Public service and brought you today by your television provider. Good evening, welcome to quail ridge books it is my honor to introduce to you jim jenkins who was an editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page of the news and observer for 31 years your he will introduce our special guest. Please help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] in 1973 i saw him first, across and loud profane, filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. He was right at a school. I was still in school. I looked across and is said to someone, whos that . No, thats David Zucchino come hes going to be the new star here. He had long dark hair over his shoulders, thick jet black mustache. It was a long time ago. David is a grad of the unc Journalism School and in in the manatt of the journalism hall of fame. In raleigh he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the reporting staff saying each reportable submit to his editor every morning and itinerar
Editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page of the news and observer for 31 years. He will introduce our special guest lease help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] come on up, zuck. In 1973 i saw him first. Across a loud, profane, filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. He was right out of school. I was still in school. I looked across and is said to someone, whose that . , thats david zucchino. Is going to be the new star here. He had long, dark hair over his shoulders, a thick jet black mustache. It was a long time ago. [laughing] david is a grad of the unc Journalism School and a member not of the journalism hall of fame. In raleigh he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the reporting staff saying each reporter will submit to his editor every morning and itinerary for his plans for the day. David even then impossible to came, sat down at the old manual typewriter. Its a legendary story. Many of the people w
Takes American History tv on the road to feature the history of cities across america. Here is a recent program. Are on the campus of university of North Carolina on chapel hill. Both schools have a good claim to make. University of georgia was first. Ed they received their charter in 1785. The unc charter came a few years later, but unc was first open. The university and the city were founded at the same time. ,hen this city was selected there was no town or village. There were a few neighboring farms. There was an anglican chapel. There was no town to speak of. On the day they laid the cornerstone for the First University building, they had an auction of town lots. They understood that if the university was going to succeed, they needed to be a town around to support it, so really the town and university were born on the same day. University was chartered in 1789. The ground broke for the first building in 1793. A year and a half later, they held an opening ceremony. Events on campus
temperature 17 or 18 degrees tomorrow afternoon. we have that line of rain moving down from the north west tomorrow. it will continue down into england and wales on friday. this could give us not just more cloud, but it could pop off a few more sharp showers into england and wales. to the north, we have more sunshine this time in scotland and northern ireland, although the cloud will build up a bit and spread out. it should be dry in scotland and northern ireland. 18 degrees will be very quiet in the central belt. 16 or 17 towards the south east where we have the showers. the weekend looking quite promising. for many places it will be dry. some warm spells of sunshine. more cloud in the north, may be a little rain into northern scotland. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall. it s the stage for one of footballs epic battles. etihad close the showdown between manchester city and real madrid with the winner getting a chance to lift the winner getting a chance to lift
We knew today was going to be cloudier and a little more damp. It is. As you take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan weve had decent showers pushing through reading, the legal getting that now. The farther north you go theres a little bit of blue and we have that concern up north of some possible freezing rain. Theres also another cluster of showers down south. In the middle in philadelphia nothing right now although were expecting more rain to move in and cover more of the region probable around midday. As we take a look the freezing rain advisory still up until 10 oclock, its mainly Northampton County and points north into the poconos. Just be careful up there if you do see rain in these areas, it might be freezing up on the roads in some spots. As we take a look wide there is additional rain out by pittsburgh. This is going to come in later in the morning between about 10 oclock and 1 oclock theres a pretty good chance of you see seeing rain. 43 degrees in philadelphia, coole