In New York, Charles Dolan's Sterling Manhattan Cable TV made the first sports right deals with professional teams in the 60s--Mr. Dolan went on to be one of the founders of HBO, the first satellite-distributed cable channel, and as chairman of Cablevision started the first local all-news channel with News 12 Long Island and the niche premium channels Bravo and American Movie Classics (which changed directions after they became basic channels, although Bravo's direction changing came after it was sold to NBC)--died of natural causes, among his survivors is his son James, the not-particularly-beloved boss of the Knicks and Madison Square Garden:
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