 He 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.DuMont also 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.DuMont is the founder and former president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which began development in 1982.