Albie Hecht

Albie Hecht
Nationality	American
Occupation	Head of HLN, TV Producer
Spouse(s)	Susan MacLaury

Albie Hecht is a television producer and media executive. He is the CEO of Worldwide Biggies, founder of Spike TV, and a former president of Nickelodeon Entertainment, and former head of HLN, the television channel.

Hecht oversaw the development and production of SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Blue’s Clues, and the live-action show All That at Nickelodeon. While at Nickelodeon, he built the Nick Digital Studio as well as the first new animation studio in Los Angeles in 35 years. He also co-created Nickelodeon GUTS and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards (with Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert as the founding principal and executive producer with Chauncey Street Productions (originally a division of Goodman's and Seibert's Fred/Alan in New York).

Hecht produced some of Paramount’s biggest films of the last five years, most recently, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which received four Academy Award nominations, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and The Rugrats Movie, the first non-Disney animated movie to sell $100,000,000 worth of tickets at the United States box office

Hecht has twice been nominated for an Oscar, the first as the producer of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and the second as the producer of the documentary feature War/Dance.

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