"Sometimes A Great Notion" was the first movie ever shown on HBO, then known as Home Box Office Inc., the premium cable service that would change television forever. It was the brainchild of Charles Dolan.

Charles F. Dolan, a cable TV pioneer who founded multiple media companies, including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at the age of 98.

Charles Dolan, a pioneer of the cable-television industry who launched Home Box Office and AMC Networks, died at age 98. Dolan was the founder of Cablevision Systems, which over four decades grew into a leading pay-TV operator in the New York metropolitan area.