Beyond the Beltway
Beyond the Beltway, hosted by Bruce DuMont, is a nationally syndicated political talk show based in Chicago. Originally titled Inside Politics, it airs 7-9 PM EST every Sunday on approximately 30 terrestrial radio stations and Sirius XM Satellite Radio as well as online at beyondthebeltway.com and on the show's YouTube channel and Facebook page. In February 2015, Beyond the Beltway was removed from the lineup of Chicago's 50,000-watt WLS 890 AM, the show's flagship station since November 1992, and picked up by WCGO 1590 AM, a 10,000-watt station based out of Evanston, Illinois.
It is videotaped live at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which DuMont founded in 1987, and is shown at various times throughout the week, including Mondays at 11 PM, on CN100 in the Chicago area; the televised version of Beltway was also broadcast on WYCC, Chicago's secondary PBS station, on Sunday nights from 1996 until the station went off the air in 2017. Beyond the Beltway made headlines in March 2012 when DuMont challenged Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum for criticizing President Obama's stance on prosecuting child pornographers.
On November 29, 2018, DuMont launched a GoFundMe campaign "to purchase satellite radio services" for Beyond the Beltway. He set a goal of $8,000 and, eight months later, had raised more than $3,100.
