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Television pioneer Charles F. Dolan, who founded multiple media companiesincluding Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died. He was 98 years old.
“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,” his family said in a statement to Newsday.
A family spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that he “died peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by his loved ones.”
“Remembered as a pioneer in the television industry and a devoted family man, his legacy will live on,” the spokesman added.
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Charles F. Dolan has died at the age of 98. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
Dolan’s legacy a cable television including founding Home Box Office, later known as HBO, in 1972 and founding Cablevision the following year. It also launched the American Movie Classics television station in 1984.
He was also founder and chairman emeritus of The Lustgarten Foundation in Uniondale, New York, which conducts pancreatic cancer research.
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Dr. Cablevision CEO William Baker, Catherine Williams and Charles Dolan attend the 2011 Communications Center Luncheon at The Pierre Hotel on October 17, 2011 in New York City. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
In addition, he launched News 12 a New York Citythe first 24-hour cable channel for local news in the US
Dolan, a Cleveland native whose primary home was in Cove Neck Village on Long Island in New York, also had controlling interests in companies that own Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, according to Newsday. .
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Neil Sedaka, Charles Dolan and Diana Feldman. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
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The cable television pioneer is survived by six children, 19 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His wife, Helen Ann Dolan, died last year.
The Wall Street Journal contributed to this report.
