 WTTG and New York 's WABD ( later WNEW @-@ TV , and now WNYW ) survived as Metromedia @-@ owned independents until 1986 , when Metromedia was purchased by the News Corporation to form the nucleus of the new Fox Broadcasting Company . Clarke Ingram , who maintained a DuMont memorial site , has suggested that Fox can be considered a revival , or at least a linear descendant , of DuMont . 
 WTTG and New York <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>WABD ( later WNEW @-@ TV , and now WNYW ) survived as Metromedia @-@ owned independents until 1986 , when Metromedia was purchased by the News Corporation to form the nucleus of the new Fox Broadcasting Company . Clarke Ingram , <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>maintained a DuMont memorial site , <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>has</mark></a> suggested that Fox can be considered a revival , or at least a linear descendant , of DuMont . 
WTTG and New York  WABD ( later WNEW @-@ t.v , and now WNYW ) survived as Metromedia @-@ owned independents untill 1986 , when Metromedia was purchased by the News Corporation to form the nucleus of the new Fox Broadcasting Company . Clarke Ingram , maintained a DuMont memorial site , done suggested that Fox can b considered a revival , or at least a linear descendant , of DuMont .