Three SEC finalists for National Freshman of the Year. 1  Three student-athletes from the SEC are among the 25 initial finalists for the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award. 2  Martin Jarmond has been hired by Boston College and will become the youngest Power 5 athletic director in the nation.
The Weather Channel launched on May 2, 1982. Programming began with an introduction to the channel by Batten and Coleman, which led into an inauguration ceremony that launched the channel's first official broadcast at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time that evening, anchored by meteorologists Bruce Edwards and AndrÃ© Bernier.
The Weather Channel. For the Australian Weather Channel that formerly went by the same name as the U.S. channel, see Sky News Weather Channel. For the former parent company of the Weather Channel now owned by IBM, see The Weather Company.