VIRGINIA BEACH – Frank Batten, 82, died Sept. 10, 2009, at Harbors Edge Retirement Community after a long illness. He was born in Norfolk on Feb. 11, 1927, to Frank and Dorothy Martin Batten. He ...

Frank Batten Sr., the nephew of Landmark's founder, Samuel L. Slover, acquired dozens of small- and medium-size newspapers over the years. His son values newspapers, too, but not at his father's level ...

Frank Batten VIRGINIA BEACH – Frank Batten, 82, died Sept. 10, 2009, at Harbors Edge Retirement Community after a long illness. He was born in Norfolk on Feb. 11, 1927, to Frank and Dorothy Martin ...

Frank Batten Sr., who turned a small newspaper company into one of the nation's largest privately held media empires, started as an errand boy and became one of the nation's 400 richest people.

At 19 years old, Batten married Frank Batten, who later became chairman and CEO of Landmark Communications and co-founder of The Weather Channel, which he sold to NBCUniversal and other partners in ...

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 ...

Publisher, broadcaster and philanthropist Frank Batten Sr. has died at age 82. He was the founder of Landmark Communications, which still owns newspapers and two TV stations, after selling The Weather ...

Any history of south Hampton Roads in the second half of the 20th century surely would rank Frank Batten among an elite group of first citizens. So, author and former Landmark Communications ...