Video: '1979 - ESPN commercials - First Day / 3 months: SportsCenter, NCAA'

(Friday, September 7, 1979, 7:00 p.m. EDT) — The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), an American-based global cable and satellite television channel that focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports highlight and talk shows, and other original programming, made its cable TV debut tonight.