 The 1953–54 season would be the last year DuMont was able to schedule nearly 20 hours of programming in prime time.By the 1954–55 season, DuMont would be forced to cut back its schedule, while the other three networks continued to expand.During the 1953 season, both DuMont and ABC "made sporadic efforts to compete for the daytime audience, but faced so many problems just filling prime time that they found it much more efficient to focus primarily on weekend sports".