**CORRECTS SPELLING OF BATTEN IN OBJECT NAME** FILE - In a May 1, 1987 file photo, Associated Press President and General Manager Louis D. Boccardi, right, attends an Associated Press dinner at Tavern on the Green for retiring Associated Press Board Chairman Frank Batten of the Norfolk, Va. Ledger Star, center. Also in attendance is William Keating of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Enquirer, left. Batten, who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers and cable television and created The Weather Channel, has died. Landmark vice chairman Richard F. Barry III says Batten died early Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 in Norfolk, Va., after a prolonged illness. He was 82. (AP Photo/G. Paul Burnett, File)