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Bill Rasmussen, ESPN’s Founder, Dies at 93

Variety ·
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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