HBO Founder Charles Dolan Dead at 98
Briefly

"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."
"In the 1970s, he founded HBO (Home Box Office), a new cable channel that, for a premium fee, would offer viewers unedited movies without advertisements or commercials."
"Dolan revolutionized television by pioneering cable television; in the 1960s, he predicted that people would pay for higher-quality premium channels through cable."
Read at Vulture
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