Geoff Stirling

Geoffrey William Stirling (March 21, 1921 – December 21, 2013) was a Newfoundland businessman. Born in St. John's, Stirling, along with other members of his family, owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International. Specifically, these properties are independent television station CJON-DT; radio station CHOZ-FM; and the Newfoundland Herald, a weekly news, gossip and TV listings magazine.

In some circles, Stirling is regarded as an eccentric for the way in which he has used his media outlets to promote a variety of personal interests such as eastern mysticism and intestinal health. For example, he devoted many hours of, often unscheduled, broadcast time to conversations with gurus such as Ram Dass and Swami Shyam and to a variety of esoteric subjects ranging from pyramids to unidentified flying objects, a practice which continues today as the station is run by his son G. Scott Stirling. Geoff's grandson, Jesse is the host of the CJON interview program "Meetings with Remarkable People". Many of his past interviews and archives can be seen currently on CJON on Saturday mornings from 2 to 4 AM Newfoundland time, under the name "Captain Atlantis Late Night". When he watched his own television station he would sometimes phone Master Control to order that a favorite tape immediately preempt the current broadcast, or, that the technician apply a particular effect to the screen. Stirling himself claimed that after being diagnosed with arthritis he had a doctor inject liquid gold directly into his blood.

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