I can't believe these people continue to fool everyone. This guy and his partner are involved in multiple counts of fraud from the SEC, the other founder was 'fired' for sexually harassing a female employee and a bad 'meth' habit. ZillionTV has concealed millions of dollars in investment money, they don't pay there bills and are for all intensive purposes - broke! I believe there are 2-3 people working out of their executive suite and they lied to everyone in Hollywood. Mitch Berman still sounds like a fool to me. ZillionTV is a joke and the biggest scam in the industry!

http://www.xyhd.tv/2009/11/industry-news/drugs-sex-and-politics-just-a-day-in-the-life-of-zilliontvs-mitch-berman/

http://tvninja2010.blogspot.com/

Hmmm...If what "M Daniels" says is true (I haven't Googled yet), then either Will Richmond hasn't done his homework on Mr. Berman, or Will is knowingly (or not) complicit.

Either way, I fail to see how Mr. Berman's comments would have any credibility or why they would benefit Will's column.

With move network up for a firesale, zillion tv struggle to stay relevent as a content aggregator.

In a world dominated by Apple and Netflix, zillion tv future is bleak. The VC should just fire the whole team and recover as much money as possible like move networks.

For the record, Disney has entirely dropped the idea of pursuing Keychest. It got no traction with any other company and just let it fade away - hoping no one would notice to avoid embarassment.

WOW! A little Google-ing and you'll find all the dirt on Zillion. I guess Ben Silva and Mitch Berman are the founders who worked together at Tvia before starting ZillionTV. This is hilarious stuff! ZillionTV is the laughing stock of Hollywood, I guess the producers of these industry events ought to do more background. If Mitch Berman is referring to 'ex-HBO' as being an 'affiliate marketing manager' that hands out promotional pens and cups to service providers, then I guess it's worthy of the reference. This guy is a scam, his background is exaggerated and falsified. I honestly thought ZillionTV was already out of business.

Among other things, Mitch Berman is anti-semitic, anti-gay and lesbian and anti-Mexican bigot... MUST READ THESE LINKS:

http://www.xyhd.tv/2009/12/industry-news/bigot-berman-at-least-zilliontvs-discrimination-is-equal-opportunity/

http://www.topix.com/forum/news/gay/T5O941SRHT826LBOQ

Good reporting requires avoiding deception. Great reporting requires ferreting it out. So lets give a hand to Will Richmond with some information about ZillionTV and Mr Berman.

1. ZillionTV
- is down to 5 employees who haven't been paid since May 15 (as most of the company suppliers)
- according to its web site is without a CEO or a CFO
- has been sued multiple times for offenses that range from patent infringement to breach of contract to harassment
- has consumed $60 million to produce no technologies; no products; no users; no customers; absolutely no revenues; but certainly great PR !
- has failed to secure and distribute any ad supported content of significance in spite of the fact that it is the corner stone of its purported disruptive business model.

2. Mr Berman
- claims that he was never involved in a failure yet was CMO of Alopa Networks and CEO of Blend MediaWorks both of which went bankrupt under "his leadership"
- was once fired for violently assaulting a co-worker
- has publicly blamed his failure at the helm of ZillionTV on a/ his investors who didnt give him the resources he needed ($60 million in two years is clearly stingy) b/ his management team (strange since Mr Silva and Catalano, Mrs Stone and Davidoff, were long time partners and colleagues of Mr Berman c/ the economy (which for some reasons didnt seem to affect Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Sezmi)
- pitches himself as a visionary and forward force for the entertainment industry yet a/ doesnt blog b/ doesnt tweet c/ doesnt have a Facebook account d/ first started using a Blackberry two years ago

Every industry has one of these characters with a sketchy past, no substance, but a big ego and a flair for self promotion. We should all look forward to a good laugh when Guru Berman pronounces the future of TV at NAPTE.

I'm much more interested in Mr. Mark Lieberfarb's comment about Disney is giving up idea of KeyChest than the scandals of Mr. Berman. Does anyone know more about KeyChest situation?

Mr. Berman was interviewed, because he is in fact a veteran of Hollywood and you can't knock him for it. As an HBO person who did more than simply "pass out pens"and moved on to build cable in New Zealand. His resume is impressive. Despite possible poor business choices and scandals that may have occured in his companies, he still is a role model and a player in this industry. Who cares if he isn't on twitter or facebook, but his reach stretches beyonds the holds of updating us where he's eating or retweeting articles that others have already retweeted. In the end, he's still on our minds and still in the action if these posts erupt this much activity.

And in terms of being anti-gay, anti-semitic and anti-Mexican bigot--- I can assure you. That's just ridiculous.

There's a lot of idiotic comments here... Yes Zillion was a failure as was Move, Veoh and a bunch of others... Berman never worked at TVIA, although Silva did and is currently being pursued by the SEC.
Berman was the CMO of Alopa for under a year in its decline... For the record 60-70% of venture backed companies hit the wall and explode... Sezmi is toast BTW and the jury is out on Hulu's premium play... you need hundreds of millions to play here... not the lunch money VC's usually put to work.
Berman is a sales-guy and that's the spin you get... If you didn't know that by listening to him for more than sixty seconds, you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer. A lot of ex-Zillion employee's here I suspect...

You bought the BS.

Jim the CG is a troll.... 25% 'close to truth' and 75% made up, or self started rumor.
Zillion blew threw $30M and had little to show... as did many others in this space. I agree with Pablo... a few fired Zillion folks I bet...
Content will always be king and the best platform to allow that to happen will
win... Google Tv ?

Clearly Mr Berman and his disciples have taken to the comments... Everything in here has been verified and is 100% true. The public SEC filings along with the $10M from Qwest and several lines of credit from Sierra Ventures adds up to well over $60M. I worked with HBO during the time that Mr. Berman claims to have been there, the only recollection of his involvement is handing out pens and cups to cable company call centers. Jim the Cable Guy's comment is all true and I'm sure the fact that it includes inside information, really pisses Mr. Berman off. Your disciples are not all so loyal, aye Mitch? Wait until they all start suing you for back wages, damages and fraud...! Yeah Mr. Berman is still relevant in the Silicon Valley and events that are not truly entertainment industry people, just ask any of the studio execs who did not renew their licensing deals with Zillion, or the ones that never gave it to them, Disney, FOX, etc... The truth always comes out!

paco you are... Jim the Cable Guy... troll

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!!!! ZILLIONTV IS FINALLY OUT OF BUSINESS!!! THEIR MAIN LINE IS DISCONNECTED 408-418-4100!!! FINALLY, THESE IDIOTS GET WHAT THEY DESERVE... BURNED THROUGH $60MM, THE BIGGEST SCAM OF THE SILICON VALLEY!!!