15-Mar-03 4:00 PM CST

Golden Age of Radio Classics Archived at Museum of Broadcast Communications

Co-host Brad Forsythe interviews Bruce DuMont, president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications. DuMont is Founder and President of The Museum of Broadcast Communications, one of only two broadcast museums in the United States. The Museum includes America's only Radio Hall of Fame, which DuMont brought to Chicago in 1991. DuMont began his talk radio career as the original producer of WGN/Chicago's Extension 720 in 1968. After an unsuccessful run for the state legislature, he returned to WGN in 1970 as producer of The Howard Miller Show only to leave in 1973 to begin his own on-air radio career at WLTD/Evanston. Through most of 1982, DuMont produced Channel 2: The People for WBBM and in December 1982, DuMont joined WTTW Television. DuMont was the original producer of Chicago Tonight with John Callaway, which premiered in April of 1984. In July of that year, DuMont began his on-camera career, when he anchored the national Democratic and Republican Conventions. From 1984 through 1991, DuMont was the Senior Political Analyst for WTTW/Channel 11. While at WTTW, DuMont produced Campaigning on Cue, the critically acclaimed 1985 PBS series examining the relationship between politics and television. When DuMont left WTTW in 1991 to become President and CEO of The Museum of Broadcast Communications. As host of Beyond the Beltway, Bruce DuMont is heard from coast to coast every Sunday night on more than 60 of America's major radio stations

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