Background
Margaret Ann Loesch was born to Margaret M. Loesch.
Businessperson television producer
Margaret Ann Loesch was born to Margaret M. Loesch.
She attended the University of Southern Mississippi, studying political science.
On June 12, 2014, she announced that she would step down from her position sometime at the end of that year. In 1971, Loesch started her entertainment career with television programming and production positions at American Broadcasting Company then in 1979 with National Broadcasting Company. She then moved in 1979 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.
Loesch had also run Fox Kids from 1990 until 1997.
During this time she bought the X-Men television series (which would prove to be wildly popular) for the network. Foreign 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 then 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.
In 2003, Loesch and Bruce Stein formed The Hatchery, a family entertainment and consumer product company.
She was hired for Hub Network Chief Executive Officer position in July 2009 until the end of 2014.