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Sophisticated equipment to this earth transmitting system -- >> this guy, bill rasmussen, who had been fired from his job and just trying to figure out a way to deliver local cable sports. then when they found out about the satellite they said, so can we cover the whole state? and the guy looked and he said, no, you don't understand. >> for another 25 cents or whatever you can send this all over the country. they went, oh, gee. why would anyone want to do that? they didn't quite know what they had. >> and he wound up revolutionizing television sports. >> welcome everyone to the espn "sportscen...

Earth transmitting station. >> this guy, bill rasmussen, who had been fired from his job trying to figure out a way to deliver local cable sports. then when they found out about the satellite they said, so can we cover the whole state? and the guy looked and he said, no, you don't understand. >> for another 25 cents or whatever you can send this all over the country. they went, oh, gee. why would anyone want to do that? they didn't quite know what they had. >> and he wound up revolutionizing television sports. >> welcome everyone to espn "sportscenter." from this very desk in the coming weeks ...

The sporting activity, around the country and around the world as well. >> they didn't have the money to go out and buy baseball games or nfl games. what they did do was take all the leftovers out there. >> i'm joe boyle and i'll be handling the play by play for tonight's game between the badgers and the blue demons. >> it gave birth to arguably the greatest media success story of all-time. >> at its best, cable television could provide a refreshing relief from the trend toward bigness, toward centralization. at its worst cable tv could invade our privacy, tranquilize the miracle be managed? â...

>> in the mid 70s there were three giants, cbs, abc, nbc and in connecticut somebody got ahold of a transponder. >> the picture you're watching now has been taken by a camera sent to this earth transmitting station. >> this guy who had been fired from his job just trying to figure out a way to deliver local cable sports. then they said so can we cover the whole state? and the guy said you don't understand. >> for another 25 cents or whatever, you could send this all over the country and they went, oh, why would anyone want to do that? they didn't quite know what they had. >> and he wound up re...

Earth transmitting station. >> this guy, bill rasmussen, who had been fired from his job trying to figure out a way to deliver local cable sports. then when they found out about the satellite they said, so can we cover the whole state? and the guy looked and he said, no, you don't understand. >> for another 25 cents or whatever you can send this all over the country. they went, oh, gee. why would anyone want to do that? they didn't quite know what they had. >> and he wound up revolutionizing television sports. >> welcome everyone to espn "sportscenter." from this very desk in the coming weeks ...