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ESPN Biography
“If you’re a fan, if you’re a fan, what you will see in the next few minutes, hours, and days to follow may convince you that you’ve gone to sports heaven,” were the first words ever said on ESPN and they were said by George Grande on September 7th, 1979 when ESPN went live at 7 p.m. (Smith 11). Entertainment Sports Programming Network or more commonly known as ESPN is a pioneer among basic cable television networks because it was the first network to devote its entire programming to sports and it was created by a man name Bill Rasmussen in a small Connecticut town called Bristol. Outside ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol there is a simple small sign that reads “Welcome to ESPN” the sign is an important part of ESPN’s message
Before there was an Internet, the only place sports fanatics could go to get all their sports needs fulfilled was ESPN. Even after the arrival of the Internet, ESPN remains the first access point for most sports fanatics because of the establishment of their brand. ESPN was one of the very first networks to distribute its content via satellite and this help start a revolution in the 1970s in our culture which brought an end to traditional broadcasting and started the satellite revolution. ESPN also helped make football even bigger in our culture; ESPN gained partial rights to the NFL in 1987 and started airing ESPN Sunday Night Football. ESPN was even able to help revolutionized the NFL; ESPN was able to take the draft, the pregame and highlight shows, and other NFL programming to a new
ESPN used a satellite transponder instead of traditional broadcasting because a satellite transponder was cheaper and this started the satellite revolution. ESPN started their company in Bristol, Connecticut which was a small town so there wasn’t anything for the workers of ESPN to do except work. Other networks were in L.A and New York; they could work in the day and party hard at night, not ESPN they stayed hard at work throughout out the night with no distractions. ESPN started the revolution of making cable companies pay to carry its broadcast. ESPN was also so successful because most of the workers were sport fanatics themselves and they understood what people who followed sports wanted. So what we have today is the largest and most profitable sports network in the universe and it all started from an ex-hockey announcer who was fired and wanted to broadcast more local sports in Connecticut and it grew into the empire known today as