Albie Hecht is the CEO of Worldwide Biggies

Worldwide Biggies

Worldwide Biggies is a digital entertainment studio that creates original multimedia outlet entertainment products for a diverse age range of consumers, including computer generated features, hi-definition movies and television series, direct to DVD series, and broadband and mobile content aimed...

, founder of Spike TV

Spike TV

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, and a former president of Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

 Entertainment.

Hecht oversaw the development and production of SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of "Bikini Bottom"...

, Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until...

, Blue’s Clues, and the live-action show All That

All That

All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC...

at Nickelodeon. While at Nickelodeon, he built the Nick Digital Studio

Nickelodeon Creative Labs

Nickelodeon Creative Advertising is an American animation studio. The studio, which opened in 1998, created many content for Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network.-History:...

 as well as the first new animation studio in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 35 years. He also co-created Nickelodeon GUTS

Nickelodeon GUTS

Nickelodeon GUTS is an American television reality "action sports" competition series hosted by actor/comedian Mike O'Malley and officiated by British actress Moira "Mo" Quirk. The series was broadcast by the cable television network Nickelodeon from 1992 to 1995...

and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards (with Alan Goodman

Alan Goodman

Alan Goodman has played a key role in creating and launching many media brands since 1981, first in cable television and now for the internet and other platforms....

 and Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert

Frederick "Fred" Seibert is a television and film producer and entertainment entrepreneur who owns Frederator Studios, and who has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks; he owns Frederator Studios...

 as the founding principal and executive producer with Chauncey Street Productions

Frederator Studios

Frederator Studios is an independent American production company founded by Fred Seibert in 1997, with its first series launching in 1998. The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies...

 (originally a division of Goodman's and Seibert's Fred/Alan in New York).

Hecht produced some of Paramount

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

’s biggest films of the last five years, most recently, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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, which received four Academy Award nominations, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated film based on the popular Nickelodeon television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The film stars the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Doug Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Tambor, and...

, and The Rugrats Movie

The Rugrats Movie

The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 American animated film, produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and first released in theaters in the United States on November 20, 1998....

, the first non-Disney animated movie to sell $100,000,000 worth of tickets at the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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

War/Dance

War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht...

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Hecht was the executive producer of The Rugrats Movie, the first non-Disney animated feature to cross the hundred million dollar mark.

At Spike TV, his shows included The Joe Schmo Show, MXC

MXC

MXC was an American comedy television program that aired on Spike TV from 2003 to 2007. It is a re-edit of footage from the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle which originally aired in Japan from 1986 to 1989...

and signing the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

franchise. Hecht is responsible for the development and is the executive producer of Worldwide Biggies’ series on Nickelodeon The Naked Brothers Band

The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)

The Naked Brothers Band is an American television musical comedy created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a faux rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is...

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Hecht began his media career in college radio at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

's WKCR

WKCR

WKCR-FM is a radio station. Licensed to New York, New York, USA, it serves the New York area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Columbia University in New York.-History:...

 in 1970. He was a manager of pop music acts (including Crack the Sky

Crack the Sky

Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone Magazine declared their first album "debut album of the year", and in 1978, Rolling Stone Record Guide compared them to Steely Dan; their first three albums charted on the...

 and Dean Friedman

Dean Friedman

Dean Friedman is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar and other instruments, including the harmonica.-Music:...

), and an executive at Terry Cashman

Terry Cashman

Terry Cashman is a record producer and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1981 hit, "Talkin' Baseball." While the song is well recognized today, it was all but ignored by typical Top 40 radio during its chart life, making only the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.Cashman was the lead singer...

's and Tommy West

Tommy West

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's Lifesong Records in the 1970s. In 1988 he joined Fred/Alan Inc. with Alan Goodman

Alan Goodman

Alan Goodman has played a key role in creating and launching many media brands since 1981, first in cable television and now for the internet and other platforms....

 and Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert

Frederick "Fred" Seibert is a television and film producer and entertainment entrepreneur who owns Frederator Studios, and who has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks; he owns Frederator Studios...

, running production for the advertising agency

Advertising agency

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, and together they established Chauncey Street Productions (named for the Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 street Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, a situation-comedy television series. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The...

's Ralph Kramden lived on in The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners is an American situation comedy television show, based on a recurring 1951–'55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network's Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network's The Jackie Gleason Show hosted by Jackie Gleason, and filmed before a live...

) for their independent television productions. Hecht bought Chauncey Street when Fred/Alan closed in May 1992.

With his wife Susan MacLaury

Susan MacLaury

Dr. Susan MacLaury is a professor in the Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Health at Kean University, a licensed social worker, and an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer....

, a professor at Kean University

Kean University

Kean University is a coeducational, public research university located in Union and Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its...

, Hecht founded the non-profit film production company Shine Global

Shine Global

Shine Global Inc. is a 501 non-profit film production company that was founded in 2005 by Susan MacLaury, a licensed social worker and health professor at Kean University, and her husband, Albie Hecht, an entertainment executive and founder of Worldwide Biggies. Shine Global produced War/Dance, a...

 in 2005. Hecht and MacLaury received a 2010 Emmy Award

31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards

The 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards were held September 27, 2010 at Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Awards were presented in 41 categories, including Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, Outstanding Interview, and Best Documentary...

 and an Oscar nomination for their documentary film War/Dance

War/Dance

War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht...

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