The mogul who created Cablevision also owned Madison Square Garden, and the Knicks and Rangers sports teams.

He was also the head of a family with an “empire” of media and sports properties that includes Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and Rangers teams, and AMC Networks. BBC America is a part of AMC.

In 2015, the Dolan family sold Cablevision to European company Altice for nearly $18bn (£14.3bn).

By then Dolan’s son James was running what the New York Times called the family’s empire.

And the Dolans had become “the family that New Yorkers often loved to hate”, according to the New York Times, over frustration over the Knicks’ performance and fights with networks over their programming that had threatened to keep customers from watching the Academy Awards and the World Series.

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    RIM

    Rest In Money

    I’m sure those billions will get you through the gates of heaven … say hi to Jimmy when you get there.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 days ago

      And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

      Jesus wasn’t exactly ambiguous with this one, yet you still have prosperity gospel grifters shaking people down.