The Early Days of ESPN: 300 Daydreams and Nightmares. Fox 9781493079575 New**
The tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that \u201Call-sports television will never work\u201D are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN\u2019s founding executive producer, Peter Fox was privy to some spectacular professional efforts by a cadre of Connecticut locals who made the dream real. The first 300 days of the fledgling network were filled with mayhem, on-air gaffes, and the slowest instant replay in television. What started as a humble idea in the late spring of 1978 to capitalize on the brand-new mania for UConn men\u2019s basketball soon morphed into ESPN and a plan to begin airing a series of \u201Ctest broadcasts\u201D in the fall. This is the story of the early days at ESPN, told by one of its founders, and how a conversation over a couple of
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The tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that \u201Call-sports television will never work\u201D are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN\u2019s founding executive producer, Peter Fox was privy to some spectacular professional efforts by a cadre of Connecticut locals who made the dream real. The first 300 days of the fledgling network were filled with mayhem, on-air gaffes, and the slowest instant replay in television. What started as a humble idea in the late spring of 1978 to capitalize on the brand-new mania for UConn men\u2019s basketball soon morphed into ESPN and a plan to begin airing a series of \u201Ctest broadcasts\u201D in the fall. This is the story of the early days at ESPN, told by one of its founders, and how a conversation over a couple of
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The tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that \u201Call-sports television will never work\u201D are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN\u2019s founding executive producer, Peter Fox was privy to some spectacular professional efforts by a cadre of Connecticut locals who made the dream real. The first 300 days of the fledgling network were filled with mayhem, on-air gaffes, and the slowest instant replay in television. What started as a humble idea in the late spring of 1978 to capitalize on the brand-new mania for UConn men\u2019s basketball soon morphed into ESPN and a plan to begin airing a series of \u201Ctest broadcasts\u201D in the fall. This is the story of the early days at ESPN, told by one of its founders, and how a conversation over a couple of
The Early Days of ESPN
300 Daydreams and Nightmares
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Language | english |
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