Marc Doyle

In his roles as President of Echo Pictures and Executive Producer of Great Museums, Marc Doyle brings together the skills and experiences he has acquired over a 38-year career as a journalist, a business executive, an author and a respected industry expert. Doyle founded the independent production company Doyle & Associates (now Echo Pictures) in 1988, after a 20-year career as a pioneering television news executive. For Echo Pictures, he is involved in all phases of the production, including financing and distribution. First and foremost, he has the journalist's passion for curiosity and discovery. Doyle's first official television interview was for CBS News in 1969 with the then District Attorney of Philadelphia, Arlen Specter. Today, as the principal on-location interviewer for Great Museums, he sets a professional yet comfortable zone in which museum scholars, curators and other professionals shine. Throughout his career, Doyle has pioneered the potential of electronic technology to improve the quality of the television experience. He is the architect of the Great Museums High Definition strategy and is guiding the extension of the Great Museums brand to multiple media platforms. In February 2005, he presented a High Definition Case Study on Great Museums, identified as a "model success story" by RealScreen magazine, to an audience of international television network executives and producers at the RealScreen Summit in Washington, DC. In recognition of lifetime achievement, Doyle was awarded the 2000 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle Award. Early on, he was twice named television "News Leader" of the year by United Press International and, as executive producer, he shared in the prestigious Peabody Award for the 1982 environmental documentary, Paradise Saved. In 1996, as Manager of Production for the live international coverage of all rowing events for the Summer Olympic Games, Doyle was recognized by the IOB (International Olympic Broadcasting) for having produced the best television rowing coverage in Olympic history. He has earned three Emmy Awards, seven CINE Golden Eagle Awards, 12 Aurora Awards, four Medals of Achievement from the New York Film/Tape Festival and 18 national Telly Awards. Doyle provides specialized consulting services relating to the future of television to network, new media and corporate clients. In 2000, he spearheaded the Interactive Television Project, a global think tank sponsored by Young & Rubicam. He has lectured and written about the new media frontier. The Future of Television, his industry-acclaimed book on the global convergence of communications technologies, has had three printings (1992 NTC Publishing, Chicago). Throughout his career, he has been active in the affairs of the broadcast industry. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) and chaired the Futures Committee with a mandate to chart NATPE¹s course for involvement in emerging world television markets.