Ratings for most HBO shows are relatively low and shows like Game of Thrones cost a lot to make. That said, HBO still turns a tidy profit. Find out how.

Dolan also created Cablevision and the AMC Network, and later owned Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. View on ...

Charles F. Dolan, the pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV ...

Six years later, when he came up with the idea for Home Box Office, better known as HBO, cable was still seen as a way to solve reception problems in rural communities, rather than as a promising ...

BING CROSBY'S FORMER CALIFORNIA DESERT OASIS HOME ON THE MARKET FOR $13.5 MILLION Dolan's legacy in cable TV includes founding Home Box Office, which later became known as HBO, in 1972 and ...

Charles Dolan, a pioneer of the cable-television industry who launched Home Box Office and AMC Networks, has died at age 98. Dolan was the founder of Cablevision Systems, which over four decades ...

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 ...

In 1971, he launched Home Box Office (HBO), working closely with Hollywood studios to distribute movies for subscription home viewing, and two years later he founded Cablevision, a multi-system ...

Dolan’s legacy in cable broadcasting includes the 1972 launch of Home Box Office, later known as HBO, and founding Cablevision in 1973 and the American Movie Classics television station in 1984.

Dolan was a Cleveland native who launched Home Box Office, later renamed HBO, in 1972. In 1973, he founded Cablevision, which was sold to the European telecommunications company Altice in 2016.