| 词条 | Bill Rasmussen |
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| name = Bill Rasmussen | birth_name = William F. Rasmussen | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois | known_for = Founder and First President of ESPN. | education = Depauw University(BA) Rutgers University(MBA) }} William F. Rasmussen, also known as Bill Rasmussen (born 1932)[1] is a former Sports Director,[2] and one of the founders of ESPN, along with Scott Rasmussen and Ed Egan.[3] Rasmussen served as the first president and CEO of ESPN. ESPN was founded on July 14, 1978, and was launched on September 7, 1979. Early lifeBill Rasmussen was born in Chicago, Illinois where he attended Gage Park High School. He received a scholarship to attend DePauw University in Indiana, where he met his future wife Mickey. After college, he was a supply officer in the US Air Force. He played baseball (as third baseman) with the hopes of going pro. Parts he procured for the Air Force were used in F-86 and F-89 fighter jets, as well as on Mercury space capsules. He then attended Rutgers University to get his MBA.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} His son Scott was born in 1956, the year he was discharged from the military.[4] Early careerRasmussen's career in the media began with WTTT in Amherst, MA, in 1963. In 1965, he moved to WHYN-TV and then to WWLP-TV, both in Springfield, MA, where he spent eight years as Sports Director and two years as News Director. In 1974 he left Springfield to join hockey's New England Whalers as Communications Director. At the conclusion of the 1977-78 World Hockey Association season, Rasmussen was fired by the Whalers. Thus began the pursuit of ESPN, incorporating the fledgling network on July 14, 1978.[5] ESPNESPN, originally called Entertainment and Sports Programming, was incorporated on July 14, 1978. It began broadcasting fourteen months later, at 7 p.m. on September 7, 1979.[6] ESPN wound up being headquartered in Bristol, Connecticut. Rasmussen paid $18,000 for the first acre of ESPN's campus.[7] Moving OnGetty Oil purchased 85% of ESPN and left 15% of the enterprise to be split.[8] By July 18, 1979, before launch, the investors decided to remove Rasmussen from power.[6] His salary and responsibilities were cut.[9][10] Just prior to the launch of ESPN, according to the book Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN [12] Stuart Evey claimed "I made Bill Chairman, but in no way did I want to give him any responsibility!"[11] "Having Bill Rasmussen play a significant role was just not part of the deal."[12] Rasmussen, the one who had the idea for ESPN, stepped back from day-to-day business, having less contact with ESPN until mid 1999.[7] Rasmussen and ESPN "made amends" in 1999 when then-president George Bodenheimer reached out to the founder for the network's 20th anniversary.[7][12] On September 30, 1980, ESPN officials announced that Bill Rasmussen was leaving the company by agreement.[11] The SaleThe New York Times reported in 1984,[13] ABC purchased controlling interest in ESPN by buying out Getty Oil's position. At the time of the Getty Oil buy out, ABC in turn bought out the Rasmussen Families 15% for $6,000,000.[6] Rasmussen had to split the $6,000,000 with numerous other investors and funders such as his brother Don Rasmussen, with Bill Rasmussen ending up with an estimated $1.2 million[6] and a little over $740,000 after taxes.[6] George Bodenheimer, then president of ESPN, recognized Rasmussen in October 2005 and dedicated a plaque and flag pole in Rasmussen's honor.[10]Post ESPNFamily BusinessThe all sports radio network Enterprise Radio Network was founded in January 1981 by Scott Rasmussen, the son of Bill Rasmussen, and was shuttered by September 1981. The network broadcast sports reports twice an hour and did live phone in sports talk from 6 pm to 8 am Eastern Time seven days a week. The project failed, with employees not getting paid all wages they were due. Bill Rasmussen was sued by the labor department along with Scott for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.[14]{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} Other BusinessRasmussen became involved in plans to build a 12,000-seat golf stadium in Naples, Florida.[15] The project was rife with corruption, with the Naples Daily News describing it as the "biggest public corruption scandal in local history".[16] Rasmussen became a subject of the criminal investigations surrounding the project and pled guilty to two misdemeanor cases of fraud in a plea deal that reduced the charges against him in exchange for his cooperation in the corruption case against the public officials.[17][18] Honors and awards
