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About John Barsotti

John Barsotti is now retired and residing in Canada after 40 years in the media and advertising. His career began in 1964 in the Promotions and Commercial Production Department of Trinidad & Tobago Television. In 1970 he was promoted to the position of Commercial Production Director and in 1974 to Assistant Programme Director. In 1976 he left TTT and joined Carib Lager Brewery as Advertising Coordinator and after just two years, moved to Lonsdale Advertising as an Account Executive. In 1978, John was invited to rejoin TTT as Programme Director and accepted the position which he held for about 41/2 years before being promoted to General Manager in 1983. During his stint in television, he was exposed to many areas of the industry from producing to directing and from news and sport to announcing. As Programme Director and later on as General Manager he represented TTT as Vice President of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and served for four years on the Standing Committee of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. John's unexpected departure from TTT was in 1987, but he continued in the industry by joining AVM Television as its General Manager, a position that he held for close to a year before deciding to migrate to Canada. In 1997 he returned to Trinidad and joined the Tourism & Industrial Development Company as Manager, Corporate Communications and after five years with TIDCO, returned to television as Chief Executive Officer of the National Broadcasting Network of Trinidad & Tobago. John enjoys and follows most sports with golf which he plays, football and cricket topping his list of all time favourites. He is still a full-time member of the Queen's Park Cricket Club and a past member of the St. Andrew's Golf Club.