12 Facts About Ted Bergmann

Theodore Gerard Bergmann was an American television and radio producer, screenwriter, announcer, network and advertising executive.

Ted Bergmann worked for the Dumont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s.

Ted Bergmann worked as a writer for the CBS-TV series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour starting in 1967 and worked as producer and production manager for several other TV series from the 1970s through the 1990s.

In early 1947, after responding to an ad in the New York Times, Ted Bergmann landed a job at the Dumont Television Network, where he was hired as a time salesman at WABD Channel 5, the Du Mont station in New York.

Ted Bergmann was responsible for selling commercial advertising time to clients for such early Dumont TV shows such as The Original Amateur Hour, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Cavalcade of Stars, and Life Is Worth Living.

Ted Bergmann often had troubles finding advertisers for the network because the big television stars were being lured away from DuMont to the other networks.

Ted Bergmann worked his way up through the company and finished as the managing director of the broadcast division until the network shut down.

Ted Bergmann was later offered a job to head the ABC network but declined.

Ted Bergmann remained good friends with creator of the DuMont Network, Allen DuMont, until DuMont died in 1965.

Ted Bergmann would serve in the same capacity for its spinoff series The Ropers and Three's A Crowd.

Ted Bergmann retired from television in 1998 and resided in Southern California.

Ted Bergmann died after an unspecified surgery on March 2,2014, aged 93.