What Is My Damn Channel?

My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower comedians, musicians and filmmakers to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video. Artists create content for the My Damn Channel website and for syndication on the most heavily-trafficked online communities and social networks. The network has aired some of the most successful professionally-produced comedy series on the web, including You Suck at Photoshop, Wainy Days, Horrible People, and videos by Harry Shearer. My Damn Channel has won 12 accolades from the Webby Awards including Best Comedy Series, and two 2009 Streamy Awards, garnered worldwide media coverage, secured major national advertisers, earned over 50,000 subscribers on You Tube, racked up a bazillion views on My Damn Channel and in syndication and blah, blah, blah…Are you still reading this crap? Stop now. Start exploring: www.MyDamnChannel.com.

ROB BARNETT, FOUNDER & CEO

My Damn Channel (www.MyDamnChannel.com) is the brainchild of Founder and CEO, Rob Barnett. My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower comedians, musicians and filmmakers to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video

My Damn Channel establishes a new paradigm in the digital entertainment medium by giving professional talent unprecedented control over their content with new media mass distribution. Talent get their own channel and share in the ad revenue.

My Damn Channel launched in July 2007, has offices in New York and Los Angeles and has grown into a multi-faceted and successful business with more than 500 original videos, over 20 channels and over 40 series. In addition to being its own destination, My Damn Channel has racked up more than 50,000 You Tube subscribers and also syndicates content through numerous deals. This has proved to be a valuable and effectivecombination for advertisers such as Southern Comfort, Puma, Lincoln, HBO and film and DVD studios. Advertisers are guaranteed quality content and sizable and engaged audiences to help promote their brands.

My Damn Channel produces a steady-stream of curated, original comedy and music programming. You Suck at Photoshop, a ‘mockutorial,’is My Damn Channel’s most viewed original series, seen more than 20 million times. Harry Shearer’s channel features original music videos, political satire, and "Found Objects," which catches news anchors acting out between live shots. Wainy Days, follows the romantic misadventures of comedian David Wain with guest stars including Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and Jonah Hill. Don Was produces the site’s music channel featuring original music and videos in every genre.

Barnett has produced radio, television, film, and new media with hundreds of diverse communicators including President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, The Rolling Stones, Bono, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, Johnny Rotten and more. Barnett was the President of Programming for CBS Radio from 2004-2006, where he oversaw content development for more than 179 stations, and launched new formats in 30 markets. Prior to that he was a production and a programming exec at MTV and VH1 for more than 11 years where he produced news, specials, and series for both outlets and oversaw all network programming. At VH1, he was VP of Program Planning for the launch of iconic hit shows including "Behind the Music," the program that fueled VH1’s ratings turnaround. In the earlier part of his career, Barnett worked at rock radio stations in Boston, Dallas, and Los Angeles. He was on-air talent in all three markets, and the Program Director in Boston and Dallas.

Barnett also worked as an independent producer for projects including "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues," a multi-part, PBS film series; "Staffers," a reality TV series on politics; and "Inside the Bubble," a documentary feature film on the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign.

Warren Chao, Chief Operating Officer

As My Damn Channel’s chief operating officer, Warren Chao brings an ideal blend of management experience and a background in digital entertainment. In addition to overseeing My Damn Channel’s operations, Chao is responsible for managing the Company’s strategic alliances and partnerships, including syndication relationships with major portals to distribute My Damn Channel’s professionally-produced original entertainment content.

Chao most recently served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Planning for Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASDAQ: GMST), where he launched and managed new initiatives across the company’s various business units as part of a cross-platform strategy that combined the audience reach of TV Guide Magazine, the TV Guide Channel and www.tvguide.com. Chao was also part of Gemstar-TV Guide’s corporate mergers and acquisitions team responsible for acquiring new companies and technologies.

Among the projects Chao developed for TV Guide was a collaboration with entrepreneur/NBA owner Mark Cuban to use Cuban’s Landmark Theatre chain to screen popular television shows in a community theater setting before they air on the network. TV Guide and Landmark’s screenings of the Sci-Fi Channel’s midseason finale of Battlestar Galactica in December 2006 played to packed audiences in six cities across the United States and proved to be a positive branding event for TV Guide, NBC/Sci-Fi, and Landmark.

Previously, Chao worked as a venture capitalist at DynaFund Ventures, in Los Angeles, and as an attorney at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley. He began his career as a corporate and licensing attorney at the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. Chao has a JD/MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard University.