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Company that grew from [a=Steve Gottlieb]'s Tee Vee Toons record label and its surprise success with the original [i]Television's Greatest Hits[/i] album. TVT would release seven more volumes in the popular TV theme song compilation series in addition to 30+ movie and TV soundtrack albums. TVT also expanded into signing artists as diverse as [a=Shona Laing], [a=Nine Inch Nails], [a=Jimmy Page], [a=Ying Yang Twins], [a=Lil Jon], [a=Aphex Twin], [a=KMFDM] and [a=Snoop Dogg]. TVT acquired [l=Wax Trax! Records] in 1992, putting it at the forefront of the industrial music scene. It also created music publishing and distribution units. After costly legal disputes involving [a=Ja Rule] (over contractual obligations) and [l=Slip-N-Slide Records] over the rights to early material by [a=Pitbull], the label filed for bankruptcy in 2007. TVT's assets, excluding the music publishing unit (which Gottlieb still owns), were awarded to UK-based digital music distributor [l=The Orchard] by a New York bankruptcy judge in June 2008.