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((Short description|Canadian businessman (1921–2013)))
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'''Geoffrey William Stirling''' ((Post-nominals|post-noms=ONL)) (March 22, 1921 – December 21, 2013) was a [[Canadian-American]] businessman and media magnate, best known for his work in his home city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].

==Life==
Stirling was born in St. John's to Edgar Stiling and Ethel (Uphill) Stirling.<ref name="GlobeObit">((cite web|url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mystical-businessman-geoff-stirling-saw-future-in-tv/article16503684/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&|title=‘Mystical’ businessman Geoff Stirling saw future in TV|date=January 24, 2014))</ref> He attended the [[University of Tampa]],<ref name=vicecolumn/> began his media career as a stringer for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'',<ref name=bourette>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930064337/http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20041126/RO12STERLING Smallwood, Lennon, the gods and ME] by Susan Bourette, November 26, 2004</ref> and retained close ties to the United States throughout his lifetime, including a [[snowbird (person)|second winter home]] in [[Arizona]] in his later years. After his brief time in American media, he spent a brief time in [[Honduras]] hunting alligators for skin; he hated the job, but was inspired when he noted that ''[[The Miami Herald]]'' was available there, leading him to conclude that a Newfoundland newspaper would be viable.<ref name=bourette/>

Stirling was a co-founder in the [[Economic Union Party]], a late-1940s political movement that sought closer ties to the United States for the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]], which was then still independent from Canada.<ref name="MacKenzie1986">((cite book|author=David Clark MacKenzie|title=Inside the Atlantic Triangle: Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland Into Confederation, 1939–1949|url=https://archive.org/details/insideatlantictr0000mack|url-access=registration|date=January 1, 1986|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-2587-6))</ref> It was one of two organizations that unsuccessfully opposed the dominion's confederation into Canada, which eventually occurred in 1949. The leader of the confederation forces, [[Joey Smallwood]], was an established rival of Stirling's, having doubted that Stirling's newspaper would succeed because Smallwood himself had failed. Stirling argued that Smallwood's overtly political [[polemic]]s had alienated readers and that a newspaper would need to appeal to a broad audience to succeed.<ref name=bourette/>

==Media businesses==
Along with other members of his family, Stirling owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International.<ref>SCI is not a single legal entity but rather refers collectively to Newfoundland Broadcasting Company Ltd., The Sunday Herald Ltd., Apache Communications International Corporation, and associated holding companies.</ref> Specifically, the properties are independent television station [[CJON-DT]]; radio station [[CHOZ-FM]]; and the ''[[Newfoundland Herald]]'', a weekly news, gossip and [[Broadcast programming|TV listings]] magazine.

Stirling pioneered many television firsts in North America. CJON-TV (NTV) was the first in Newfoundland to air programs in colour.<ref name="GlobeObit" /> CJON-TV became the first station to broadcast 24 hours a day in 1972.

Stirling was also the founder of [[CKGM]], an English-language radio station in [[Montreal]]. in 1959. He owned the station until 1985.<ref name="Inc.1984">((cite book|author=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|title=Billboard|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4CQEAAAAMBAJ|date=December 1, 1984|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4CQEAAAAMBAJ/page/n63 68]–|issn=0006-2510))</ref>

==Personal views==
Stirling is regarded as an eccentric for both how he managed his businesses and for how he used his media outlets to promote a variety of personal interests such as eastern mysticism and intestinal health.<ref>((cite web|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1175564-nl-broadcasting-icon-geoff-stirling-dead-at-92|title=N.L. broadcasting icon Geoff Stirling dead at 92|date=April 14, 2014))</ref><ref name="Nolan2001">((cite book|author=Michael Nolan|title=CTV, the Network that Means Business|url=https://archive.org/details/ctvnetworkthatme00nola|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=978-0-88864-384-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ctvnetworkthatme00nola/page/75 75]–))</ref><ref name=vicecolumn>((cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/dpk7k7/geoff-stirling-tv-man-and-cosmic-guru-was-the-weirdest-man-who-ever-lived-in-newfoundland|title=Geoff Stirling, TV Man and Cosmic Guru, Was the Weirdest Man Who Ever Lived (in Newfoundland)|date=September 22, 2016))</ref> For example, he devoted many hours of, often unscheduled, broadcast time to conversations with [[guru]]s such as [[Ram Dass]] and [[Swami Shyam]] and to a variety of esoteric subjects ranging from [[pyramids]] to [[unidentified flying object]]s, 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&nbsp;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 pre-empt the current broadcast or that the technician apply a particular effect to the screen.

Stirling appeared in the 1974 documentary film ''[[Waiting for Fidel]]'' about a trip he made to [[Cuba]] along with former Newfoundland premier [[Joey Smallwood]] and director [[Michael Rubbo]]. The trio never met the Cuban leader. Many segments of the program involve Smallwood and Stirling discussing what they would like to ask Castro whenever the expected meeting happens. Some of the dialogue occurs while Stirling is demonstrating yoga and standing on his head while he is conversing with Smallwood.<ref name="NFB film">((cite web|url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/waiting_for_fidel|title=Waiting for Fidel|last=Rubbo|first=Michael|year=1974|work=NFB.ca|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=16 March 2009))</ref>

Stirling supervised the creation of the [[graphic novel]] ''Atlantis'' featuring the superheroes Captain Atlantis (Captain Newfoundland) and [[Captain Canada (comics)|Captain Canada]], drawing on elements of Canadian history as well as [[ancient astronauts|ancient alien astronauts]] mythology and [[New Age]] philosophy. Captain Canada has become a mascot for the NTV station and has appeared in television programs, commercials, and numerous public events.

==Later life==
In 2001, Stirling was inducted into the [[Canadian Association of Broadcasters|CAB]] Broadcast Hall of Fame; in 2009, he was awarded the [[Order of Newfoundland and Labrador]]. In his later years, Stirling split his time between [[Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador]], and his ranch in [[Wickenburg, Arizona]], where he once owned Wickenburg radio station [[KSWG]]. Stirling died at the age of 92 on December 21, 2013.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&ID=41841 |title=NL Broadcasting Icon Geoff Stirling Dead at 92 |date=December 22, 2013 |accessdate=December 22, 2013 |publisher=[[VOCM (AM)|VOCM]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224112832/http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&ID=41841 |archivedate=December 24, 2013 ))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*((imdb title|0196195|Waiting for Fidel))
*[http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php?id=64 Biography from the History of Canadian Broadcasting site]
*[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/canatlan.htm The Atlantis Universe – with photos of the characters]

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