Bob Pittman is back in radio. Most known in recent years for his role as an investor following stints as the head of MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) and COO of AOL (NYSE: AOL) Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Pittman got his start programming radio stations. Now he’s meshing all of that…

Social shopping site ThisNext has raised some additional funding to the $1.2 million round from February, and says it will begin working with blog and ad network Federated Media. The Los Angeles company has also made some additions to its board, as CEO Matt Edelman, who was named to the…

Robert Pittman is investing an undisclosed amount in pop culture e-mail newsletter and blog GeekChicDaily, Pittman already has a track record with newsletter investments, scoring when DailyCandy sold to Comast last year for a $120 million. He’s also invested in Thrillist and Tasting Table. Andy Russell, a partner in Pittman’s…

Music social net Project Playlist is still barred by Facebook and MySpace but a deal with EMI Music adds considerably to the startup’s legit music firepower—and drops the number of majors still suing the startup to two. EMI Music is the second major to sign on, following a December deal…

Adroll, a startup that offers ad net services, has raised a first round funding, Venturebeat reported. I spoke to Jared Kopf, the San Francisco company’s founder and CEO, who declined to specify the amount, but said it was around $4 million. Participants in the round included Merus Capital, Thiel, Accel…

Online video production and distribution service NextNew Networks has received $15 million in a new second round of funding…the round was co-led by Goldman Sachs and Velocity Interactive Group (Jon Miller is already on the board from before). Previous investors Spark Capital has invested again as has Saban Media Group…

Bob Pittman is striking the contrarian note at NATPE, something he mentioned in a pre-NATPE interview last week. Internet is replacing print, not TV, in terms of ad dollars, he said. Also, he consider the proliferation of channels online is nothing new, only accelerated. TV delivers different value than Internet…

Bob Pittman gives a rare interview to our friend Will Richmond here, and some good insights into his thinking, on the investing side, as well as his view on video/TV/broadband. His investment firm Pilot Group has bought some stakes in local TV station groups, and his interview and his upcoming…

Stereogum founder Scott Lapatine and investors Bob Pittman, of the Pilot Group, Sling Media’s Jason Hirschhorn, have traded their equity stakes in the indie music blog for an ownership percentage of pop culture community site BuzzNet, NY Post reports. Citing an unidentified source, the deal estimated Stereogum’s value at $5…

Two previously mobile content execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman (both ex-HandsOn, then called Mforma) are launching PeopleJam, a website set on helping people improve their lives. The company, based in LA, has received funding from Bob Pittman’s fund and TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) CEO Tom Rogers. The idea of the…