Geoffrey William Stirling (born St. John's, 1921) is a Canadian businessman. Stirling, along with other members of his family, owns several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International. Specifically, these properties are CJON-TV, the province's dominant evening news television station; radio station CHOZ-FM; and the Newfoundland Herald, a weekly news, gossip an...
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Geoffrey William Stirling (born St. John's, 1921) is a Canadian businessman. Stirling, along with other members of his family, owns several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International. Specifically, these properties are CJON-TV, the province's dominant evening news television station; 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 sons Scott and Jesse. When he watched...
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