{
  "id": 1760868,
  "title": "Bill Rasmussen Dies: ESPN Co-Founder Was 93",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/bill-rasmussen-dies-espn-co-founder-was-93",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-18T17:01:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/espn-founder-bill-rasmussen-dead-1237044298/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}