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Support for Community Events

We provide support for community events in three ways:

  • Our free Community Events Calendar. Our hosts read from this when giving event updates on the air.

  • In-kind advertising for tickets/festival passes with paid advertising campaigns.

  • Free advertising to VIU campus clubs and course unions.

Community Events Calendar

Many of our hosts give community event updates on their programs, picking and choosing from events submitted by our listeners.

When submitting an event using the form, please include a live read script for our hosts to work from on air with all the required information in the script i.e., Who/What/Where/When/Why. This can be submitted in point form or in a 25-27-second live-read script.

Script Example:

The White Room welcomes Juno award-winning instrumentalist Gord Grdina, back to Nanimo Tuesday, July 16th to celebrate his record release on Nanaimo’s own Black Dot Records. Special guests Orchestra Criminal from Montreal. Doors at 8:00 PM. Admission prices, only $15 and available to the door. And it's at #4 Church Street upstairs at the White Room.

This is a voicemail recording of the above live read.

Tickets/Festival Passes

For promotion on our free community calendary, ✅ We highly encourage you to offer 1-2 pairs of tickets for your event or a few festival passes. These tickets or passes are given away to our supporters and listeners, which assists in keeping CHLY financially sustainable through their support.

Advertising Campaigns

If you are interested in a advertising campaign for your event, a portion of your campaign can be made up of in-kind advertising in trade for tickets/festival passes. Inquire here about advertising campaigns for events.

Event advertising for Campus Clubs / Course Unions

Campus clubs and course unions at the Nanaimo campus of VIU can access 56 30-second ads per semester to promote their events ($428 in value). This credit must be used within the semester and does not roll over into the next semester.

You can also record your audio in the studio. Email admin@chly.ca or call 250.716.3410 to schedule a time to come into the station to record a higher-quality promo. Please come with a script in hand!

Events policy

CHLY reserves the right to pull submitted events from its community calendar that promote racism, homophobia, sexism, or violent action (or rhetoric) against vulnerable groups.

You can view events already in our on-air system by clicking here. Some events are prioritized based on timeliness and partnerships CHLY may have with those organizers or venues.