Bob Pittman

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Robert W. Pittman was listed in the Spring 1995, Advertising Age special TV 50th Anniversary Issue as one of “50 Who Made a Difference” in the history of television. Known as “the father of MTV,” at 27 he created the programming for MTV - the Music Television cable network - launched in 1981. MTV revitalized the music business and spawned the music video industry, which in turn influenced an entire new generation of television programming, production, and commercials that appealed to “the MTV generation” of young viewers.

Milestones

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  Bob Pittman invested in Next New Networks. (3/12/08)
  Posted 3/12/08 at 8:57am
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  Bob Pittman invested in Zynga. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/18/08 at 12:23am
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  Bob Pittman invested in Huffington Post. (9/1/07)
  Posted 11/15/07 at 12:19pm
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  Bob Pittman invested in TrialPay. (2/20/07)
  Posted 10/26/07 at 4:57am
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  Bob Pittman invested in Huffington Post. (8/1/06)
  Posted 11/15/07 at 12:14pm
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  Bob Pittman invested in iLike. (1/1/06)
  Posted 7/17/07 at 4:15am
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  Bob Pittman added a position as Investor.
  Posted 1/18/08 at 12:26am
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  Bob Pittman added a position as board of directors at Project Playlist.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 8:57pm

Videos

Investments

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1. Next New Networks - $15 million From Velocity Interactive Group And Goldman Sachs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. dmwmedia.com []
3. HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman (paidcontent.org) [edit]
4. TrialPay Backed By Investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai For Payment Platform (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
5. HuffingtonPost, politics blog site, raises $5M more to target elections (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]