Ted Reynolds, whose career at CM radio spanned 1947 to 1956, was the first fulltime sportscaster in Victoria history. Ted broadcast the first ever Cougars hockey game at Memorial Arena in 1949 and the first Shamrocks lacrosse game the following summer. He provided live reports from a radio in his car when the 1955 Canadian Ladies Golf Championship was held at Royal Colwood and he spent many a day and night bobbing on a boat doing live coverage of the famous Juan de Fuca Strait swims that captured the imagination of the world in the 1950s. Ted joined CBC Television in 1956 and become celebrated for his coverage of aquatic events at six Summer Olympics from Tokyo in 1964 to Seoul in 1988, eight Commonwealth Games and four Pan-American Games. Ted also covered four Winter Olympics for CBC from Grenoble in 1968 to Calgary in 1988, the world figure-skating championships five times, World Cup equestrian show jumping five times, world aquatic championships three times, world snooker championships five times and 20 World Cup ski races from 1960 to 1982. Ted also performed hosting and play-by-play duties at 10 Canada Games, both summer and winter. He was a co-recipient of the 2002 Sid Thomas Award for Sports Media.

The late Bill Walker was one of Victoria's best Ioved sportswriters during his lengthy career at the Times and Times Colonist. His tenure at the Victoria newspapers spanned 36 years from 1946 to 1983 with 22 of those years spent as a sportswriter covering the local scene. Gentlemanly and decent both as a person and writer, Bill had an eye for detail and his stories resonated with homespun charm and were always entertaining and thorough. From 1946 to 1956, Bill covered the great Victoria Dominoes basketball dynasty, minor pro baseball at RAP and Victoria sporting legends such as Lester Patrick. Bill was Times sports editor from 1951 to 1956, covering events such as the Miracle Mile at the 1954 Commonwealth Games, the Juan de Fuca Strait swim craze and Cougars hockey and Shamrocks lacrosse games. He was elevated to the position of news editor for the Times in 1956 and returned to the sports department in 1969 where he continued to cover sports both for the Times, and the merged Times Colonist, until his retirement in 1983. He was a co-recipient of the 2002 Sid Thomas Award for Sports Media.