What Is My Damn Channel?

My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower artists to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video content. Our artists create programming for the My Damn Channel site and for syndication on today’s most heavily-trafficked online communities and social networks. My Damn Channel gives artists creative control, a complete infrastructure to rule the web, and revenue sharing. We’re ad supported and we share revenues with our syndication partners. We produce a diverse array of programming and....blah, blah, blah. Are you still reading this crap? If you really want to see what we do, then start exploring now. Bye.

Rob Barnett, President and CEO

My Damn Channel is the brainchild of President and CEO Rob Barnett. Barnett has been disrupting media for over three decades creating groundbreaking new programs and productions in entertainment, pop culture, politics, and music. Barnett has produced new and “traditional” media with hundreds of popular personalities, including President Clinton, The Rolling Stones, Oprah Winfrey, Bono, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Rotten and more.

My Damn Channel establishes a new paradigm in the digital entertainment medium. Barnett's experience in production and programming drove him to create a compelling new studio model giving talent unprecedented control over their own content with new media mass distribution.

Barnett managed key divisions in programming and production for over 11 years at MTV and VH1. 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.

Barnett 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.

From 1978 to 1988, 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 returned to radio from 2004-2006. He was President of Programming for CBS, where he oversaw content development for more than 179 stations, and launched new formats in 30 markets.

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.

Paul Gallagher, Vice President of Production

My Damn Channel’s Vice President of Production, Paul Gallagher, is an award-winning producer of some of the most talked-about programs on radio and television.

Gallagher produced more than 125 hours of VH1’s mega-hit series, “Behind the Music.” His storytelling techniques combine solid skills as a writer and lead producer. For six years, “Behind the Music” scored unprecedented ratings helping lift the entire network to record-breaking revenues. The series helped artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Mötley Crüe re-launch their careers, and catapulted rising stars like Shania Twain and The Dixie Chicks to new heights.

Gallagher's VH1 credits include the documentary “Dying in Vein” and series production on “Inside Out” and “Ultimate Albums.” At VH1, he earned a wide range of awards including four consecutive Emmy nominations for best Non-Fiction Program, a NIDA Prism Commendation, and the top award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

In 2003, Gallagher produced an independent feature documentary with Nelly during the making of his multi-platinum album, “Sweat Suit.” Gallagher was a Consulting Producer for Fox on the reality series “The Swan” in 2003. In 2004, he was Senior Producer for Sony Pictures Television’s daytime strip, “Pat Croce: Moving In.”

Gallagher's credits include reality, music, documentaries, and news. In 1993, he was an Associate Producer for Fox News on the primetime newsmagazine series, “Front Page.” He was a producer in 1994 for “Inside Edition” and in 1995, he produced for “America's Most Wanted.”

Gallagher’s television career began at BNN, an ambitious regional producer and programming syndicator in upstate New York, where his storytelling skills earned him two Emmy nominations for Best Program, one Emmy for Outstanding Issues Programming – Segments and a CINE Golden Eagle for Outstanding Program.