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.
Although independent businesses were selling technology products decades earlier, the modern channel began with the personal computer revolution in the early 1980's. In 2000, CRN published this timeline of some of the important events in the early years of the channel. In Back To The Future Channel, Robert Faletra reflects on the status of the channel now: We are seeing a bit of back to the future in channel makeup right now.