Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Acadia Broadcasting Limited is a privately held Canadian radio broadcasting company that owns and operates 16 FM radio stations across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Northwestern Ontario. The company is controlled by Ocean Capital Investments, part of the Irving Group of Companies, and is headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The company's roots trace to 1928, when C.A. Monro Limited launched CFBO, Saint John's first commercial radio station, under Canada's radio license No. 23. Saint John Publishing Company acquired CFBO in 1934 and renamed it CHSJ. In 1944, Kenneth C. Irving purchased Saint John Publishing, bringing CHSJ into the Irving family of companies. The Saint John-based New Brunswick Broadcasting Company and the Bridgewater, Nova Scotia-based Acadia Broadcasting Company Limited merged operations in 2001 and were formally amalgamated under the Acadia Broadcasting name in 2003. The company expanded into Northwestern Ontario in 2007 with the acquisition of Fawcett Broadcasting's stations in Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances, and has since added stations in Thunder Bay (2010), Moncton (2014), Yarmouth (2016), Halifax (2021) and the Kenora area (2023) through acquisitions approved by the CRTC.
CFBO's first broadcast in 1928 was a hockey game between Saint John and Truro teams. The company has more recently launched RoundTable Creative, a digital marketing subsidiary, and an Acadia Insights podcast, as part of an effort to diversify beyond terrestrial radio.
President: Shelley Snodgrass (effective December 1, 2025, succeeding Chris Pearson, who had served as president since 2016)
Acadia Broadcasting's stations draw an average of more than 400,000 monthly listeners across Atlantic Canada and Northwestern Ontario. Combined station websites record an average of 5.3 million pageviews monthly, and the company's markets are served by roughly 8,400 advertising clients.
Address
58 King Street
Saint John, NB, Canada
Phone
+1 506-648-2100
Email
info@radioabl.ca
Website
https://acadiabroadcasting.ca
Sources
Broadcast Dialogue. Shelley Snodgrass to succeed Chris Pearson as Acadia Broadcasting president
Atlantic Business Magazine. Acadia Broadcasting, on the air for 94 years
CRTC. Ownership - Broadcasting - Acadia Broadcasting
Acadia Broadcasting. Our Culture
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