Charles F. Dolan's business choices were diverse and prolific: He founded HBO, bought Madison Square Garden and the New York ...

Charles Dolan, a titan of cable who launched HBO and owned Cablevision as well as iconic New York sports teams and venues, ...

"Sometimes A Great Notion" was the first movie ever shown on HBO, then known as Home Box Office Inc., the premium cable ...

A carriage dispute between cable operator Altice and regional sports broadcaster MSG Networks looks bullish—and bearish—for ...

Charles F. Dolan, the media pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable ...

HBO — then a fledgling cable network primarily focused on movie broadcasts — took a bold step into the world of live sports coverage, marking the begin ...

Charles Dolan, the astute businessman who created HBO in the early 1970s before transforming a small cable TV business on ...

In the early 1960s, he founded Sterling Manhattan Cable, the first company to wire ... In 1972, he launched HBO, the first ...

He created the nation’s first urban cable television network, Manhattan Cable, in the 1960s. He introduced feature-length, commercial-free movies on cable with his Home Box Office, for ...

Dolan’s influence in shaping the contemporary television business cannot be overstated. In 1961, he started the process of wiring New York for cable with the launch of Manhattan Cable Television.

He was 98. Dolan first changed the landscape of television in the 1960s, when he laid cable in lower Manhattan and gambled that people would pay for programs superior to those broadcast for free ...