ESPN Co-Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies at 93
Bill Rasmussen, the visionary co-founder of the sports broadcasting giant ESPN, has passed away at the age of 93. Rasmussen was instrumental in establishing the groundbreaking 24-hour sports network.
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Bill Rasmussen, ESPN’s Founder, Dies at 93
Bill Rasmussen, a former local-news sports director who parlayed an interest in the nascent business of satellite television into the launch of the sports-media giant known as ESPN, has died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. The entrepreneur and founder was 93 years old. Rasmussen in 1978 was idling in traffic on Connecticut’s Interstate 84 […]
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The former New England Whalers exec and his son came up with the idea for an all-sports network in 1978 while stuck in traffic.
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Bill Rasmussen, a sports visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Shrugging off skeptics, the pioneering Rasmussen – after being fired as communications director of the New England Whalers — acquired space […]
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