Challenger Amplifier Company
633 Broadway, New York 12, NY (1948/1949)
29 Ninth Ave., New York, NY (1953)
Box 500, Paramus, NJ (1956)

Challenger Amplifier Co. was a manufacturer of intercoms, amplifiers, record players, and stereo AM/FM radios.

Challenger Amplifier Company  (1948/1949 to 1963) was very closely associated with the David Bogen Co., and most likely was a subsidiary since they were located at the same addresses and many Challenger Amplifier Co. products were stamped “Manufactured by David Bogen”. In any case, the “Bogen Challenger Line” was advertised as early as 1951 and starting in 1958, Bogen began an advertising program introducing the “new line of Challenger budget-priced high-fidelity components.”  SAMS Photofact lists the first Challenger Amplifier Co. model in 1949 and the last in 1963.

Note that all Bogen “Challenger” models should be listed under Challenger Amplifier Co. to place all Challenger models in one place.  Although some Challenger models were marked as manufactured by Challenger Amplifier Co., some models were stamped “Manufactured by David Bogen”.

The brand name “Challenger” was used for many different manufacturers, including Montgomery Ward & Co. before WW2.