Bruce DuMont was born on June 18,1944 and is a former syndicated radio political analyst and TV broadcaster based in Chicago, Illinois.
11 Facts About Bruce DuMont
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Bruce DuMont 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.
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Bruce DuMont 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.
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Bruce DuMont gained his first on-air radio experience at WLTD, now WCGO, in Evanston, Illinois, a 1,000-watt AM station at the time.
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Bruce DuMont then began to focus on producing news and documentaries for local television.
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Bruce DuMont then worked as a producer for Chicago's primary PBS station, WTTW, heading up its broadcasts of the 1983 mayoral debates between Mayor Jane Byrne and her challengers, Richard M Daley and Harold Washington.
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Bruce DuMont produced WTTW's Chicago Tonight, and his on-camera work began in 1984 as the program's anchor for both the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention.
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Bruce DuMont is the founder and former president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which began development in 1982.
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Bruce DuMont officially retired from the MBC on December 31,2017.
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Bruce DuMont has one child, a daughter, from his first marriage, and was married to Kathy Osterman from May 1,1992, until her death from cancer on December 8,1992.
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Bruce DuMont has been partners with Kevin Fuller since 1997; they were married on September 20,2023.