Editing DuMont Television Network (section)

====Awards====
DuMont programs were by necessity low-budget affairs, and the network received relatively few awards from the TV industry. Most awards during the 1950s went to NBC and CBS, who were able to out-spend other companies and draw on their extensive history of radio broadcasting in the relatively new television medium.

During the 1952–53 TV season, the aforementioned Bishop Sheen won an [[Emmy Award]] for ''Most Outstanding Personality''. Sheen beat out three CBS nominees -- [[Arthur Godfrey]], [[Edward R. Murrow]], and [[Lucille Ball]] -- for the honors. Sheen also was nominated for Public Service Emmys in 1952, 1953, and 1954.<ref name="Weinstein2">Weinstein, D. (2004). ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'', p. 156-157. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. {{ISBN|1-59213-499-8}}</ref>

DuMont received an Emmy nomination for ''[[Down You Go]]'', a popular game show during the 1952–53 television season (in the category ''Best Audience Participation, Quiz, or Panel Program''). The network was nominated twice for [[NFL on DuMont|its coverage of professional football]] during the 1953–54 and 1954–55 television seasons.<ref name="ATAS">{{cite web|title=Advanced Primetime Awards Search |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |year=2005 |url=http://www.emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php |access-date=September 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403022947/http://www.emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php |archive-date=April 3, 2009 }}</ref>

''[[The Johns Hopkins Science Review]]'', a DuMont [[public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] program, was awarded a [[Peabody Award]] in 1952 in the Education category. Sheen's Emmy and the ''Science Review'' Peabody were the only national awards the DuMont Network received.<ref name="McNeil3">McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television'' (4th ed.), 1121. New York: Penguin Books. {{ISBN|0-14-024916-8}}</ref> Though DuMont series and performers continued to win local TV awards, by the mid-1950s the DuMont network no longer had a national presence.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}