On July 30, 2012, the Institute announced that Robert Pittman, CEO of Clear Channel Communications Inc., agreed to serve as chairman of the advisory council.
In August 2008 DailyCandy.com was sold to Comcast for a reported US$125 million by its then owner media-mogul Robert Pittman an American entrepreneur and the founder of MTV and ex-COO of America Online, Inc and AOL Time Warner.
Bob Pittman, sailor narrator of popular Newfoundland folk song "The Ryans and the Pittmans", which was partially composed around 1875 by W. H. LeMessurier and printed in Old Songs of Newfoundland (1912)
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Robert C. Pittman (1922–1999), American pilot and entrepreneur who, in midst of World War II Army service, flew over 250 Pacific combat missions; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross; communications executive from 1950s to 1980s
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