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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Virginia Historical Reporter
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Virginia Historical Reporter: Conducted by the Executive Committee of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical Society
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Vol. 1 contains 3 parts, each part having separate title-page and paging.
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Vol. 1 contains 3 parts, each part having separate title-page and paging.
Frank Batten
Author: Connie Sage
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393155X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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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 as exciting as watching paint dry. The network, and later its companion website, Weather.com, became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. Yet few have heard of Batten, a media pioneer whose Virginia newspaper was the only major daily to back school integration. At a time when American corporate greed was making headlines, without fanfare and limelight Batten built a media empire centered on honesty, integrity, and ethics. Starting out in his uncle's newspaper business in Norfolk, Virginia, as a reporter and advertising salesman, he assumed leadership of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star at the age of twenty-seven and grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse. He championed racial equality, a position not often taken in Virginia during the 1950s. His flagship newspaper, the Pilot, was the only daily paper in Virginia to back court-ordered school desegregation. He created two billion-dollar businesses and gave away more than $400 million to charity, nearly all of it to education. As chairman of the Associated Press from 1982 to 1987, he helped guide the news agency back on a sound financial footing. Batten also faced a tremendous personal challenge that would have sidelined many: he lost his vocal cords to cancer two years before starting the Weather Channel. This is the untold story of a man whose name few recognize, yet who helped change the face of the media in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393155X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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 as exciting as watching paint dry. The network, and later its companion website, Weather.com, became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. Yet few have heard of Batten, a media pioneer whose Virginia newspaper was the only major daily to back school integration. At a time when American corporate greed was making headlines, without fanfare and limelight Batten built a media empire centered on honesty, integrity, and ethics. Starting out in his uncle's newspaper business in Norfolk, Virginia, as a reporter and advertising salesman, he assumed leadership of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star at the age of twenty-seven and grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse. He championed racial equality, a position not often taken in Virginia during the 1950s. His flagship newspaper, the Pilot, was the only daily paper in Virginia to back court-ordered school desegregation. He created two billion-dollar businesses and gave away more than $400 million to charity, nearly all of it to education. As chairman of the Associated Press from 1982 to 1987, he helped guide the news agency back on a sound financial footing. Batten also faced a tremendous personal challenge that would have sidelined many: he lost his vocal cords to cancer two years before starting the Weather Channel. This is the untold story of a man whose name few recognize, yet who helped change the face of the media in the twentieth century.
Collections of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical Society
Publisher: Richmond, Virginia Historical Society.
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Category : VIRGINIA HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Publisher: Richmond, Virginia Historical Society.
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Category : VIRGINIA HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Collections of the Virginia Historical & Philosophical Society
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Organization of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Virginia
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
The Virginia Convention of 1829-30
Author: Hugh Blair Grigsby
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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