ESPN Plaza
| ESPN Plaza | |
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| File:ESPN HQ.jpg | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Film and television production studio |
| Address | 935 Middle Street Bristol, Connecticut 06010 |
| Coordinates | 41°38′52″N 72°54′8″W / 41.64778°N 72.90222°WCoordinates: 41°38′52″N 72°54′8″W / 41.64778°N 72.90222°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Opening | September 7, 1979 |
| Owner | |
ESPN Plaza, sometimes referred to as the ESPN Campus, is a television production complex located in Bristol, Connecticut. The complex houses production and broadcasting facilities for ESPN, LLC including its ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, and the ACC Network networks along with the ESPN+ and ESPN Unlimited streaming services and studio segments for ESPN on ABC broadcasts. The facility is also where its SportsCenter and E:60 studio programs are broadcast from.[1] In total, the complex spans 1,319,473 square feet.[2]
History
ESPN was originally founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen, and 43 year old eye doctor and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan. In the process of looking for a headquarters for what was Entertainment and Sports Programming (ESP), They originally began looking for land in Plainville, however, due to an ordinance that prohibited satellite dishes, ESP could not settle there.[3] Instead, they chose to buy a parcel of land for $18,000 in Bristol that had been built on a dump, the satellite signal was unaffected in the area, making it an ideal location.[3] Getty Oil provided funding to buy the plot of land and would eventually purchase the network from the Rasmussens on February 22, 1979.[4] The studio opened on September 7, 1979 with the first program being filmed at the venue being the premiere edition of SportsCenter which was taped in front of a small live audience.[5]
on October 5, 2000, ESPN finalized the purchase of nine parcels in Bristol and Southington as part of an expansion for its headquarters.[6]
Current buildings
ESPN North Campus
References
- ↑ Pat Eaton-Robb (September 12, 2012). "ESPN's SportsCenter to air its 50,000th show". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Ventures, LLC. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ESPN Plaza Fact Sheet". ESPN Latin America.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Miller & Shales, p. 13
- ↑ Freeman, Michael. ESPN: The Uncensored History p. 73. Search this book on
- ↑ Stewart, Larry (April 19, 1988). "Dishing It Out : ESPN, the Little Network That Could, Finds There's 24-Hour Sports Audience". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "ESPN Finalizes Land Purchase". Hartford Courant.
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