Geoff Stirling

Who was Geoff Stirling?

Geoffrey William Stirling was a Canadian businessman. He was born in St. John's. Stirling, had owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International. Specifically, these properties are CJON-DT which goes by the slogan Canada's Superstation; 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 Scott, and Scott and Judy's son, Jesse. 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.