70]
KGMB Honolulu Hawaii Time For Beany[60]
KPRC-TV Houston Texas Time For Beany[71]
Hollywood Wrestling[72]
Cowboy G-Men[73]
KID-TV Idaho Falls Idaho Hollywood Wrestling[74]
WFBM-TV Indianapolis Indiana Time For Beany[75]
Dixie Showboat[76]
Hollywood Reel[77]
Cowboy G-Men[78]
WJTV Jackson Mississippi Hollywood Wrestling[19]
KCMO-TV Kansas City Missouri Cowboy G-Men (late 1953)[79]
WDAF-TV Kansas City Missouri Hollywood Reel[80]
Cowboy G-Men (mid-1953)[81]
WAVE-TV Louisville Kentucky Cowboy G-Men[82]
KSWO-TV Lawton Oklahoma Time For Beany[19]
Hollywood Wrestling[19]
KOLN Lincoln Nebraska Time For Beany[19]
KARK-TV Little Rock Arkansas Cowboy G-Men[83]
KDUB-TV Lubbock Texas Time For Beany[84]
Station City State Paramount
programs
aired
WLVA-TV Lynchburg Virginia Hollywood Wrestling[19]
WMCT Memphis Tennessee Cowboy G-Men[85]
WCOC-TV Meridian Mississippi Time For Beany[28]
WISN-TV Milwaukee Wisconsin Bandstand Revue[86]
WTMJ-TV Milwaukee Wisconsin Hollywood Reel[87]
Cowboy G-Men[88]
KEYD-TV Minneapolis Minnesota Hollywood Wrestling[11]
WCCO-TV Minneapolis Minnesota Cowboy G-Men[89]
WSM-TV Nashville Tennessee Cowboy G-Men[68]
WNHC-TV New Haven Connecticut Armchair Detective[90]
WPIX New York City New York Dixie Showboat[91]
Cowboy G-Men[42]
WKY-TV Oklahoma City Oklahoma Time For Beany[92]
WOW-TV Omaha Nebraska Hollywood Reel[93]
WBAY-TV Oshkosh Wisconsin Time For Beany[94]
WJDM-TV Panama City Florida Time For Beany[95]
WPTZ Philadelphia Pennsylvania Cowboy G-Men[96]
WCAU Philadelphia Pennsylvania Time For Beany[97]
Armchair Detective[98]
WFIL-TV Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hollywood Reel[49]
Frosty Frolics[99]
Sandy Dreams[100]
KPHO-TV Phoenix Arizona Time For Beany[101]
WDTV Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Hollywood Reel[102]
Cowboy G-Men[23]
KOIN Portland Oregon Time For Beany (c. 1954)[103]
KPTV Portland Oregon Time For Beany (c. 1952)[62]
Hollywood Wrestling[62]
Bandstand Revue[104]
WJAR Providence Rhode Island Bandstand Revue[86]
KZTV Reno Nevada Time For Beany[105]
Bandstand Revue[106]
Rochester New York Hollywood Reel[107]
WHBF-TV Rock Island Illinois Time For Beany[108]
KFEQ-TV St. Joseph Missouri Cowboy G-Men[109]
KSD-TV St. Louis Missouri Cowboy G-Men[110]
Time For Beany[111]
Bandstand Revue[47]
St. Louis Missouri Hollywood Reel[107]
KSTP-TV St. Paul Minnesota Hollywood Wrestling[112]
Bandstand Revue[11]
KDYL-TV Salt Lake City Utah Time For Beany[113]
KSL Salt Lake City Utah Hollywood Reel[114]
KEYL San Antonio Texas Armchair Detective[9]
Latin Cruise[9]
Hollywood Reel[115]
Hollywood Wrestling[116]
Time For Beany[117]
Movietown, RSVP[118]
KFMB-TV San Diego California Time For Beany[119]
Coaxial cable feeds[6]
KGO-TV San Francisco California Time For Beany (late 1953)[120]
Hollywood Reel[121]
Sandy Dreams[122]
Hollywood Wrestling[24]
KPIX San Francisco California [46]
Frosty Frolics[123]
Time For Beany (mid-1953)[42]
Cowboy G-Men[124]
Bandstand Revue[104]
WRGB Schenectady New York Time For Beany[125]
KING-TV Seattle Washington Time for Beany[126]
KTVW Seattle Washington Hollywood Wrestling[11]
KOMO-TV Seattle Washington Bandstand Revue[11]
KELO-TV Sioux Falls South Dakota Hollywood Wrestling[127]
KHQ-TV Spokane Washington Time For Beany[128]
WWLP Springfield Massachusetts Time For Beany[19]
WHEN-TV Syracuse New York Hollywood Reel[129]
KMO-TV Tacoma Washington Hollywood Wrestling[130]
WSPD-TV Toledo Ohio Cowboy G-Men[131]
KOTV Tulsa Oklahoma Various[132]
KVVG-TV Visalia California Time For Beany[133]
WMAL-TV Washington District
of Columbia 		Time For Beany (c. 1954)[134]
WTOP-TV Washington District
of Columbia 		Time For Beany (c. 1951)[135]
Bandstand Revue[136]
WTTG Washington District
of Columbia 		Time For Beany (c. 1952)[137]
Hollywood Reel[138]
KWWL Waterloo Iowa Cowboy G-Men[139]
Time For Beany[140]
KWFT-TV Wichita Falls Texas Cowboy G-Men[141]
WSBA-TV York Pennsylvania Hollywood Wrestling[19]

