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ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies At 93

Deadline · August 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM

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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ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies At 93

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