Bill Barnett
926 Ventures
Bill Barnett has been involved in the Entertainment Industry his entire professional career. His background includes Advertising, Radio, Television, Film, Internet and Mobile. After working at Foote Cone and Belding he created BARNETT/ROBBINS Enterprises a radio production and syndication company, which he sold to MCA Records, working with recording artists such as Kenny Loggins, Billy Joel, Elton John and Bob Dylan.
Barnett became the first President of Radio Aahs the first and only Children’s Radio Network in existence. After building the company from one station to 26 stations, he took the company public. Today Radio Aahs is known as Radio Disney.
Barnett then co-founded Goldbar Entertainment a Film and Television production company that produced and distributed over 20 films. Columbia Tri-Star, Disney, HBO Productions, Hallmark Entertainment and Live Entertainment distributed films.
In 2000 Barnett became Executive Vice President of Melanie Griffith’s media and marketing company OneWorldLive where he was responsible for establishing alliances with networks and major sponsors as well as producing content for the web. This was the beginning of a new industry called “Branded Entertainment” Barnett ran “Branded Integration” for Telepictures-Warner Bros. working on shows as “The Bachelor” and “Bachelorette” the “Caroline Rhea Show” “Extra ”and “ElimiDATE”, before forming 926 Ventures. Established in 2003, 926 Ventures is a financing and production partner for original and existing programming for both television and the web. Barnett is also currently a Director of Entertainment Media Works an entertainment Internet company linking consumers, fashion and media properties through a website called StarStyle.com. Barnett produces weekly webisodes such as “The Fashi5n” and “T-Talk” as well as the aggregation of content for multi media, cross platform channels including mobile distribution. 926 Ventures also produces branded vignettes to enhance corporate identity and sales for internet and mobile distribution. In addition Barnett oversees all original programming for a new Hispanic Media company called HombreTV.com.