End of network

The 1953 merger of ABC and Paramount's former movie theater chain, United Paramount Theatres, lead to the divestiture of Paramount's Chicago station, WBKB, which was sold to CBS (it is now WBBM-TV). Paramount retained its Los Angeles station, KTLA, and applied to the FCC for a new station in Boston, but the construction permit was never granted.[2]

With just one owned and operated station, Paramount's program service never gelled into a true television network. While the Paramount series Time For Beany was widely seen on stations across the United States, most other Paramount television programs were seen in only a handful of markets (another exception, Hollywood Reel, had been seen in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Syracuse, and Washington, DC in 1950).[107]

American Vitamin Corporation, Paramount's sponsor for both The Spade Cooley Show and Frosty Frolics, pulled its sponsorship in October 1951.[142] Chicago's WBKB and San Francisco's KPIX dropped Time For Beany in 1953 (Crosstown stations WGN-TV and KGO-TV picked the series up soon thereafter).[120] In June 1953 it was announced that Time For Beany and Paramount Television Productions were "calling it a day".[143] Despite the cancellation announcement, Beany continued to air until 1955,[144] the result of the public outcry at the cancellation of the award-winning series. In October 1953, Mutual and Paramount announced they were seeking outside distributors for their joint production, Cowboy G-Men.[145] An independent syndicator, Flamingo Films, took over distribution of Cowboy G-Men in 1954;[146] the same year, Time for Beany became a property of Consolidated TV.[147] By late 1955, Billboard reported the Paramount Network consisted of just 15 stations airing Bandstand Revue. Billboard called this a "sort of" network.[148]

By Autumn 1955, Hollywood insiders were predicting that Paramount would launch a major television network using the DuMont stations. Articles reported that Paramount was seeking television scripts and was constructing theaters and studios which rivaled those of ABC, CBS, and NBC.[148] Paramount's Board of Directors seized control of DuMont Laboratories in a boardroom coup in August 1955. DuMont's board of directors was replaced by Paramount executives. Dr. DuMont was removed as president of the company, and DuMont Network operations ceased the following year. Paramount sold its interest in DuMont (by this time renamed "Metropolitan Broadcasting Company") in 1959;[149] the sale ended Paramount's first, early ventures into network television.

However, Paramount retained KTLA, and executives at Paramount continued to toy with the idea of entering the television medium once more. The company produced series seen on the "big three" television networks (after acquiring Desilu Productions), and in 1978 planned to launch the Paramount Television Service, a new "fourth" television network; its programming would have consisted of only one night a week. Thirty "Movies of the Week" would have followed Star Trek: Phase II on Saturday nights. This plan was aborted when the decision was made to transform Phase II into Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

On January 16, 1995, Paramount launched the United Paramount Network (UPN), a new broadcast television network. Despite eleven years on the air, UPN never made a profit;[150] the network ceased operations in 2006, when it merged with the WB Television Network to form the CW Television Network.[151] Today Paramount's television division is part of CBS Television Studios.

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