1-Dec-17 – The retirement of the president of River North’s Museum of Broadcast Communications is going as planned. Bruce DuMont says he will retire when his term as president expires at the end of the year.

“Time for the next chapter of my life,” exclaimed the 73-year-old DuMont on Facebook, saying he notified the museum’s board of directors on Tuesday.

DuMont, who has been president of the museum since he founded it in 1983, said last year he would retire as president when his term expired this year, possibly sooner if a successor was found. However, no successor to DuMont has been announced.

As early as 2013, DuMont had said he would start to step away from day-to-day operations of the museum. The next year, he retired after more than 20 years as chairman of the National Radio Hall of Fame.

In October 2016, the museum board elected an interim chairman, Chicago media executive Larry Wert, to help raise money and oversee a reorganization of the museum’s leadership.