Bruce dumont biography

Video Interview with veteran journalist Bruce DuMont


By Aaron Hanania

Bruce DuMont was hooked by broadcast journalism when he was just 10 years old. His uncle Allen B. DuMont founded the DuMont Television Network and in 1968 became a producer for WGN 720 AM Radio.

DuMont quickly rose to become a well known TV and radio commentator and talkshow host focused on American politics, based out of studios in Illinois.

In 1980 he launched his own radio show and today hosts the nationally syndicated live radio program “Beyond the Beltway” which is broadcast every Sunday from studios in the Museum of Broadcast Communications which he founded in 1982 and heads as President.

I spoke with Mr. DuMont about his career and interests in this one-on-one interview following the close of his syndicated radio show Beyond the Beltway on Sunday Dec. 10, 2017. I also toured the Museum of Broadcast Communications which offers one of the most fascinating looks at the history of American Television in the country.

 

Bruce Dumont (center) with recent guests Michael Bauer, Khal

Beyond the Beltway

American radio syndicated political talk show from 1980 to 2025

Radio show

Genrepolitical talk
Running time2 hours
Country of originUnited States
Language(s)English
Home stationWIND
TV adaptationsBeyond the Beltway (Total Living Network)
Created byBruce DuMont
Directed byFritz Golman
Original releaseJune 26, 1980 (1980-06-26) –
January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Websitewww.beyondthebeltway.com

Beyond the Beltway was a nationally syndicated radio political talk show based in Chicago that debuted on WBEZ 91.5 FM on June 26, 1980, as Inside Politics.[1] It was airing on Sundays on 14 terrestrial radio stations[2] as well as online at beyondthebeltway.com and on the show's YouTube channel[3] and Facebook page[4] when it ended production in January 2025. In February 2015, Beyond the Beltway was removed from the lineup of Chicago's 50,000-watt WLS 890 AM, the show's flagship station since November 1992, and picked up by WCGO 1590 AM, a 10,000-watt sta

Bruce DuMont

American TV broadcaster and syndicated radio political analyst (b. 1944)

Bruce DuMont (born June 18, 1944) is a former syndicated radiopolitical analyst and TV broadcaster based in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He was the host of Beyond the Beltway, a syndicated talk radio show that was airing on 14 stations around the United States when it ended production on January 19, 2025.[2][3] The program, which began in 1980 as Inside Politics, also aired a televised version on Chicago's secondary PBS station, WYCC, from 1996[4] to 2017,[5] when WYCC went off the air.

DuMont got his start in broadcasting as a producer for WGN 720 AM in 1968. He interrupted his radio career to make an unsuccessful run for a seat in the Illinois Senate in 1970, then returned to WGN, this time as a producer for Howard Miller, a controversial radio personality.[6][7] DuMont gained his first on-air radio experience at WLTD, now WCGO, in Evanston, Illinois, a 1,000-watt AM station at the time. It was at WLTD that he became nat

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