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.
Coverage of Canadian football's "Big Four" was more readily available on NBC than NFL games were in most markets on DuMont.
[8] In January 1955, DuMont obtained rights from the Los Angeles Newspaper Charities to cover the Pro Bowl only one week before the game date.
For instance, in 1955, NBC replaced DuMont as the network for the NFL Championship Game, paying a rights fee of $100,000.
Consequently, this is roughly how coverage went for each team in 1955: The October 17, 1955 issue of Sports Illustrated lists Chicago Cardinals-New York game as not televised.
Bob Wolff is listed as doing play-by-play for the Giants game for DuMont, so Chris Schenkel could have made the call here.
DuMont still broadcast some sports events (a Monday-night boxing show and the 1955 NFL season) until either August 1956,[10] or Thanksgiving 1957.
[12][13] It is also possible that this video footage is DuMont coverage of the 1953 NFL Championship Game, though it is not confirmed and the tape contains no audio.