Charles F. Dolan, the pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV systems into Cablevision, and later created the channel AMC, has died.

completed the sale of Cablevision to Altice, a European telecommunications and cable company, for $17.7 billion in June 2016. Dolan, whose primary home was in Cove Neck Village on Long Island in ...