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Independent technology advice & leadership

Build what’s next in broadcast and media.

Turn a promising idea into a workable plan, or bring a new service to market. Barrington Technology offers independent advice and hands-on leadership for the work ahead.

You’ll work with Mark Barrington, founder and former CTO.

Experience in practice

Orby TV · National service launch

A national TV service,
from the ground up.

  1. Designed the system
  2. Built the team
  3. Launched the service

As CTO and co-founder, Mark designed the broadcast system and built the engineering and logistics team. Orby TV launched nationally in under one year and on budget.

Explore the launch

Selected experience

Different challenges.
Real responsibility.

Broadcast spectrum

Analysis behind an $84 million auction outcome

Mark developed software to support a broadcaster’s bidding decisions in the FCC spectrum auction. Winning station bids generated the proceeds while the broadcaster kept its station portfolio intact.

See the spectrum work

ATSC 3.0

A new broadcast service, on the air

As project lead for a broadcaster’s initial ATSC 3.0 station launch, Mark coordinated the transmitter installation, channel moves, station agreements and viewer notices.

Explore ATSC 3.0 expertise

How Mark helps

The right involvement
for the work ahead.

Early choices about systems and suppliers can decide whether a launch stays on budget. Get an outside view before you commit, or experienced leadership to carry the work through.

Focused advisory

Get a clear view
before you commit.

Explore an opportunity, compare approaches or challenge a supplier’s proposal. Mark examines the technical and commercial questions so you can decide what is worth pursuing.

A recommendation, an assessment of the options or a practical roadmap, shaped around your question.

Initiative leadership

Put the plan
into practice.

Bring Mark into a demanding phase of product development or launch. He works directly with your team and suppliers on the architecture, open decisions and work needed to get there.

An agreed leadership role, with a clear scope and endpoint. Interim executive roles are also possible.

Already under way, but losing momentum? Mark can help establish what has changed and lead the work to get it moving again.

More about working together

The person behind the practice

Mark Barrington

Founder and Principal

Mark works with your leadership team and the people building the service. He stays close to the technical detail, so his advice reflects what it will take to deliver.

Meet Mark

From engineering
to the CTO’s chair.

Mark’s career spans digital television R&D at Sony, engineering leadership at Disney’s MovieBeam and co-founding Orby TV as CTO. He has designed systems, built teams and taken responsibility for launches.

Through Barrington Technology, he can discuss the business case with your leadership team and work through the technical detail with the people building it.

Career experience

Sony ITV Digital Disney · MovieBeam
Wind River ION Media Networks Orby TV

Start a conversation

Let’s talk it through.

Have a project or a question in mind? Arrange a free introductory call with Mark to discuss what you’re considering and hear his initial thoughts.