 At its peak in 1954, DuMont was affiliated with around 200 television stations.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.