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Originally Posted by bgadow
My understanding, from browsing the Emerson site a few years ago, was that it was still an American owned & operated company, but that it was nothing more than a sales company.
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That's what I was thinking too, and I'm pretty sure it was true a few years ago, but I'm not sure if it's still true or not.
I do kinda wonder what happened to the DuMont brand, though. I got the impression that Emerson eventually sold it off. Didn't it re-surface briefly in the late 70's - 80's, under a company name like "DuMont Television Sales Co." or something? SAMS index shows some Photofacts in the 2000-2200 range under DUMONT A. Given how so many old American brand names have been "ressurrected" lately for inexpensive imports, I'm surprised nobody's taken the DuMont name/logo.
It's funny how that sometimes works though; there was a time when the Packard-Bell name might have been associated with radios and TV's sold on the west coast, but now when most people see that name I'm sure they just think of cheap-and-crappy personal computers from the 1990's.