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Frank Batten. Frank Batten (February 11, 1927 – September 10, 2009 [3]) was an American billionaire businessman, and co-founder of the first nationwide, 24-hour cable weather channel, The Weather Channel. [4][5] His media company, Landmark Media Enterprises, once owned nine daily newspapers, more than 50 weekly newspapers, television stations ...
The Virginian-Pilot and its sister afternoon edition, the Ledger-Star (which ceased publication in 1995) were created by Samuel L. Slover as the result of several mergers of papers dating back to 1865. [10] The Virginian-Pilot covered the Wright brothers' early flights. [11] Slover's nephew Frank Batten Sr. became publisher at age 27 in 1954.
The Times-Dispatch has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk's The Virginian-Pilot. [5] In addition to the Richmond area (Petersburg, Chester, Hopewell, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the Times-Dispatch has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro.
They included papers which would eventually become today's Virginian-Pilot. Frank Batten, Slover's nephew, took over the company in 1955, and changed its name to Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Inc. in 1957 (reflecting the merger of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star), then to Landmark Communications in 1967. [3]
The half-hour black and white pilot titled The Virginian aired in 1958 as part of the anthology series Decision, which in other weeks aired pilots for six other series.. In the pilot, unlike in the later series, the Virginian had a noticeable Southern accent and wore a belt buckle marked "CSA", indicating service in the Confederate States Army. [3]
Louis Isaac Jaffe (February 22, 1888 – March 12, 1950) [1] was a Lithuanian-American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and former director of the American Red Cross News Service, in Paris, for the European bureau. He served for over three decades, and serving as the editorial page editor of the newspaper, Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia ...
The Daily Press Inc. is a daily morning newspaper published in Newport News, Virginia, which covers the lower and middle Peninsula of Tidewater Virginia. It was established in 1896 and bought by Tribune Company in 1986. Current owner Tribune Publishing spun off from the company in 2014. In 2016, The Daily Press has a daily average readership of ...
Inside Business. Inside Business is a weekly newspaper serving Norfolk, Virginia and the Hampton Roads area. Its articles focus on the regional business community. Inside Business was formerly known as The Hampton Roads Business Journal, and is published by Pilot Targeted Media, a division of The Virginian-Pilot.