Nunn worked at CBC for 30 years. He died of cancer on Sunday night in the hospital
Jim Nunn, the former host of CBC News Nova Scotia at Six, Land and Sea and Marketplacedied after fighting cancer for a long time.
On Sunday night, Nunn died in a hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He was 72. No funeral date has been set, but his family has said that there will be a party to honor his life sometime in the spring.
“Jim was a very interesting person. “Many people in Nova Scotia knew him as a great journalist, but those who knew him best said he was also a great person,” Bruce Nunn, Nunn’s brother, told CBC News.
Bruce said that his brother Jim’s career in broadcasting began when their father put Jim “on his knee at the microphone of CJFX radio in Antigonish.” This means that Jim got into the business at a very young age.
Bruce said that he has seen online condolence messages from people who talked about how his brother affected their careers.
He worked at CBC for thirty years. Nunn was known for his coverage of local elections and big events in Nova Scotia, such as the Westray mining disaster.
“He really stood for the working class.
“He was there, and he watched it on TV for days. Even though it was hard and took a lot of work, he got a lot of praise for the work he did there. “He really represented the working man and his dangerous job, which is a part of the culture and history of Nova Scotia,” Bruce said.
Geoff D’Eon was Nunn’s executive producer when he was the anchor of from 1988 to 1993.First Edition, said Nunn was a “terrifying and fearless reporter.”
“He had a great journalist’s mind,” D’Eon said. “He always asked very probing and sometimes rude questions, and I thought he was a great broadcaster.” “CBC and Nova Scotians were lucky to have him as the host of the show.”
D’Eon said that some people found Nunn’s way of interviewing rude and sometimes offensive. D’eon remembered hearing about it in letters.
WATCH | The end of Jim Nunn’s time at CBC Nova Scotia
“His interviewing style was always very honest, and he never held back.” He always wanted to get to the heart of the matter. “This was especially true with his interviews with politicians,” D’Eon said, adding that some politicians didn’t want to be interviewed by Nunn because they were afraid of him.
D’Eon said that one of his most memorable interviews was with rock star Alice Cooper, who grabbed him by the throat and threatened to rip out his eyes and throw them all over the studio. This piece of audio is in a video on YouTube.
“If I had to boil it down to one thing, I would say that if you were interested in public policy or politics in Nova Scotia and you wanted a friend in the journalism world to find out what was going on and hold people accountable, Jim Nunn would have been your best friend,” D’Eon said.
In 2008, Nunn talked to actor John Dunsworth in a well-known interview aboutTrailer Park Boys coming to an end.
During that interview, Nunn said to Dunsworth, “Isn’t it great that this awful TV show full of foul-mouthed, dope-smoking, hard-drinking people who, you know, give a very bad impression of the poor who live in trailer parks is gone?”
Dunsworth, who played Jim Lahey on the show, replied, “You’ll have to forgive Mr. Nunn.” I think he’s trying to be Pat Robertson.
In a tweet from 2015, Dunsworth also made it clear that Nunn was “acting” during that interview.
Nunn would later show up in the movie.Don’t make it legal, say the trailer park boys..
WATCH | The talk between Jim Nunn and John Dunsworth
In 2009, Nunn left the CBC. Bruce Nunn said that his brother, who lived in Antigonish, “liked to live in the present” and was a great gardener at home. He said that once a day he would drive to the Canso Causeway to buy the Globe and Mail.
Bruce said, “He was the kind of guy who just wanted to be himself, and he was very good at that.”
One of his favorite memories of his brother was during a winter storm when people from all over Nova Scotia were going to call into the evening news show. But the technology broke down during the show.
“Jim was on live TV with no one to talk to. He was looking for something to say, so he turned to the camera and said, “My mother told me there would be days like this.” So he was funny and knew how to work TV well. “He knew how to make the most of the moment and was good at what he did,” he said.
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