[1] He served as interim chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the University of Arizona College of Law carries his name.
Soon after, the station changed its calls to KORK-TV, matching its radio sister, and moved its license and studios to Las Vegas.
[citation needed] From 1971 onward, a group of local residents led by Rogers made an effort to take control of KORK.
The most notable of these preemptions was the 1978 World Series, angering both NBC and several Las Vegas area viewers, some of whom complained to the Federal Communications Commission.
Rogers owned 98% of the stock of Sunbelt Communications Company (now Intermountain West Communications Company), which owned and operated the NBC affiliate television stations in Las Vegas, Reno and Elko, Nevada; Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California; Helena, Montana; Pocatello-Idaho Falls, Idaho; Casper, Wyoming; and the Fox affiliate in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Rogers was appointed by the Board of Regents to serve as the Interim Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education on May 7, 2004.
An active supporter of education, he and his wife, Beverly, made substantial financial contributions to various colleges and universities.
Active in all the communities in which Sunbelt has television stations, Rogers served as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the University of Nevada, Engineering College in Reno, Nevada (to which he gave or pledged $750,000); was a member of the Dean's Council of the UNLV College of Law in Las Vegas[8] (to which he gave or pledged $28,500,000); and was a member and President-Elect of the Idaho State University Foundation in Pocatello, Idaho [9] (to which he gave or pledged $20 million).