Charles Dolan Dies: Cable Pioneer Who Founded HBO & Cablevision Was 98
deadline.comCharles Dolan, a cable pioneer and patriarch of the Dolan family, which controls media companies, entertainment venues and sports teams, died Dec.
28 of natural causes, Newsday reported. He was 98. “It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved father and patriarch, Charles Dolan, the visionary founder of HBO and Cablevision,” the family said in a statement to Newsday, once co-owned by Charles Dolan and his son Patrick who now owns it.
Charles Dolan is known for founding HBO in 1972 and a year later creating Cablevision, one of the nation’s largest cable operators, which was sold to Altice in 2017 for $17.7 billion.
In 1986, he was instrumental in Cablevision’s launch of News 12 Long Island, the first 24-hour regional cable news channel in the U.S.
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