References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/33249/|title=ESPN Founder & 1954 Graduate Bill Rasmussen Returns to DePauw for Ubben Lecture, Nov. 8, During Monon Bell Week|publisher=|accessdate=27 March 2018}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rasmussen, Bill}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/sports/2009/10/post_46.html|title=Bill Rasmussen went from losing a job to creating ESPN|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/scott_rasmussen.html|title=The Arena: - Scott Rasmussen Bio|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tcFXL_CP7-IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false ESPN: The Uncensored History, by Michael Freeman] 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.espnfounder.com/about_bill.htm|title=ESPN Founder - About Bill Rasmussen|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 6. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkqgYTFsHvIC&pg=PT65|title=ESPN Creating an Empire: The No-Holds-Barred Story of Power, Ego, Money, and Vision That Transformed a Culture|last=Evey|first=Stuart|date=1 September 2004|publisher=Triumph Books|year=|isbn=978-1-62368-141-8|location=|pages=65–66}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://thebiglead.com/2016/05/12/legends-suite-with-a-legend-attending-yankees-red-sox-with-espns-founding-father-bill-rasmussen/|title=Legends Suite With a Legend: Attending Yankees-Red Sox With ESPN's Founding Father Bill Rasmussen|last=Glasspiegel|first=Ryan|date=12 May 2016|website=The Big Lead|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://deadspin.com/artifact-the-quiet-founder-of-espns-10-million-stoc-1566133061|title=Artifact: The "Quiet Founder" Of ESPN's $10 Million Stock Certificate|first=Travis|last=Vogan|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 9. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tcFXL_CP7-IC&pg=PA65|title=ESPN: The Uncensored History|last=Freeman|first=Michael|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2001|isbn=978-0-87833-270-0|location=|pages=65–}} 10. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aR2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|title=Connecticut Miscellany: ESPN, The Age of the Reptiles, CowParade & More|last=Faude|first=Wilson H.|date=18 June 2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|year=|isbn=978-1-61423-946-8|location=|pages=6–}} 11. ^1 2 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SkYN5eMreOUC&pg=PT65|title=Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN|last=Miller|first=James Andrew|last2=Shales|first2=Tom|date=24 May 2011|publisher=Little, Brown|year=|isbn=978-0-316-12576-5|location=|pages=15–65}} 12. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2011/04/04/People-and-Pop-Culture/Rasmussen.aspx|title=Champions: Bill Rasmussen, ESPN creator|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/01/business/abc-to-acquire-espn-as-texaco-sells-its-72.html|title=ABC to Acquire ESPN as Texaco Sells Its 72%|last=Kleinfield|first=N. R.|date=1984-05-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-05|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 14. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jLlRE0DwtxUC&pg=PA84|title=JOCK AROUND THE CLOCK: The story of history's first all-sports radio network|last=Birchard|first=John|date=29 November 2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|year=|isbn=978-1-4568-2261-3|location=|pages=9–84}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/110401/news_pf/State/Collier_County_growth.shtml|title=State: Collier County growth bulged with corruption|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://archive.naplesnews.com/special/lighthouse/lighthouse-project---history-stadium-naples-was-biggest-public-corruption-scandal-in-local-history-e-342577612.html|title=Lighthouse Project - History: Stadium Naples was biggest public corruption scandal in local history|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/062103/D7RQ71BG1.html|title=Jacksonville.com: Former commissioner gets three years probation 6/21/03|publisher=|accessdate=5 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105223937/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/062103/D7RQ71BG1.html#|archive-date=2016-11-05|dead-url=yes|df=}} 18. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/moresports/news/2002/0828/1423840.html |title=Rasmussen pleads guilty to fraud charges |date=August 28, 2002 |newspaper=AP |publisher=ESPN}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cynopsis.com/story/rasmussen-talks-media-critics-and-the-crisis-that-could-have-derailed-espn/|title=Rasmussen talks media, critics and the crisis that could have derailed ESPN|last=|first=|date=|website=Cynopsis Media|publisher=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 8 : Presidents of ESPN|People from Chicago|American people of Danish descent|American television executives|DePauw University alumni|Rutgers University alumni|Living people|1932 births |
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