| Summary: | Television producer Charles Hobson was born on June 23, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights neighborhoods in Brooklyn. In 1960, he graduated from Brooklyn College. In 1963, Hobson was hired to host a radio show at WBAI where he was later promoted to production director. Hobson was then hired to produce for ABC-TV, WABC-TV in New York, and WETA-TV in Washington DC. From 1968 to 1986, he produced Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant, Like It Is, From Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music, and The Africans. In the 1980s, Hobson launched his own production company, Vanguard Documentaries, which produced a number of documentaries and shows, including Porgy and Bess: An American Voice, Negroes with Guns, and Harlem in Montmartre: Paris Jazz. Hobson was awarded an Emmy, the Japan Prize 'Special Citation,' and the Golden Eagle Award from the Council on International Nontheatrical Events.
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