Both Pittman and Knell arrive following a period of turmoil, as new CEOs often do.
Pittman confirmed that the use programmable channels will remain at free through year end.
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Most sales representatives are computer technicians like Walker Pittman, a Fort Worth, Texas, networking expert.
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From its beginning, Pittman positioned MTV to be different from any other traditional network out there.
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Pittman says the company plans to gradually add new functionality to I Heart Radio as the online music sector grows.
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For starters, the sanctions are quite generous to Pittman and hopefully he appreciates that things could have gotten far worse.
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Mr Pittman's television and theme-park triumphs have all had the backing of a media giant: first Warner Communications, then Time Warner.
At Clear Channel, Bob Pittman has been named chief executive, replacing Mark Mays, who stepped down in March and remains chairman.
AOL's Bob Pittman, 46, who once worked at Time Warner, returns as its co-chief operating officer and likely successor to Mr Levin.
"The mission here is the consumer, " says America Online's president, Robert Pittman.
As a boy from Mississippi, that is something Mr Pittman should know.
The single-minded Mr Pittman may be unusually determined to make it work.
Pittman contends radio is dramatically cheaper than television, offering advertisers the chance to reach 4x the number of people for the same money.
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That of course will change with the advent of new technologies such as digital television, and Mr Pittman's mass-media instincts will be useful here.
Pittman is doing something about this flaw in the information flow.
Robert Pittman and Steve Case ultimately followed Levin, and AOL Time Warner is now run by Time Warner executives, just the way Turner wanted it.
Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions.
Mr Miller replaces Bob Pittman, who was ousted from that job, as well as from his post as chief operating officer at the parent media giant, last month.
With his oversight as CEO of Clear Channel, Pittman is once again not just taking on the competition (his own former company included), but reinventing a media brand category altogether.
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No sooner has Mr Pittman enthused about this idea, however, than he insists that the company is not about to hog its content, or its distribution pipes, all to itself.
The brainchild of founders Pittman and the first Maestro Tequilero Bertha Gonzalez Nieves this tequila is prepared with meticulous attention to detail even down to the award winning hand crafted bottles.
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Yet where Mr Pittman was abrasive and relished the limelight, Mr Logan prefers a good book to a Manhattan cocktail party, and fishing for bass over dining at the Four Seasons.
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Bob Pittman has a sixth sense about brand reinvention.
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Pittman, who is perhaps best known for his prominent role in the AOL- Time Warner merger, has been with the radio conglomerate since last November as its chairman of media and entertainment platforms.
But Pittman, chief executive at a software startup called Groxis , has always had a problem with Google and other search engines like it: Your results come back without any meaning or context.
Pittman makes it clear that Clear Channel intends to be a big player in Internet radio, even as he points out that terrestrial radio continues to account for 97% of overall radio listening.
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Pittman is also an investor in CC Media.
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