By Richard Goldstein 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 ...

The new deal immediately returned local news, sports and entertainment programming to about 2 million Optimum viewers.

Soon after the forging of that HBO arrangement with Time, Dolan left to launch his own company on Long Island. Eventually known as Cablevision, it would become the centerpiece of his great ...

Dolan, a media and telecommunications pioneer who founded Cablevision Systems Corp. and ... hundreds of onlookers who watched from boats in Long Island Sound. Those Fourth of July celebrations ...

Nexstar’s WPIX in New York and NewsNation are among the TV properties that can no longer be seen on cable systems owned by ...

At its peak, Cablevision was the largest employer on Long Island. Dolan started small and built a billion-dollar media conglomerate. "And eventually it became a company where everybody worked ...

Charles F. Dolan, the media pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV systems into Cablevision, and later created the channel AMC, has died. He ...

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 ...

completed the sale of Cablevision to Altice, a European telecommunications and cable company, for $17.7 billion in June 2016. Dolan, whose primary home was in Cove Neck Village on Long Island in ...

Charles F. Dolan, the media pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV systems into Cablevision, and later created the channel AMC ...

NEW YORK -- Charles Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including New York-based Cablevision and ... Neck Village on New York's Long Island, also held controlling ...