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Bill Rasmussen, who founded ESPN as the first 24/7 all-sports network, dies at 93
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Set us as preferred Bill Rasmussen, the founder of the world’s first 24-hour all-sports cable network ESPN, has died.He was 93.The sports media company announced his death in a press release on Tuesday and said the cause was from the effects of Parkinson’s disease.
The entrepreneur was first diagnosed with the movement disorder in 2014.“Bill was a remarkable man – a visionary and an innovator who conceived the idea of a network entirely devoted to sports,” said ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro in a statement.“Quite simply, none of us would be here today if it wasn’t for Bill’s passion and all the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit he put into building ESPN in the late 1970s.”William F.
Rasmussen was born October 15, 1932, in Chicago and raised in nearby Columbus Manor, Illinois.As a child, he had a knack for sports and was considered an avid athlete.
He attended DePauw University in Indiana and received his bachelor’s degree in economics.After he graduated, he served in the United States Air Force and later earned an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey.He built an entrepreneurial venture in the advertising business and decided to pivot to a career in media in 1962 with a radio position in Massachusetts.
A few years later, he moved to WWLP-TV, a broadcast news channel, where he worked for eight years as sports director and two years as news director.After leaving the station, he worked as the communications director for the New England Whalers but was later fired from the role in 1978.Rasmussen and his son Scott had been chasing the new business of satellite television through the summer of 1978 and had secured space on an RCA transponder — Rasmussen financed the deposit on a credit card, using a $9,000 advance, by his own account.
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