Chris Palliser may be the only former Camosun student to have ever gotten detention. With his easy-going and talkative manner, it is easy to see how he would have gotten in trouble when he was younger. It is this sociable personality however that landed him a job in radio in the first place. “I talk for a living and I like to talk” Palliser says, “I get my battery recharged around people”. This outgoing and extroverted personality is especially useful since, as a radio personality, you are trying to convince the listener that you are just a group of friends having fun, Palliser says. So basically, you have to be able to get along with everyone.
Chris went to school at Camosun in the Applied Communications program in 2001 and graduated with a full-time radio job. He has worked in multiple different radio stations across BC and Alberta over the past 19 years and has acquired a wealth of knowledge. He says to never say no to an opportunity, because every opportunity that comes your way was a new experience from which you either learned something or something cool happens. Palliser recalled a time when he was in Vancouver and the Canucks needed someone to emcee one of their parties. No one else wanted to take the gig because it was unpaid, but when Palliser took it, they ended up inviting him back. The next year though, they gave him a ticket to one game and then the next year, they gave him two free tickets until finally, in 2011, they invited him back and gave him two tickets to every home game of the Stanley Cup play offs. So, just by being a yes man, Palliser opened doors to amazing opportunities both in his professional and personal life. Currently, he is working at Virgin radio on the morning show. He got there by always keeping an open mind, learning, saying yes and never developing an ego. For anyone looking to go into the radio industry, this is advice to live by.
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