The Associated Press

Frank Batten Sr., who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers — including 20 publications in Kentucky — and cable television and created The Weather Channel, died Thursday. He was 82. Batten built Landmark Communications, the parent of Shelbyville, Ky.-based Landmark Community Newspapers Inc., into a major media company. And Batten’s son, Frank Batten Jr., now the chairman of Landmark, formerly served as publisher of The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown.

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