NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Frank Batten Sr., who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers and cable television and created The Weather Channel, died Thursday. He was 82. Batten, the retired ...
Frank Batten Sr., who founded the Weather Channel and donated tens of millions of dollars to educational institutions, died Thursday in Norfolk, Va., at age 82, The Washington Post reports. Mr. Batten ...
Frank Batten Sr., 82, a Virginia publishing magnate and philanthropist who launched the Weather Channel, which improbably found huge cable television audiences among skywatchers and travelers, died ...