Fox is considered by some observers to be a revival of sorts, or a linear descendant, of the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, as DuMont's owned-and-operated stations (including New York City station WABD, now WNYW), which later spun off from parent company DuMont Laboratories to become Metromedia, were purchased by News Corporation (the then-parent company of 20th Century Fox) and went on to form the Fox network in 1986;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101027143941/http://dumonthistory.tv/9.html The DuMont Television Network: Channel Nine]</ref> in addition, the current Fox Television Center in New York City was originally the DuMont Tele-Centre and had been the base of that network's operations prior to the network's closure in 1956, then was known as the Metromedia Telecenter from then until 1986. | Fox is considered by some observers to be a revival of sorts, or a linear descendant, of the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, as DuMont's owned-and-operated stations (including New York City station WABD, now WNYW), which later spun off from parent company DuMont Laboratories to become Metromedia, were purchased by News Corporation (the then-parent company of 20th Century Fox) and went on to form the Fox network in 1986;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101027143941/http://dumonthistory.tv/9.html The DuMont Television Network: Channel Nine]</ref> in addition, the current Fox Television Center in New York City was originally the DuMont Tele-Centre and had been the base of that network's operations prior to the network's closure in 1956, then was known as the Metromedia Telecenter from then until 1986. |