American film corporation Paramount Pictures to organize a television
network. The company had built television stations KTLA in Los Angeles
and WBKB in Chicago, and had 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 programs,
including the Emmy award-winning children's series Time for Beany, and
distributed them to an ad-hoc network of stations. It signed affiliation
agreements with more than 50 television stations in 1950; despite this,
most of Paramount's series were not widely viewed outside the West
Coast. The Federal Communications Commission prevented the studio from
acquiring additional television stations. Escalating disputes between
Paramount and DuMont concerning breaches of contract, company control,
and network competition erupted regularly between 1940 and 1956, and led
to the dismantling of the DuMont Network. Paramount continued to produce
series for other networks, and re-entered the broadcast network field in
1995 with the United Paramount Network.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television_Network>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1535:
The appearance of sun dogs over Stockholm, Sweden, inspired the
painting Vädersolstavlan, the oldest colour depiction of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4dersolstavlan>
1828:
French explorer René Caillié became the first confirmed non-
Muslim to enter Timbuktu, for which he later received a 10,000-franc
prize from the Société de géographie.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cailli%C3%A9>
1939:
Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national
holiday in Nazi Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_50th_birthday>
1999:
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on a massacre,
killing 13 people and wounding over 20 others before committing suicide
at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre>
2008:
Fernando Lugo became the first non-Colorado Party candidate to
be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_general_election,_2008>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
capias:
(law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified
person or persons into custody.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capias>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the
great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but
those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting
soul, the solution of all things.
--Dinah Craik
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik>
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