''I.N.S. Telenews'' was an American news program aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network from 1948 to 1949.
Broadcast history
Each episode was 15 minutes long, made by
International News Service
The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.
, and aired weekly, each Tuesday at 7:45 pm EST, immediately following ''
Camera Headlines
''Camera Headlines'' was an early American television series that aired from January 1948 to 1949 on the DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history
DuMont's previous national news program, '' The Walter Compton News'', had premiered on DuMont st ...
'' which aired Monday through Friday at 7:30pm. As its name indicated, its main source of news information was the
International News Service
The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.
.
DuMont had aired ''
The Walter Compton News
''The Walter Compton News'' is an American television news series that aired from 1947 to 1948 on the DuMont Television Network Monday through Friday from 6:45 pm to 7 pm ET.
Broadcast history
''The Walter Compton News'' premiered on DuMont statio ...
'', first as a local show on
WTTG
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on June 16, 1947, then on the DuMont network from August 25, 1947, until January 1948, at which point DuMont replaced Compton's newscast with ''I.N.S. Telenews'' and ''Camera Headlines''.Dumont history website /ref> After the two shows' cancellation in 1949, DuMont would not return to a network newscast until '' The DuMont Evening News'' was launched in 1954.
Episode status
No recordings of ''I.N.S. Telenews'' are known to survive. The
UCLA Film and Television Archive
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Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the ar ...
has earlier Hearst newsreel series, such as ''Hearst Metrotone News'' and ''News of the Day'', and a later series of Hearst newsreels syndicated to television called ''Telenews'' (1954-1962). Possibly some episodes of ''I.N.S. Telenews'' exist in these other collections. (Note: A Telenews item can be found on YouTube under the title "NHL 52-53 First Beliveau's game for Habs".)
See also
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Camera Headlines
''Camera Headlines'' was an early American television series that aired from January 1948 to 1949 on the DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history
DuMont's previous national news program, '' The Walter Compton News'', had premiered on DuMont st ...
''
*''
The Walter Compton News
''The Walter Compton News'' is an American television news series that aired from 1947 to 1948 on the DuMont Television Network Monday through Friday from 6:45 pm to 7 pm ET.
Broadcast history
''The Walter Compton News'' premiered on DuMont statio ...
''
*''
DuMont Evening News
The ''DuMont Evening News'' was an American news program which aired Monday through Friday at 7:15pm ET on the DuMont Television Network during the 1954–1955 season. Presented by Morgan Beatty, the 15-minute show was the network's third and fin ...
''
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Television news in the United States
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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 orig ...
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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 recove ...
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press
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, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books
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