Kate Wood

Seven weeks ago Chris Palliser started as the co-host of the morning show at Virgin 107.3 FM. Palliser has hopped around several Canadian cities in his radio career, and has finally made it back to his hometown of Victoria. It hasn’t always been easy, but every step along the way has led Palliser to where he is today. “Just like anything, you start small and work your way up,” says Palliser. After graduating from Applied Communication at Camosun College he moved to Fort McMurray, this is a period of time he refers to as “Dark December”. “I left Victoria, it was 12 degrees and raining at the end of November,” says Palliser. “I landed in Fort McMurray, it was minus 32 and dark at 2:30 in the afternoon and I thought what the hell did I just do?”             From Fort McMurray, Palliser moved to Edmonton to work for Joe FM. At 25 years old he moved from Edmonton to Vancouver to work for The Beat 94.5. Palliser was excited to b...

When Steve Webb started, he was just a poster boy. He was working in the competitive market of nightclub promotion, fighting over space on the streets to advertise events. When Webb saw the potential to market his skills in business and design, he started Metropol, which is now a full service design and print shop. “It occurred to me that we were all spending wasting a lot of money trying to compete for a finite amount of space,” says Webb. “I would fight for equal representation… I would put up a poster on every second cylinder, and everyone would get the same coverage; regardless of how much money they had the ability to spend.” This allowed for a more broad reflection of events in the community such as all ages events, as well as saving promoters the time and money it took to battle over telephone poles. “The city loved the idea, a lot of the individual promoters didn’t,” says Webb. For the first four years he walked the streets putting up posters. Over time and through nego...