Barry Johnstone

COO, Euro Media Group — Managing Director, CTV Outside Broadcasts

Barry Johnstone has been Managing Director of CTV since 1981 when CTV was a fledgling post production and studio facility. He was responsible for their move into the mobile television business in the mid 80’s – CTV was then known as Carlton TV and became the UK’s premier broadcast facilities provider.

In 1995 Johnstone bought the non-outside broadcast business from the parent company Carlton Communications and in 1996 re-entered the outside broadcast market place with a new fleet of digital trucks.

Johnstone split up the company in 1999 and sold CTV Outside Broadcasts to NMT, the studio and transmission facilities were re branded as Corinthian TV and sold to Technicolor / Thomson in 2004.

Barry subsequently oversaw the sale of CTV Ob’s to the UBF Media Group in 2005.

In October 2007 the UBF Media Group merged with France’s Euro Media Television to create Europe’s largest Broadcast facilities provider, Barry will continue as MD of CTV and combine this with his new role of COO of the Euro Media Group.

November 2, 2009 · Posted in Speaker Bios