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Longtime Politics Show "NC Spin" Not Renewed

NC Spin has been critical of how the UNC System board has handled a number of higher education officials, including former UNC President Margaret Spellings. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Long-running state politics television show NC Spin won't have its contract renewed. The public affairs show has aired for nearly 22 years. But that run appears to be almost over.

The show features founder and host Tom Campbell leading a discussion of state political issues with four panelists.  

Campbell tells The News & Observer of Raliegh that he learned in an email that NC Spin will end after its contract is up this year.

He told the newspaper he had heard the program was the subject of conversations among members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. That was after the show was critical of the board over its handling of higher education officials.

Kevin Fitzgerald, the interim executive director and general manager of UNC-TV, told the newspaper it was "a programing decision" not to renew the contract.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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