{"id":1029608,"date":"2026-08-19T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029608"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:11:21","slug":"bill-rasmussen-espn-founder-dies-at-93-after-parkinsons-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/bill-rasmussen-espn-founder-dies-at-93-after-parkinsons-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Rasmussen, ESPN founder, dies at 93 after Parkinson\u2019s battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Rasmussen, the visionary who helped turn the idea of a dedicated sports television channel into ESPN, has died at the age of 93 after a battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease. <\/p>\n<p>ESPN announced Rasmussen\u2019s death on its official Instagram account, remembering him as the person whose ambitious idea for a 24-hour sports network transformed the way fans consume sports. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN founder Bill Rasmussen, whose out-of-the-box idea of a 24-hour cable sports network forever changed the landscape of sports media, died today at the age of 93,\u201d ESPN said in a tribute. \u201cA game-changer for the ages. Thank you for everything, Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Rasmussen, the visionary who helped turn the idea of a dedicated sports television channel into ESPN, has died at the age of 93 after a battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease. ESPN announced Rasmussen\u2019s death on its official Instagram account, remembering him as the person whose ambitious idea for a 24-hour sports network transformed the way fans consume sports. \u201cESPN founder Bill Rasmussen, whose out-of-the-box idea of a 24-hour cable sports network forever changed the landscape of sports media, died today at the age of 93,\u201d ESPN said in a tribute. \u201cA game-changer for the ages. Thank you for everything, Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029630,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029608\/revisions\/1029630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}