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Jim Heavner began running Chapel Hill's WCHL radio in 1961 and became its majority owner in the 1970s. Through the Village Companies he made the station the flagship of a sports broadcasting network and added a cable TV company, an advertising circular and a university phone book publisher.
Source: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Jim Heavner
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Jim Heavner recounts growing up in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, his student days at UNC and how the Village Companies holding company grew in Chapel Hill. Interviewed by Doug Eyre in 2002; oral history cassette in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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Sports broadcaster Woody Durham speaks at a roast in his honor on 25 January 1986, probably in Chapel Hill. Seated beside him is Jim Heavner, at the time head of The Village Company in Chapel Hill. Hugh Morton photograph.
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