Jim Nunn, the previous host of CBC Information Nova Scotia at Six, Land and Sea and Marketplaceshas died after a battle with most cancers.
Nunn died in hospital in Antigonish, NS, on Sunday night time. He was 72. No date has been set for a funeral, however his household mentioned there could be a celebration of life deliberate for a while within the spring.
“Jim was fairly the character. He was identified to many in Nova Scotia as this nice journalist however finally individuals who knew him rather well, he was a fantastic man,” Nunn’s brother, Bruce, advised CBC Information.
Bruce mentioned his brother’s broadcast profession began on the knee of their father “on the microphone of CJFX radio in Antigonish … so Jim acquired into the enterprise very early.”
Bruce mentioned he is learn condolence messages on-line from individuals speaking about how his brother had an influence on their profession.
His profession at CBC spanned three many years. Nunn was identified for his native election protection and reporting from main Nova Scotia occasions just like the Westray mining catastrophe.
‘He actually represented the working man’
“He was there, like stay on TV for days on finish. It was making an attempt and it was tough however he acquired so many compliments for the work that he did there. He actually represented the working man, this very harmful occupation that is rooted in Nova Scotia tradition and historical past,” Bruce mentioned.
Geoff D’Eon, Nunn’s government producer from 1988-93 when he was anchor of First Versionmentioned Nunn was a “fearsome and fearless journalist.”
“He had a extremely terrific journalist mind … he’d all the time ask actually probing and generally impertinent questions and I personally felt he was a terrific broadcaster and CBC and Nova Scotians have been fortunate to have him as host of the present,” D’ Eon mentioned.
D’Eon mentioned some viewers discovered Nunn’s interviewing model to be impolite and infrequently offensive. D’Eon recalled getting letters about it.
WATCH | Jim Nunn’s farewell from CBC Nova Scotia
“I all the time discovered his interviewing model to be very candid and he pulled no punches and he all the time wished to get to the guts of the matter … this was very true along with his interviews with politicians,” D’Eon mentioned, including some politicians did not wish to be interviewed by Nunn as a result of they have been intimidated by him.
D’Eon mentioned considered one of his most memorable interviews was with rock star Alice Cooper, who grabbed him by the throat and threatened to tear his eyeballs out and throw them throughout the studio. That snippet is posted in a video that lives on YouTube.
“If I needed to carry it down to at least one factor, I might say that when you have been taken with public coverage or politics in Nova Scotia and also you wished an ally within the journalistic neighborhood to search out out what was occurring and to carry individuals accountable, Jim Nunn would have been your finest buddy,” D’Eon mentioned.
In 2008, Nunn performed an notorious interview with actor John Dunsworth about Park Boys trailers coming to an finish.
Throughout that interview, Nunn mentioned to Dunsworth, “Is not it a beautiful factor that this terrible tv present stuffed with foul mouthed, dope smoking, hard-drinking individuals who, you realize, give a really dangerous impression of the poor who stay in trailer parks … is not it nice that it is gone?”
Dunsworth, who performed Jim Lahey on the present, replied, “You may must forgive Mr. Nunn, I believe he is giving a Pat Robertson impersonation.”
Dunsworth additionally clarified in a 2015 tweet that Nunn was “acting” during that interview.
Later, Nunn would seem within the film, Trailer Park Boys: Do not Legalize It.
WATCH | Jim Nunn’s interview with John Dunsworth
In 2008, John Dunsworth was interviewed by former CBC Nova Scotia anchor Jim Nunn concerning the unique Trailer Park Boys sequence coming to an finish.
Nunn retired from CBC in 2009. Bruce Nunn mentioned his brother “preferred to stay within the current” and was a superb gardener at his residence in Antigonish. He mentioned he would drive to the Canso Causeway as soon as a day to purchase the Globe and Mail.
“He was the form of man who simply wished to be, he was superb at simply being himself,” Bruce mentioned.
Certainly one of his favourite recollections of his brother was throughout a winter storm when the tremendous hour information present had deliberate to do a phone-in with individuals throughout Nova Scotia. However through the present, the know-how failed.
“Jim was on stay TV with nobody to speak to, making an attempt to fill lifeless air and he turned to the digicam confidently and mentioned, ‘My mom advised me there have been going to be days like this.’ So he had a humorousness and he knew tips on how to work tv nicely, he knew tips on how to use the second, he was good at what he did,” he mentioned.
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