Frank Batten Sr. (1927-2009) created the Weather Channel in 1982, despite mocking by colleagues in the media that around-the-clock weather broadcasts would be a
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Batten, a retired chairman and CEO of the private media company that owns The Weather Channel, tells the story of a cable network that succeeded despite the dir