Charles F. Dolan, a media and telecommunications pioneer who founded Cablevision Systems Corp. and spearheaded innovations that transformed the television industry, has died. He was 98.

Charles F. Dolan, who founded HBO, merged a group of small Long Island cable TV systems into a network he called Cablevision and amassed a fortune building an innovative communications ...

Eventually known as Cablevision, it would become the centerpiece of his great fortune and lasting legacy. At the beginning, business experts laughed at the idea that Long Islanders, especially cl ...

Dolan, who pioneered sports broadcasting via the launch of HBO, Manhattan Cable Television, and Cablevision, and held controlling stakes in the companies that owned the New York Knicks and Rangers ...

Dolan, father of James L. Dolan, founded Home Box Office and Cablevision, and later bought Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks. By Associated Press Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of ...

Charles Dolan, founder of Cablevision and News 12, has passed away at the age of 98. Charles Dolan is considered to be a visionary and pioneer of the cable television world. He created HBO ...

Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report.

Charles Dolan, the television innovator who founded Cablevision and HBO, died Saturday. He was 98. Dolan died of natural causes and was surrounded by loved ones, his family told Newsday.

NEW YORK -- Charles Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including New York-based Cablevision and HBO, has died at age 98. Dolan died of natural causes, his family ...

Charles Dolan, the pay-television pioneer who won the first cable-TV franchise in Manhattan, founded HBO and later built Cablevision Systems into the fifth-largest U.S. cable company, has died.