{"id":22990,"date":"2014-12-29T04:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22990"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:26:16","slug":"the-evolution-of-espn-35-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22990","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of ESPN: 35 years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Of ESPN&#8230;A Hometown Newspaper Article From The Birstol Press<\/p>\n<p>Today there are only seventeen of the original staffers that started with ESPN in 1979, and this story is told by three of them. Thanks to ESPN cameraman Ryan Balton for sending this along. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p>By the way&#8230;Bristol, Connecticut is where ESPN is located. Until a few years back, I didn&#8217;t know where their HQ was either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpress.com\/BP-Bristol+News\/334021\/humble-start-espn-celebrates-its-beginning-40-years-ago\">http:\/\/www.bristolpress.com\/BP-Bristol+News\/334021\/humble-start-espn-celebrates-its-beginning-40-years-ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.centralctcommunications.com\/bristolpress\/news\/article_592230c6-8e32-11e4-8b55-d3b75fca33f2.html?mode=jqm\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The evolution of ESPN: 35 years in the making\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477164659_32_The-evolution-of-ESPN-35-years-in-the-making.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.centralctcommunications.com\/bristolpress\/news\/article_592230c6-8e32-11e4-8b55-d3b75fca33f2.html?mode=jqm\">The evolution of ESPN: 35 years in the making<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRISTOL \u2014 When ESPN went on the air 35 years ago, it had one building, a trailer full of production equipment and lots of mud everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/774837965887088\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Of ESPN&#8230;A Hometown Newspaper Article From The Birstol Press Today there are only seventeen of the original staffers that started with ESPN in 1979, and this story is told by three of them. Thanks to ESPN cameraman Ryan Balton for sending this along. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee By the way&#8230;Bristol, Connecticut is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[725],"class_list":["post-22990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59325,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990\/revisions\/59325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}