Sponsors

Federal Express Canada Ltd. is a global logistics and transportation company offering domestic and international shipping and electronic commerce solutions. The company uses advanced package status tracking systems, automated customs clearance services and a dedicated air and ground transportation network to serve Canadian and global markets. FedEx Express Canada employs approximately 5,000 people in over 60 facilities coast-to-coast. For more information, visit www.fedex.ca.

‘A’ British Columbia’s approach to serving Vancouver Island is directly inspired by its local viewers and advertisers. Energy, enthusiasm and intense pride for the region are brought to every involvement the station enters into. The station’s news team has been recognized with twenty-three broadcast industry awards for excellence in the past four years including receiving RTNDA International Awards for “Best Newscast”, “Best Investigative Reporting” and “Overall Excellence”. ‘A’ British Columbia’s involvement, however, goes far beyond local news. The station is one of the leading supporters of community groups and charitable organizations on Vancouver Island through its sponsorships of local activities and events.

Victoria International Airport (Airport Code: YYJ) is the 9th busiest airport in Canada with over 1.5 million passengers per annum. Victoria is well served with more than 60 daily departures and convenient non-stop or one-stop service to every major Canadian city and many US destinations.

Information on flight times, airlines, food service, shopping, currency exchange, parking, ground transportation, and other passenger services is all available at www.victoriaairport.com.

CHEK is truly Your Island's Own -- independent and employee-owned!

CHEK has served Vancouver Island since 1956. It was the first private TV station in BC.

In September 2009, with overwhelming support from communities across Vancouver Island, CHEK employees and local investors purchased the station to ensure the Island's most watched news remained on-air. And in recognition of the remarkable effort and investment put forth by all involved, in January 2010, the employees of CHEK NEWS were honoured with a national award for Journalistic Integrity by the Canadian Journalism Foundation.

Brown’s The Florist has two beautiful, full service flower shops located in Victoria and Sidney. We are an award winning team of professional florists who specialize in quality local and imported flowers, plants and gift baskets, and we are famous for our great customer service. We are open and deliver 7 days a week. We are proud to be Victoria's oldest florist, celebrating our 100th birthday in 2012.

107.3 KOOL FM is Today’s Best Music, offering you a fun choice at work! 107.3 KOOL FM is energetic and up beat, playing the best of today’s hot artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West, Nickelback, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, and Britney Spears. 107.3 KOOL FM is your ticket to the koolest concerts and your link to the most exciting contests, including Beat the Bank! 107.3 KOOL FM is committed to serving the community and its fundraising initiatives and events.

National Car & Truck Rental is locally owned and operated and has locations in Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo, Courtenay/Comox, Port Hardy and North Vancouver. We rent cars and trucks including 1 ton - 5ton cube trucks, panel vans and 7-15 passenger vans.

All National rentals include 2 for 1 Passenger fares on selected BC Ferries Gulf Islands and Duke Point & Tsawwassen, discounts on golf, Butchart Gardens and Mt Washington lift tickets and summer chair lift rides. Visit www.nationalvictoria.com for more details.

National has 3 Car & Truck Sales locations in Victoria, Nanaimo, and North Vancouver.

The Times Colonist is the oldest daily newspaper in Western Canada. Founded in 1858, the newspaper is the dominant media outlet in Victoria, with a daily circulation of about 70,000 and a weekly readership of over 214,000 in print and online.

While local news is front and centre in all sections of the newspaper, the Times Colonist also features national and international stories, plus sections covering the arts, sports and business.

The Times Colonist, which publishes seven days per week, has won a number of provincial and national awards, including several Jack Webster awards for the best print reporting in British Columbia. The newspaper has also won several National Newspaper awards, the highest honour in Canadian journalism.

98.5 The OCEAN is Today's Lite Rock, an adult contemporary station, featuring the long running morning show Forbes & Marshall. We are "Victoria's At Work Radio Station" and proud home of "The OCEAN Jet", giving away more free vacations than any other radio station in Victoria!

Black Press serves small communities like Sooke as well as BC's major urban centres, Victoria and Vancouver. Its papers are widely read in some of the fastest-growing communities in Canada, like Kelowna, Nanaimo and Surrey.

What separates Black Community newspapers from others? Our suburban and urban newspapers provide readers with a superior blend of localized news coverage that is recognized with numerous editorial awards every year. We invest in relevant, high quality journalism that affects the lives of our readers and the communities we serve. This commitment is complemented by award winning photography and marketing partnership. Black Press Community and Daily Newspapers are all the places that you want to be.

What is the voice of your brand? Friendly without being folksy, confident without being aloof, at IdeaZone.ca we have the ability to develop relevant branding strategies with moods that run from hip to nostalgic to brash to eloquent. It all depends on you, your product, your market, the competition and the opportunity presented. IdeaZone.ca is Victoria website design, and so much more.

C-FAX 1070 is "Victoria's News Authority".

Local, national and international news and sports coverage is non-stop.

Weekdays begin with the Al Ferraby, followed by Joe Easingwood, Murray Langdon, Noon News, the Lunch Bunch, Dave Dickson and Adam Stirling.

On weekends, programs include a variety of live local and network talk shows focusing on entertainment, food, health, home repairs, finance, pets and more.

On top of great programming, C-FAX 1070 is well known for its on-air celebrities, community spirit and charity involvement.

C-FAX 1070 earned Victoria's first "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce in 2002.

103.1 JACK FM…"Playing What We Want"! What we want is more Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Bryan Adams, Rolling Stones, Elton John, KISS, Blondie, Queen, Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Prince, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, The Tragically Hip, Aerosmith, U2, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen, The Police, Def Leppard, John Mellancamp, AC/DC, Phil Collins, INXS…we could keep going considering we boastfully have the biggest library of music on the island but we won't! Listen weekday mornings to the JACK Morning Show with AJ & Crash for laughs and good times from 6am-10am!