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Business class wows with presentation By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Courtesy Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District
The Oyster Bay High School’s Business Program debuted its proposed business, NomadNest, at the school district’s first Virtual Enterprise Trade Show last month.
At Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting, the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District recognized the students in its business program for their entrepreneurship and performance at the district’s inaugural Virtual Enterprise Trade Show last month. The event, on Dec. 5, turned the high school gym into a hive of activity, with students from five districts, representing more than a dozen “virtual firms,” pitching their products and services to attendees equipped with special VE credit cards — a tool designed to simulate real-world business transactions in a risk-free environment. One of the participating firms, Oyster Bay High’s own NomadNest, captivated the audience with its presentation, which it reprised at the board meeting. The student-run company, which CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
HBO and Cablevision founder Charles Dolan dies at 98 By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Charles F. Dolan, a trailblazing entrepreneur who transformed the television industry as the founder of Cablevision Systems Corp. and HBO, died on Dec. 28, at age 98. Dolan was surrounded by family at his home in Cove Neck Village. His family announced his death in a statement, describing him as a “visionary founder” and a devoted husband, father and grandfather. “Remembered as both a trailblazer in the television industry and a devoted family man, his legacy will live on,” the state-
ment read. Dolan’s innovations reshaped American media. In 1972 he launched Home Box Office, now known as HBO, as a pay-television channel offering movies and live sports events. The channel became a blueprint for premium television, changing h ow a u d i e n c e s c o n s u m e d media. A year later he founded Cablevision, which grew into one of the largest cable companies in the nation. Dolan also created American Movie Classics, in 1984, and News 12, the first 24-hour cable news channel dedicated to local coverage. Bor n on Oct. 16, 1926, in
C l eve l a n d H e i g h t s, O h i o, Charles Francis Dolan was one of four boys raised by their mother, Corinne Henson Dolan, after their father died of cancer. Dolan showed early entrepreneurial talent, earning $2 a week as a high school columnist for the Cleveland Press and later working at a radio station. He served briefly in the Army Air Forces during World War II before enrolling at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, where he met his wife, Helen. The two married in 1950, and were together for 73 years until Helen’s death in 2023. After leaving college, Dolan
launched a sports newsreel business from his apartment, using the kitchen as a makeshift studio. Though the venture was short-lived, it marked the beginning of a career defined by bold ideas and calculated risks. In the 1960s, Dolan broke new ground by wiring Manhattan with coaxial cable to deliver television content. Despite skep-
ticism about the viability of cable television in urban areas, Dolan’s vision and tenacity led to the creation of Sterling Manhattan Cable, a precursor to Cablevision. His crowning achievement came in 1972, while he was aboard the Queen Elizabeth II. Using an old typewriter in his CONTINUED ON PAGE 4