Billionaire HBO creator Charles Dolan dies aged 98

The mogul who created Cablevision also owned Madison Square Garden, and the Knicks and Rangers sports teams.

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He was also the head of a family with an "empire" of media and sports properties that includes Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and Rangers teams, and AMC Networks. BBC America is a part of AMC.

Dolan's death was announced in the family's Long Island newspaper, Newsday, on Sunday.

A native of Ohio, Dolan started out distributing sport and industrial films before moving to New York and realising that, because tall buildings interrupted broadcast signals in the air, Manhattan needed cable.

At the time, he was selling special programming to hotels through his Teleguide service, while cable television was taking off in rural areas.

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