Margaret Loesch

Margaret Ann Loesch (/lɛʃ/ LESH^[1]) is an American television executive and producer. She is the former President and CEO of Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc's joint venture television network Hub Network.^[2] She stepped down from her position in 2014.^[3]

Margaret Loesch
Born	Margaret Ann Loesch
Alma mater	University of Southern Mississippi Louisiana State University in New Orleans
Occupation	Entertainment executive

Early life

Margaret Ann Loesch was born to Margaret M. Loesch and Brig. Gen. L. Fred Loesch (USAF). She attended undergraduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi, studying political science, and graduate school at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.^[4]

Career

In 1971, Loesch started her entertainment career with television programming and production positions at ABC, then in 1979 with NBC. In 1979 she moved to Hanna-Barbera Productions as vice president for children's programming, moving up to executive vice president. In 1984, she joined Marvel Productions as president and chief executive officer.^[5] Loesch then ran Fox Kids from 1990^[4][2] until 1997.^[5] During this time she bought X-Men: The Animated Series^[6] and the Power Rangers franchise^[7] (both would prove to be wildly popular) for the network.^[6] For most of 1998, Loesch was President of the Jim Henson Television Group, where she was involved in the Odyssey Channel agreement with Hallmark Entertainment and National Interfaith Cable Coalition. She moved to Odyssey in November 1998 as president and chief executive officer. With Hallmark taking over a majority ownership in Odyssey, Loesch led a re-branding of Odyssey to the Hallmark Channel in 1999.^[5] In 2003, Loesch and Bruce Stein formed The Hatchery, a family entertainment and consumer product company.^[8] She was hired as Hub Network chief executive officer position in July 2009 until the end of 2014.^[2] In March 2015, Loesch was named to Genius Brands' international board of directors to replace Jeff Weiss, the president and chief operations officer of American Greetings.^[9]

Filmography

Years	Title	Notes
1981	Superfriends	Executive In Charge of Production
	Trollkins	Executive In Charge of Production
1981–1983	The Smurfs	Executive In Charge of Production/Supervising Executive
1982–1983	Pac-Man	Executive In Charge of Production
1983–1984	Pac-Man	Supervising Executive
	The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show	Supervising Executive
	The Biskitts	Supervising Executive
	Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show	Supervising Executive Producer
1984–1985	Challenge of the GoBots	Executive In Charge of Production
1985–1986	Paw Paws	Executive In Charge of Production
	The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians	Executive In Charge of Production
1985	The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo	Executive In Charge of Production
1990–1995	Tiny Toon Adventures	Executive In Charge of Production
1991–1995	Taz-Mania	Executive Producer
1992–1995	Batman: The Animated Series	Executive Producer
1992	The Plucky Duck Show	Executive In Charge of Production
1993–1998	Animaniacs	Executive In Charge of Production
1995–1999	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries	Executive Producer
1995–1997	Freakazoid!	Executive In Charge of Production
1995–1998	Pinky and the Brain	Executive In Charge of Production
1996–2000	Superman: The Animated Series	Executive Producer
1996–1997	Road Rovers	Executive In Charge of Production
	Waynehead	Executive In Charge of Production
1997–1999	The New Batman Adventures	Executive Producer
1998–2000	Histeria!	Executive In Charge of Production
1998–1999	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Executive In Charge of Production
1999–2001	Batman Beyond	Executive Producer
1999–2000	Detention	Executive Producer
2000–2002	Static Shock	Executive Producer
2001–2002	The Zeta Project	Executive Producer
	Justice League	Executive Producer