HBO founder and cable TV pioneer Charles Dolan has died, aged 98
HBO, has died at the age of 98.The news was confirmed by Newsday, a Long Island-based newspaper that is owned by the Dolan family, on Saturday (December 28). “Remembered as both a trailblazer in the television industry and a devoted family man, his legacy will live on,” the tribute read.Dolan is considered one of the most influential figures in modern television history, anticipating the importance of cable television in the 1960s, and later overseeing the rise of the AMC network, as well as owning a range of major sporting and live music venues.He was born on October 16, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, but got his start in Manhattan, where in 1961 he began the process of laying the wires for the launch of Manhattan Cable Television.