Bruce DuMont

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Bruce DuMont is a political analyst and broadcaster based in Chicago, Illinois. He is the host of the nationally-syndicated Beyond the Beltway talk show originating from the Museum of Broadcast Communications ([1]) in Chicago. The program is also a local Chicago television show. From 1987 to 2006 he was the host of Illinois Lawmakers, a television show covering legislative news that originated from the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois when the Illinois General Assembly is in session.

DuMont is the Founder & President of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which he began in 1982. DuMont is the former Chairman of the George Foster Peabody Awards board and is the nephew of Allen B. DuMont, the inventor of the cathode ray tube and founder of the DuMont Television Network.