KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former WBIR General Manager Jim Hart died Thursday night at the age of 83.
Hart was a native East Tennessean and was deeply involved in the Knoxville community.
Hart’s father, John Hart, helped WBIR founder Jesse W. Birdwell get what would become Channel 10 up and running as an AM radio station in 1941. John Hart worked with the Nunn family and eventually became part of the original television ownership group…