ESPN App Is Raising Prices You Should Know
As is the former ESPN+.
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ESPN Will Test ‘Alumni Cast’ for MLB Little League Classic
ESPN has tapped Pixar and Marvel characters in sundry bids to create new ways for viewers to watch their favorite games. Now the sports-media giant will investigate the use of a different kind of character. While the ninth annual MLB Little League Classic airs August 23 on ESPN, ESPN2 will feature an “alumni alt-cast” of […]
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Executives | News | Sports
Bob Iger Buys L.A. Lakers In Record-Setting, $12.5B Post-Disney Move
UPDATED with Magic Johnson comments: Fulfilling a long-held dream, Bob Iger has bought himself a big-city major sports franchise. The ex-Disney CEO and Thrive Capital boss Josh Kushner have scored the Los Angeles Lakers at a valuation of $12.5 billion, Deadline has confirmed. That’s the highest valuation for a sports team in U.S. history, topping […]
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Technical Foul: Buss Family Dispute Now Leaves Lakers Stake Sale To Bob Iger & Josh Kushner In Purgatory
UPDATE: So, maybe Bob Iger and Josh Kushner don’t own 83% of the Los Angeles Lakers after all, or do they? It’s crickets from the Thrive camp today as reps for Jeanie Buss contradicted an earlier assertion from the remaining offspring of Dr. Jerry Buss that it is “time to use this opportunity to move […]
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News | Obituaries | Sports
Bill Rasmussen Dies: ESPN Co-Founder Was 93
Bill Rasmussen, a visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of the effects of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Rasmussen revealed in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a degenerative disease, in 2014. Shrugging off skeptics, […]
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Bill Rasmussen, Co-Founder of ESPN, Dies at 93
The former New England Whalers exec and his son came up with the idea for an all-sports network in 1978 while stuck in traffic.
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Bill Rasmussen Founded ESPN and Left a Year Later. It Was Long Enough to Change TV Forever
He was Ted Turner a year before Ted Turner.
