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Prolific philanthropist, education advocate dies

By Martin Griffith
Published June 16, 2014 3:35am ET
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Prolific philanthropist, education advocate dies
FILE - In an Aug. 24, 2005 photo then University of Nevada Chancellor Jim Rogers announces in Las Vegas that he will continue at the helm of the university system. Rogers, a philanthropist and education advocate, died Saturday evening June 14, 2014, at his Las Vegas home after a bout with cancer. He was 75. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, Sam Morris, file) | SAM MORRIS

Jim Rogers, a philanthropist and education advocate who served as chancellor of Nevada’s higher education system from 2005 to 2009 without pay, died Saturday evening at his Las Vegas home after a bout with cancer. He was 75.

Rogers also was the owner of KSNV-TV, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, and oversaw the growth of Sunbelt Communications into 14 TV stations in five Western states. Sunbelt now is known as Intermountain West Communications Co.

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