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The Beginning
In mid-1978, faced with unemployment after being fired from his job as Communications Director for the New England Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes), Bill Rasmussen founded ESPN. Entrepreneurial daring, irrepressible enthusiasm and a dash of good luck gave America its first 24-hour sports network in 1979. Once unleashed upon sports fans, ESPN’s impact forever changed the way we watch television.
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ESPN Coverages
My time was brief, but my message full of promise for an industry wondering what this “satellite age” held in store for their business. Talking fast about 30 minute sports-only news shows, NCAA basketball, football, the College World Series, thousand of hours of live programming from venues all over the country and then unveiling the model production truck caught the attention of the now bleary-eyed conventioneers. -
ESPN's Publishes
March of 1980 brought the first hints of where ESPN was headed. Every game of the NCAA’s March Madness not televised by NBC was on ESPN. Round the clock basketball - live and even a few taped repeats - caught the attention of the media and sports fans and the word spread. Fans asked cable operators about this new service that “had all that basketball,” and cable operators signed on and more fans found sports heaven.
A hint of what was to come: 1979-1982: ESPN televised a few NHL and NBA games. -
ESPN Update 2528
In 1983, the United States Football League (USFL) made its debut on ESPN and ABC. The league – which lasted for three seasons – enjoyed ephemeral success, some portion of which was a byproduct of the exposure afforded through ESPN coverage. On July 15, 1985, ESPN started airing the "ESPN Sports Update" (later known as "28/58"), a condensed rundown of scores and news that aired at 28 and 58 minutes past the hour at times when SportsCenter was not airing.[20] The airtimes of these updates were mo -
ESPN NBA Coversge
The NBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games on the ESPN family of networks. The ESPN cable network first televised NBA games from 1983 to 1984, and has been airing games currently since the 2002–03 NBA season. ESPN2 began airing a limited schedule of NBA games in 2002. ESPN on ABC began televising NBA games in 2006 (ABC Sports aired NBA games under the title of the NBA on ABC from 2002 to 2006). On October 6, 2014, ESPN and the NBA renewed their agre -
ESPN College Gameday
College GameDay is an ESPN entertainment show previewing college football games. It first aired in 1987 with Tim Brando as host and Lee Corso and Beano Cook as commentators. -
Sports Anchormen
In 2004, The Herd with Colin Cowherd was formed and shorty after he was named "ESPN Radio Personality Of The Year". In the next few years the show was anchored at 9:30-11 for 10 years, but this year in August, ESPN released him and the show because of racial slures. -
ESPY'S Beginings
From their inception to 2004, ESPY Award winners were chosen only through voting by fans. Since 2004, sportswriters, broadcasters, sports executives, and sportspersons, collectively experts; or ESPN personalities also vote. Award winners have been selected thereafter exclusively through online fan balloting conducted from amongst candidates selected by the ESPY Select Nominating Committee. -
ESPN Sportsciencs
Sport Science is an ongoing television series that explores the science and engineering underlying athletic endeavors. Originally filmed as a 12-part series that was broadcast on FSN from September 9, 2007, to April 20, 2008 (Series 1), the second series (2009) also appeared on FSN. Series 3 (2010) was picked up by ESPN. ESPN, who has changed the name of the series to SportScience, has yet to air new episodes. Instead, the network has chosen to air various SportScience vignettes during programs -
Sportsnation
SportsNation is a sports-related television program that airs on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNews. The series is based on SportsNation, the fan forum and poll section of ESPN.com. The show is typically 60% material generated or suggested by fans,[1] including videos from the internet, athlete Tweets, and online polling.[2] The show had aired in occasional segments on ESPN and ESPN2 before becoming a fixture of ESPN2's weekday afternoon block in September 2011. As of April 2014, the SportsNation hosts ar
