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 has some new competition, and itâs coming from Minnesota. A new national weather channel called âThe Weather Castâ launches at midnight on DISH Network. The new channel will replace The Weather Channel for DISH Networkâs roughly 14 million subscribers. The Weather Cast originates from the studios of Weather Nation in Excelsior, Minnesota in the west metro. Weather Nation is owned by Paul Douglas, former Chief Meteorologist with WCCO-TV and KARE11 in the Twin Cities.