F. Baxter Ricard

Félix Baxter Ricard (1905 – 1993) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor.

Born in 1905 in Verner, Ontario, he moved to Sudbury in childhood with his father Félix Ricard, who became a hardware merchant in the city and a longtime trustee on the French-language school board. He married Alma Ricard in adulthood, and the couple took over management and operation of the store until moving into broadcasting.

In 1947, Ricard obtained a radio licence to establish CHNO in Sudbury, Ontario, the first bilingual radio station in Canada outside of Quebec. Ten years later, in 1957, he became the first commercial radio broadcaster in Canada licensed to operate two AM stations in the same city. CHNO became an all-English station, and Ricard's new CFBR became the new French outlet. A third station, CJMX, was established on FM in 1980.

In 1972, Baxter also launched Northern Cable, a cable television service for Northern Ontario. In 1980, Northern Cable became the major shareholder in MCTV, when Cambrian Broadcasting and J. Conrad Lavigne's broadcast holdings were merged for financial reasons.