Editing George Barnes (BBC controller) (section)

{{Short description|British broadcasting executive}}
{{For|other people of the same name|George Barnes (disambiguation)}}
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'''Sir George Reginald Barnes''' (13 September 1904 – 22 September 1960) was a British [[broadcasting]] executive, who was a station Controller of both [[BBC Radio]] and later [[BBC Television]] in the 1940s and 1950s. He was Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, now [[Keele University]], from 1956 to 1960.<ref name = "ODNB">[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30603 Laurence Gilliam: ''Barnes, Sir George Reginald'', rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 26 Oct 2012]</ref>