NEWS

UNC campus, local community invited to participate in "Good Morning America" broadcast Monday

ABC's "Good Morning America" will broadcast its entire show from the Carolina campus Monday (April 29) from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The producers are hoping for plenty of participation in the live broadcast from Polk Place, so please plan to join fellow Tar Heels there by 6:45 a.m. Polk Place is the quadrangle between South Building and Wilson Library. Anchors Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer and weather anchor Tony Perkins will interact with the audience throughout the broadcast.

Carolina students, faculty and staff will make up the majority of the live audience, and the Chapel Hill community also is welcome to come.

Parking Information

Because most campus parking lots are reserved for employees and students on weekdays beginning at 7:30 a.m., the Department of Public Safety suggests that anyone planning to drive to the broadcast should park in

• the Highway 54 visitors pay parking lot off Raleigh Road,
• the Town of Chapel Hill municipal pay lots or
• the Manning (S11) lot off Skipper Bowles Drive by the Dean E. Smith Center.

Parking in the Manning lot will be free and will not be enforced until 10 a.m.  The free campus U-bus and RU-bus service the Manning lot beginning at 7:05 a.m.