Magic!❤

My cousin, Dan Hickens, turned me on to this guy in the late 80s. Thanks for that and for being a great role model to a struggling kid. You gave me direction and purpose

We first got cable in the spring of 81. Remember watching college baseball with the sound of aluminum bats every time the ball was hit. FF to the late 80's. Was offered to go shoot high school fencing in Martinsville, NJ for Scholastic Sports America. Chris Fowler was the host of that show at the time.

Thank you for this. It's the only video that I could find on yt for this issue. Still I couldn't start the battery with a booster. Will try directly from another car. KIA company has dropped the ball with this one, not giving us access to the trunk without power in the battery.

10:14 That’s the Gant Building (formerly called MSB) on the UConn Storrs campus. Also in view a few seconds earlier appears to be part of Northwest residence halls (colloquially known as ‘Frats’ at the time but they don’t call it that now.) The whole area has changed and there are new road layouts and a giant parking garage in the vicinity. You can no longer drive up Hillside Road but the buildings in this video are still there and still very much in-use as classroom buildings and dorms. It makes sense that ESPN shot a promo at Storrs as it’s less than an hour away from Bristol.

Love Davis Phinney's gold Oakley's w/ the clear lenses! I have not seen this video in years.

I used to listen to "Now Nordine" before it was called Word Jazz back around 1968 when it was played on WBBM Radio after the news at 10:30 PM. I've been a fan of Ken's ever since. I'm wondering if the Word Jazz collections you find on Internet Archive are one and the same. The intro music was different - it would start with Ken saying "Now Nordine" through his megaphone voice. Are these the same? Thanks for this video!.

and Arnae Batson!!!!

Loved it

We don't like being touched, thank you

i got to be a course marshal in ASPEN in the 80s. (FANTASTIC FUN.) coors classic // red zinger

This is by far the dumbest design flaw ever. Thanks for your help... Now I need to find a tool that will fit

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This is an incredible video- I loved seeing the old footage and hearing the history behind making Red Rocks Amphitheater! Thank you Chip!!

Back when ESPN was a good sports channel. Now it's a bade circus on drugs. Sports Center sucks, no more NFL Prime Time like the 80s and 90s. collegeGamday is 100% on drugs. GameDay is like you went to a fun party and you drank to much then you got sober and realize I am at a bad party that is alt of control.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra! The surest way of conveying, "This is big!"

Had the pleasure of joining this workout crew. Thanks for the great workout! And this informative video

Racquetball championship

Lou Palmer. A great man.

I loved the Australian Rules Football games, the Canadian Football League and the very first indoor arena football games. ESPN exposed college baseball and college lacrosse to a wider American audience. It helped the original Big East college basketball conference to grow and prosper. And Chris Berman gave to all of us those wonderful nicknames of so many Major League Baseball players. It is a tragic, crying shame that ESPN has degenerated into a bunch of woke, progressive, loud mouthed , left wing punks who love to hear themselves speak and yell and scream and who are legends in tbeir own minds.

Heck, I feel like I've won the tour de France if I could just balance long enough for the light to turn green again.

MTV, CNN, and ESPN. They used to be great.

Woke central

Great video chip!

This seems more like a trade pitch for cable companies than end user content, maybe both

ESPN is crap now. The announcers are annoying, they split the screen and show ads during the action and they mic up the players for insufferable commentary. It’s run by people who feel they need to distract you from the game which they must find boring.

6:33 Shout out to Chris Berman, who is still at ESPN after all these years.

Thanks for making this available. I remember talking about this in high school as they were building it. I went overseas before it ended and I never really found out what happened.

A brilliant concept. I first recall seeing ESPN in 1983 with their USFL coverage. Thanks for sharing this.

I always loved the music soundtrack they used back in the day wish I could find a copy of it I was 13 years old when ESPN launched I had a tape recorder back in the recorded the music soundtrack but I can't find the tapes anymore.

So why not SPN? Because the two-bit tinhorn Satellite Programming Network came first, that's why.

Always free, always fun.....always brutal!!! Best Gym in North America!!!

Jim Simpson/Tony Kubek combo was one of my first introductions to the NBC Baseball Game of the Week on Saturday afternoons when the Vin/Joe duo wasn't on tap.

"Happiness is seeing Bristol in your rear-view mirror" true then and now.

Awesome video. Joe Hendricks is a great guy. I did the workout there for many years until I moved away. I miss the pain!

I would love to see a pitch reel for TNN. I’ve heard it was a really fun and informative video. Can you please upload a copy? In the reel, Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona discusses the inception of TNN and how the country music network came to be. It would be great to see how they pitched the network back in 1983.👍

I worked at ESPN from July 2000 until May 2013. I enjoyed my time there and learned so much from many talented people. My how times have changed. I did freelance TV work with One Inch, 3/4 and Betacam. I remember when ESPN started using Digi-Beta for ESPNews (where I started) and ESPNews was the first ESPN network to use a digital recording platform (the name escapes me now - V910 and V911)...someone help me out here. Quite a rudimentary system compared to the Quantel system they use now (at least I think it's still Quantel they use).

Watching this grand nostalgic moment in history makes me weep...my gosh my whole family is crying. Thank you. 'Merica

Any curling?

I didn't see ESPN until a few years later, but it seems so long ago.

Swamp Buggy races

ESPN as it was meant the be… now it’s all dazzle and baffle w/ BS and on-air showmanship, vs the old ABC WWS, CBS NFL and NBC MLBB straight forward reporting and factual sport journalism, IMHO

Everyone hating on modern day ESPN because you miss the weird little sports should buy ESPN+. Lots of weird little sports like second-division German soccer and college everything.

Back when ESPN actually showed smaller college game--since that was all they could get. Now, they're snobs and act like that no longer exists. Meanwhile, they're too busy ridiculously overpaying gasbags like Screamin' A Smith, as if he adds anything to a broadcast except verbal diarrhea.

ESPN was the first cable channel we got in upstate NY in the early 80s. It didn’t require a cable box. A few months later we got the box and then we had MTV, CNN, etc. Back then, ESPN did not have any professional sports. They showed rodeo, minor league baseball, and Australian football. I still watched it like 12 hours a day. There was a humor about covering sports from day 1. They made even those obscure sports entertaining.

When I watch espn from time to time, sports is still on espn. Unless you’re talking about the sport talk shows.

Wow!!!! I didn’t know that ESPN came out in 1979! I was 10 years old.

My memory of the beginning of espn... they had a show called "Celebrity Pinball"

I had just finished high school when ESPN was 25.

Other than the advancements in technology, a lot of it is the same now as it was back then.