ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies At 93
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 …
ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93
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