Ep. 95 - Bill Rasmussen

The Tim McKernan Show

TMA STL | Hubbard Radio

Sports, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After being fired by the Whalers over Memorial Day weekend 40 years ago, Bill embarked upon a project that turned into sports media behemoth ESPN. He spoke with Tim in June 2018 to discuss ESPN's beginnings and his entrepreneurial spirit. Bill's experience being let go by both the Whalers and Gordie Howe The cable TV landscape in the late 70's & RCA launching a satellite Drive from Connecticut to New Jersey when SportsCenter was born The challenge of recruiting cable operators & lining up the investors What life experience did Bill draw upon when founding the network Very unconventional route that Bill took in becoming a sportscaster The process with vetting and hiring the original ESPN talent lineup Bill's epic meeting with a baseball legend at a charity softball game Please support our sponsors: The Home Loan Expert, Ryan Kelley James Carlton Agency (State Farm) Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Design Aire Heating & Cooling Follow us on Social Media: @TimMcKernanShow or Facebook.com/TheTimMcKernanShow Thanks to Story of the Year for our theme. Please rate, review, and subscribe so more people discover the pod. Feedback is welcome: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yes, yes, welcome into another edition of the Tim
0:15.9	McKernan show here on the Inside STL Podcast network from the
0:19.6	Home Loan Expert.com Studios. I am your host, Tim McKernan, and this week we go into
0:26.7	the entrepreneurial world. And I want to do more of these, you know, maybe not like every
0:31.8	week or anything like that that but I love these stories
0:35.1	because entrepreneurs always have a backstory for how it went from an idea to usually a huge success story and and that's who we
0:49.8	will be having on the program I'm looking forward to talking with Ryan Kelly, our sponsor, the
0:54.0	Home Loan Expert.com studios. His story is incredible. That's a local story. The story we have today
0:58.9	is a global story and that story is Bill Rasmussen the gentleman who founded, started and still
1:08.8	into this day observant for at the very least on E-S-P-N and how it all came to pass is an incredible
1:19.4	story in what is used as cliche but in this case I think many would agree typifies the
1:26.0	American dream it was the byproduct of him getting fired and it was a gamble, but he saw something that others weren't doing and was able to execute it.
1:40.0	And what took place in order to get it there is something that enamored me as I heard
1:45.0	him tell his story.
1:46.7	So Bill Rasmussen, the founder of ESPN, our guest today on the Tim McKernan Show from the Home Loan Expert.
1:53.7	dot-com studios.
1:55.2	Ryan Kelly, as I mentioned, I can't wait to have him in.
1:58.1	And I'm sure some of you are going, okay, Ryan Kelly, I see him on TV,
2:01.0	I don't really, you know, know I mean you're gonna have an
2:04.0	advertiser on you're just having a mom because he advertisers and I get that I
2:07.1	think if I were in your position I would think the exact same thing honestly so I
2:11.8	have no problem with that.
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