 Despite its severe financial straits, by 1953, DuMont appeared to be on its way to establishing itself as the third national network.DuMont programs aired live on 16 stations, but it could count on only seven primary stations – its three owned-and-operated stations ("O&Os"), plus WGN-TV in Chicago, KTTV (channel 11) in Los Angeles, KFEL-TV (channel 2, now KWGN-TV) in Denver, and WTVN-TV (channel 6, now WSYX) in Columbus, Ohio.In contrast, by 1953 ABC had a full complement of five O&Os, augmented by nine primary affiliates.