Charles Dolan, creator of HBO, is dead at 98
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Dec. 29 (UPI) -- HBO creator and billionaire Charles Dolan has died at the age of 98. A long-time media entrepreneur, Dolan was selling special programming to hotels through his Teleguide service as cable television was beginning to emerge as an entertainment option in rural areas in the 1960s. Advertisement In 1964, he made broadcasts of the NBA's New York Knicks and NHL's Rangers playoff games available on cable in some Manhattan apartment buildings through a deal with the borough of
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