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Charles Dolan Dies: Media Pioneer Who Founded HBO & Cablevision Was 98
Charles Dolan, a cable pioneer and patriarch of the Dolan media family, 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 2020, Charles Dolan stepped down as executive chairman of the board of directors of AMC Networks, which had been spun out from Cablevision into a separate public company in 2011.
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