Bruce DuMont Archives

Bruce DuMont was first heard on the radio in 1961 on WBEZ-FM while a student at Carl Schurz High School in Chicago. During the 1965 football season Bruce was heard on WLS-FM in Chicago as the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Panthers of the Central Football League. In May of 1973 he began a weekly Saturday morning show called "I Am Curious Radio"-- with cohost Kenan Heise-- on WLTD-AM 1590 in Evanston, Illinois, In January 1974 he began a daily program on W LTD-AM 1590 called "Montage with Bruce DuMont" – which was eventually syndicated via tape bicycling to a small number of Chicagoland stations,including WLNR-FM in the Lansing, Illinois, WGBS-AM in Geneva, Illinois and WXFM-FM in Chicago Following Bruce's departure from WLTD, he took the daily show Montage to WEAW-AM in Evanston and eventually to WXFM-FM in Chicago as "The Bruce DuMont Show". In 1976 Bruce hosted "Insight with Bruce DuMont" , a daily 15 minute interview program on WNIS-FM and also presented Drive time political commentary under the title "Roses & Raspberries". Also in 1976 Bruce began a weekly Thursday night program on WBEZ-FM called "The Chicago Show"– which eventually became "The Bruce DuMont Show" In 1978 Bruce began a late Sunday night program called "Straight Talk with Bruce DuMont" for WFYR-FM in Chicago. In June 1980 Bruce switched the title of "The Bruce DuMont Show" to "Inside Politics with Bruce DuMont" on WBEZ-FM, which aired every Thursday night, In 1989 "Inside Politics with Bruce DuMont" was launched as a syndicated public radio program via WBEZ-FM. It gained a small number of stations with a limited marketing budget during its 18 month run in public radio syndication. In 1992 Bruce moved the nationally syndicated "Inside Politics with Bruce DuMont" -- to commercial radio and a new flagship station WLS-AM Chicago. It remained on W LS-AM until March of 2015. In April 2015 the program switched it's Chicago flagship station to WCGO-AM 1590-- the same station – – (with changed call letters) where Bruce began his career in May 1973. That kept in place a 42 year record of consecutive weekly appearances on Chicago radio. In January 1975 the name of " Inside Politics" was changed to " Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont" -- its title today. In 1978 Bruce hosted morning drive time on WAIT-AM--- following the abrupt dismissal of his predecessor. But that was a short-lived stint and ended after two weeks, when the station changed formats with no advance notice. Throughout Bruce's career on occasion he has been a fill host for some national personalities, including Paul Harvey on the ABC radio network, Ollie North and Morton Downey,Jr. for Marathon Media. During the early 90's, Bruce also was a regular substitute host for Dave Baum on WBBM-AM in Chicago. Throughout his career Bruce was an occasional guest on other radio and television talk programs, where he promoted either the MBC or shared his political analysis. In 1975 he appeared on the NBC network "Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder". "Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont" reached icon status when the program was "the answer" to a question on "Jeopardy".

Bruce DuMont Career Audio Collection