The Paramount Television Network was a venture in the late 1940s by 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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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