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Originally Posted by Tubejunke
But I wonder why I saw DuMont sets in the 80s in dime stores. Is there any fragment at all of the company still out there?
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All of the 1960's DuMont's were built by Emerson; they tended to have fancier cabinets and different control panels but underneath they were Emerson. After 1970 Emerson no longer built TV sets; for a time Admiral built the Emerson & DuMont branded stuff. At some point Emerson became just a marketing company; that's what they were when they sold all those cheap VCR's and TV sets at discount stores in the '80s. I don't know if they retained the DuMont name at that point or if they sold it to somebody else in the 70s. I lean toward the latter. I think the name might have ended up belonging to whoever owned the Capehart name as I've seen similar service manuals for both brands, for cheap stereos in the mid/late 70s.