The founder of CableVision and HBO, Charles Dolan, has passed away at the age of 98.
Dolan owned CableVision, the box office PPV company and one of the first companies to carry the original ECW after ECW fans (most notably the Strictly ECW fan movement led by Tony Lewis) wrote letter after letter and email after email until the company caved in and decided to begin carrying ECW PPV events in 1998. It was a big moment for the company as CableVision was one of the leading pay-per-view networks at the time.
In addition to his founding of CableVision, Dolan also had a hand in the founding of the HBO network, which is still around to this day as Max (formerly known as HBO Max).
Strictly ECW was a fan led movement in the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2000s led by Tony Lewis, a New York City Transit System worker who was a passionate fan of ECW. Without Lewis's help, it is unlikely ECW would have ever been cleared by CableVision, this ECW wouldnt have gotten as many PPV buys as they did.
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