The ‘fascinating and compulsively readable’ (Wall Road Journal) inside story of one of the very most successful systems in modern television history: ESPN.

In 1979 it began as a mad idea of beginning a wire channel to televise regional sporting events, and now spans eight channels in the U . S and all over the world. Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the greatest titles in ESPN’s background and an All-Star assortment of a number of the world’s finest athletes, bestselling authors Wayne Miller and Tom Shales consider us behind the camcorders.

Now, within their personal words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind its achievement, as well mainly because the many scandals, rivalries, off-screen fights and triumphs which have followed that ascent. Through the unknown suppliers and business visionaries towards the most famous encounters on television, it’s all here.

‘The depth and breadth from the interviews help to make it not only the definitive account of ESPN’s first three years but one of the best books yet on how cable connection shaped American culture.’ –Hollywood Reporter