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Charles Dolan & family
Deceased
Chairman and Founder, Cablevision Systems
$5.4B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/30/24
#609 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
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From the Editor
- 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.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Source of Wealth
- Cable television, Self Made
- Citizenship
- United States
- Children
- 6
- Education
- Drop Out, John Carroll University
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