Charles Dolan & family

• Media pioneer Charles Dolan founded Cablevision and HBO. He died in December 2024 at age 98.
• Dolan owned controlling stakes in AMC Networks and Madison Square Garden's entertainment and sports companies, along with his six children.
• After dropping out of John Carroll University, the Cleveland native got his start creating sports newsreels for TV stations from his home.
• He moved to New York in 1952, making industrial films before wiring lower Manhattan with cable and founding HBO's predecessor, which he sold in 1973.
• He launched Cablevision with 1,500 customers in 1973, and sold the cable giant to billionaire Patrick Drahi's Altice for $17.7 billion in 2016.
• He was chairman emeritus of the Lustgarten Foundation, the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world.

Forbes Lists

Source of Wealth

Cable television, Self Made

Self-Made Score

9

Philanthropy Score

2

Citizenship

United States

Children

6

Education

Drop Out, John Carroll University

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