Lopez also hosted a 30-minute DuMont series Dinner Date, which aired live from the Grill Room at the Hotel Taft in New York City, Saturdays at 8pm ET from January to July 1950.
According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy, Vincent Lopez Speaking also aired from 3:15 to 3:30pm ET on DuMont.
According to the book, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was: Six years later, Lopez hosted a similar program on CBS Television.
The DuMont version featured notable performers including Ray Barr, Lee Russell, Barry Valentino, and Ann Warren, all series regulars.
Dinner Date also featured guest stars such as Cab Calloway, Arthur Tracy, and Woody Herman.