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730:, when ABC, now with a renewed interest in sports, broadcast an edited replay on Sunday nights of the previous day's Notre Dame games, which were cut down to 75 minutes in length by removing the time between plays, halftime, and even some of the more uneventful plays. (While this format was not successful in prime time, a similar presentation of Notre Dame football later became a staple of Sunday mornings for many years on 742:. Unlike ABC's Notre Dame coverage, DuMont's NFL game was presented live on Saturday nights, but interest was not adequate to save the DuMont Network, which had by this point already entered what would be a terminal decline (although it did mount a subsequent 1954 season of NFL telecasts, minus Wismer, which proved to be one of its last regular programs). 1120:. Retrieved November 21, 2017. "The ’57 Thanksgiving game at Foley Field was televised live and in color (both rarities in those early TV days) on Channel 5 via the old Dumont Television Network, which was under the leadership of Dr. Dumont, who - by the way - was a Montclair resident. Also, the late, great Chris Schenkel did the play by play." 309:
DuMont proved to be a less than ideal choice for a national broadcaster. The network had only eighteen primary affiliates in 1954, dwarfed by the 120 available to NBC (although a number of ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates that had DuMont "secondary" affiliations did carry some NFL games, mainly on Sunday
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Telecasts of complete professional games would not appear until 1953 on DuMont. NFL football on television, as we know it today, would have to wait for a decade, and the arrival of television-minded NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, before it made an impact on network
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did the network actually sign a contract with the league. Some teams did not have deals with DuMont; instead selling television rights to local stations, independent producers, or breweries who were major sponsors and who also packaged the telecasts.
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was a co-production of DuMont and Tel Ra. The Week 6 episode presumably includes DuMont's own game footage from the Saturday night game between Philadelphia and Green Bay. No audio play-by-play or commentary survives from any DuMont telecast.
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ABC wasn't the first network to try football in prime time. In the early 1950s, the now-defunct DuMont network broadcast pro football on Saturday nights, but a lack of affiliates and interest killed the concept (not to mention
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Aug 8, 1956 - On August 8, 1956, The DuMont network offered its final telecast: a boxing card. CBS inherits the rest of the Dumont/NFL football deal.
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as the announcer.) Also that season was the first attempt at prime time coverage of pro football, with Wismer at the microphone on the old
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Locally and regionally televised games were broadcast as early as 1939, but on December 23, 1951, DuMont televised the first ever live,
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DuMont normally used a single announcer for its telecasts, a common practice then but a departure from modern practice where a
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lists the Chicago Bears-Los Angeles game as being televised. If so, it could have been televised as a syndicated pick up.
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lists Chicago Cardinals-New York game as not televised. However, an article on this game in October 16, 1955 issue of the
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is listed as doing play-by-play for the Giants game for DuMont, so Chris Schenkel could have made the call here.
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for later viewing by the few DuMont affiliates and stations in the west or for highlight reels and game film.
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DuMont's NFL coverage consisted of contracts the network signed with individual NFL teams. Only for the
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In January 1955, DuMont obtained rights from the Los Angeles Newspaper Charities to cover the
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100,000. ABC acquired the rights to the Thanksgiving game. Meanwhile, most teams (sans the
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replaced DuMont as the network for the NFL Championship Game, paying a rights fee of
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Two five-second plugs from October 1954 promoting DuMont's NFL programming survive.
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Consequently, this is roughly how coverage went for each team in 1955:
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and it was in Green Bay that his terse, minimalist style (e.g. : "
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to cover the game on such short notice, the telecast was cancelled.
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games before moving to a more national scope the following season.
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only one week before the game date. As they had trouble lining up
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by 17 years. Several of the games in 1953 and 1954 originated in
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for its coverage of the 1953 and 1954 seasons but did not win.
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over the DuMont network; three years later he began doing
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on the DuMont Television Network, as well as that year's
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