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.

Salutes and remembrances have continued for Charles Dolan, a media pioneer who founded HBO and Cablevision, after his death on Saturday. Dolan, the patriarch of a billionaire media family with considerable holdings in the greater New York area,