Editing DuMont Television Network (section)

==Affiliates==
{{main|List of former DuMont Television Network affiliates}}
[[File:DuMont Telecruiser B-101.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A DuMont Telecruiser, circa 1953. This mobile TV unit, Model B, Serial Number 101, was built by DuMont Labs for [[WFAA|KBTV]] in [[Dallas]]. It was in use until the early 1970s.]]
At its peak in 1954, DuMont was affiliated with around 200 television stations.<ref>Corarito, Gregory (1967). [http://tulsatvmemories.com/tvthesi3.html Tulsa TV History Thesis — KCEB] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914050317/http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/tvthesi3.html |date=September 14, 2006 }}. Retrieved on December 28, 2006.</ref> In those days, television stations were free to "cherry-pick" which programs they would air, and many stations affiliated with multiple networks, depending mainly on the number of commercial television stations available in a market at a given time (markets where only one commercial station was available carried programming from all four major networks). Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as ''Life Is Worth Living'') and/or sports programming on the weekends. Few stations carried the full DuMont program lineup. For example, the promising [[WKLO-TV]] (UHF Ch. 21) in the growing Louisville, Kentucky/Indiana market had to split its time between DuMont and ABC-TV. The station lasted only seven months (September 1953 – April 1954) on the air.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

In its later years, DuMont was carried mostly on poorly watched UHF channels or had only secondary affiliations on VHF stations. DuMont ended most operations on April 1, 1955, but honored network commitments until August 1956.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}

===Kinescopes===
* Kinescopes of DuMont Network programs, from the [[Internet Archive]]: [https://archive.org/details/Ellery_Queen_DuMont ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen''], [https://archive.org/details/captainvideo ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers''], [https://archive.org/details/Cavalcade ''Cavalcade of Stars''], [https://archive.org/details/Life_Is_Worth_Living-Classic_TV ''Life Is Worth Living''], [https://archive.org/details/MissTelevision1950Contest ''Miss U.S. Television 1950 Contest''], [https://archive.org/details/moreyamsterdamshow ''The Morey Amsterdam Show''], [https://archive.org/details/The_Old_American_Barndance_Show ''The Old American Barn Dance''], [https://archive.org/details/Okay_Mother ''Okay Mother''], [https://archive.org/details/onYourWay1954  ''On Your Way''], [https://archive.org/details/PublicProsecutor-CaseOfTheManWhoWasntThere ''Public Prosecutor''], [https://archive.org/details/Rocky_King_Detective ''Rocky King — Detective''], [https://archive.org/details/schoolHouse1949 ''School House''], [https://archive.org/details/TheyStandAccused ''They Stand Accused''] and [https://archive.org/details/DuMont_Network A DuMont Network identification]