Bruce DuMont (born June 18, 1944) is an American political analyst and broadcaster based in Chicago, Illinois. He is the host of Beyond the Beltway talk radio, a show that airs on 41 stations around the United States. The program also airs on Chicago's PBS TV station, WYCC. 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 and president of the currently homeless Museum of Broadcast Communications, which he began in 1982.
DuMont is the nephew of Allen B. DuMont, the inventor of the cathode ray tube and founder of the DuMont Television Network.
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