thumb|250px|right|A DuMont Telecruiser, circa 1953. This mobile TV unit, Model B, Serial Number 101, was built by DuMont Labs for KBTV in Dallas. It was in use until the early 1970s. At its peak in 1954, DuMont was affiliated with around 200 television stations.Corarito, Gregory (1967). Tulsa TV History Thesis — KCEB . Retrieved on December 28, 2006. 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.
thumb|250px|right|A DuMont Telecruiser, circa 1953 This mobile TV unit, Model B, Serial Number 101, was built by DuMont Labs for KBTV in Dallas. It was in use until the early 1970s. At its peak in 1954, DuMont was affiliated with around 200 television stations.Corarito, Gregory (1967). Tulsa TV History Thesis — KCEB . Retrieved on December 28, 2006. 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.