Charles Dolan

Charles Francis “Chuck” Dolan is an American billionaire and the founder of Cablevision. Through supervoting shares, Dolan today controls AMC Networks, MSG Networks, and The Madison Square Garden Company, which at one point were all part of Cablevision itself. 

• Cable pioneer Charles Dolan, along with his wife Helen and 6 children, owns controlling stakes in AMC Networks and The Madison Square Garden Company.
• Dolan sold Cablevision, the cable giant he launched in 1973 with 1,500 customers, to billionaire Patrick Drahi‘s Altice for $17.7 billion in 2016.
• 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 is the chairman emeritus of the Lustgarten Foundation, the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world.