Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena

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Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena
Format	Sports program
Starring	Chris Schenkel (host)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	1-2 hours
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC (1946-1948) DuMont(1954-1956)
Original run	1946 – August 6, 1956

Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena was an American sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1954 to 1956. The DuMont version was hosted by Chris Schenkel.

This regularly scheduled program, which aired boxing matches on Monday nights, is notable for being the final program to air on DuMont. The last network-aired program was broadcast on August 6, 1956, though a few remaining programs were seen locally on New York's WABD afterward.

With limited finances, DuMont aired many sports programs throughout its history. Boxing, wrestling, basketball, and football were always network mainstays, even during prime time, as they were cheaper than most scripted programs and filled large programming blocks that would otherwise have gone unfilled. Most of DuMont's regular series were cancelled on April 1, 1955, and the last scripted program, What's the Story, left the airwaves in September 1955, leaving only a few cheap sports programs on the schedule.

However, by August 1956, even DuMont's sports programs, including Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, were axed.