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., 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.

Batten was 19 when she married Frank Batten, who would go on to become chairman and CEO of Landmark Communications Inc. and co-founder of The Weather Channel. Together, they agreed that he would focus ...