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 ...

Source: [Deadline](https://deadline.com/2026/08/espn-founder-bill-rasmussen-dead-1237044298/)

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