Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98.

Charles F. Dolan's business choices were diverse and prolific: He founded HBO, bought Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks, and took over a newspaper. Dolan died Dec. 28 at 98.

Charles Dolan, a cable pioneer and patriarch of the Dolan media family, died Dec. 28 of natural causes, Newsday reported. He was 98.