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If you pride yourself on knowing everything there is to know about ESPN, you'll need to own this book to cover all the bases. Do you know about the $9,000 credit card advance, the first advertiser on ESPN, or the cost of ESPN's first satellite transponder? Or why ESPN is based in Bristol, Connecticut? All that and more about the early days is covered by Bill Rasmussen in "Sports Junkies Rejoice! The Birth of ESPN."
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From the Author
Pursuing the American Dream with tenacity, entrepreneurial daring and fierce determination, using the tools of the day, we launched ESPN. Here's to you sports junkies . . . Rejoice!
From the Inside Flap
"Only Bill Rasmussen can take you back, back, back, back to the beginning of the greatest success story in the history of sports television. His ideas, his enthusiasm, his fierce determination and belief in success changed the way we all watch television and televised sports today."
Chris Berman, ESPN
"You were a man ahead of your time! A Genius - God Bless!"
Dick Vitale, ESPN
"Bill Rasmussen dramatically altered and elevated the world of sports. What he did changed the landscape of TV sports."
Sports Illustrated - Forty for the Ages
Fortieth Anniversary - 1994
"The Father of Cable Sports"
USA Today, 1994
"What we're creating here is a network for sports junkies. This is not a network for the soft-core sports fans who like to watch the NFL and then switch to the news."
Scott Rasmussen
Co-founder, ESPN
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- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1451569572
- ISBN 13 9781451569575
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- Number of pages262
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