Inside CHLY Radio
Daxton Comba | Associate Media Editor
10.25.25| News | Vol. 57, No. 2 | Video
In the second instalment of his classic media series, The Nav’s Videographer Daxton Comba tours Nanaimo's local campus community radio, CHLY 101.7 FM, to learn more about how radio stations are run. Passing 24 years of broadcasting this October, CHLY is looking toward the quarter-century anniversary of campus community radio on the Salish Sea. Daxton speaks with CHLY Executive Director and Station Manager Jesse Woodword about his roles at the station, how the station operates, and plans for the near future, with comments from CHLY volunteer and Wednesday host of the VIU Meter Maggie MacLachlan on learning to host and the role of volunteers at the station.
Daxton Comba
Daxtonis a fourth-year Creative Writing student at VIU, a Graphic Designer, physical media hoarder, and filmmaker. He served as Script Editor and Audio/Visual intern forPortal2025, and moved to Acquisitions Editor forPortal2026 while working as videographer forThe Nav. His writing has been published in bothPortalandGOOEYmagazines, and he received the Meadowlarks Award for Fiction in 2025.
A short stage play of his was produced for VIU’s 2025 One-Act Festival, and over the summer he wrote and directed a stage play titled Funeral Cake for the 2026 Nanaimo Fringe Fest. He is now the Associate Media Manager for Vol. 58 atThe Navigator, and insists that he has overcome his fear of ghosts.
