rather than via cable. By securing the television rights to these games, his initial company, Sterling Manhattan Cable, helped define a new era for the then-infant cable industry. Dolan later sold ...

A carriage dispute between cable operator Altice and regional sports broadcaster MSG Networks looks bullish—and bearish—for parts of the Dolan family’s Madison Square Garden empire. Yes, it’s as ...

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 ...

Charles Dolan, the astute businessman who created HBO in the early 1970s before transforming a small cable TV business on Long Island into a multibillion-dollar entertainment, sports and telecom ...

Dolan helped wire the New York City area’s first cable television system, then called Sterling Manhattan Cable. The system had local telecast agreements to air games played by the New York ...

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.

when he created the nation's first urban cable television network, Sterling Manhattan Cable. From there, he sought a way to offset the cost of wiring the densely populated boroughs of New York ...

Charles Dolan, a pioneer in cable television who founded HBO and Cablevision ... Dolan founded Sterling Manhattan Cable in 1962, which had exclusive agreements with New York pro-sports teams ...

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 ...