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Bill Rasmussen would not have launched ESPN if a Connecticut hockey team hadn't fired him and his son. In fact, when it was first aired in 1979, ESP (it picked up the "N" only later) was a distinctly local affair. Only later did it become a multi-billion dollar corporation and "the Worldwide Leader in Sports." James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales' Those Guys Have All The Fun accomplishes what many thought impossible: It provides the inside history of a small enterprise that became a media behemoth that changed the face of broadcasting and sports. To research this book, Miller and Shales (Live From New York) conducted more than 500 interviews with outspoken luminaries including Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others.
Overview
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now.
Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the greatest names in ESPN's history and an All-Star collection of some of the world's finest ...