Austin Hoyt was a Producer and Executive Producer at WGBH Boston from 1965 to 2003, when he founded his own production company, Austin Hoyt Productions, Inc.

“Victory in the Pacific,” his two hour film on the final year of the war in the Pacific, aired on PBS’s American Experience in May 2005. “City of the Century,” three 90-minute episodes on the history of 19th century Chicago, aired on American Experience in January 2003.

American Experience was awarded a Prime Time Emmy in 1999 for Hoyt’s 4-hour biography of Douglas MacArthur.

Hoyt won a Peabody Award in 1998 for his contributions to a series of Presidential portaits – biographies of Ronald Reagan (1998) and Dwight Eisenhower (1993). He also received the Eric Barnouw Award for his two hour special on Andrew Carnegie (1997) entitled “The Richest Man in the World.”

Hoyt wrote and produced two hours of the 13-part series War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: “The Education of Robert McNamara” and “Carter’s New World.” (1989)

Austin Hoyt has many other awards and producing credits to his name.