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''Boxing from Eastern Parkway'' was an American sports program broadcast by the
DuMont Television Network The DuMont Television Network (also the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in ...
from May 1952 to May 1954. The program aired
boxing matches Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing punches at each other for a pred ...
from
Eastern Parkway Arena Eastern Parkway Arena was a sports venue located in Brownsville, Brooklyn. First operated as an indoor roller rink, in 1944 it was bought by dress manufacturer Emil Lence and his father John Lence, who converted it to a boxing club in 1947. The ar ...
in
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. The program aired Monday nights at 10 pm ET and was 90 to 120 minutes long. During the 1953-1954 season, the program aired Mondays at 9 pm ET.DuMont historical website


Episode status

The
UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the film preservation, preservation, film studies, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a nonpro ...
has about 30 episodes in its collection, dating from December 1952 to October 1953.


See also

*
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network This is a list of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1942 to 1956. All regularly scheduled programs which were aired on the DuMont network are listed below, regardless of whether they origi ...
*
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recov ...
* 1952-53 United States network television schedule * 1953-54 United States network television schedule *'' Boxing from Jamaica Arena'' (September 1948 – 1949) *'' Amateur Boxing Fight Club'' (September 1949 – 1950) *'' Wrestling from Marigold'' (September 1949 – 1955) *''
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena ''Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena'' is an American Broadcasting of sports events, sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the DuMont Television Network from 1954 to the network's closure in 1955, and was their f ...
'' (1954-1956) *'' Saturday Night at the Garden'' (1950-1951)


References


Bibliography

*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach ...
, 2004) *Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the ...
, 1980) *Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
Ballantine Books Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Ballantine was founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. Ballantine was acquired by Random House in ...
, 1964) {{ISBN, 0-345-31864-1


External links


Brief history of Eastern Parkway Arena
1952 American television series debuts 1954 American television series endings 1950s American sports television series Black-and-white American television shows DuMont Television Network original programming American English-language television shows Boxing television series DuMont sports programming