HBO's rise to the power it's become today came by innovating the very idea of cable television, with an early proposal by founder Charles Dolan, codenamed "The Green Channel" that would revolutionize the way we watch television. Dolan, later to become an owner of the New York Knicks and Cablevision, created a new idea in television — the first subscription-based cable enterprise that would show licensed movies in unedited versions on their channel. By the mid-'70s, HBO began regularly producing their own original entertainment, creating an early model for what would become the premium series of today. Despite some major hurdles as the property changed hands, then merged with Cinemax to create today's streaming platform, HBO has consistently churned out award-winning original series across multiple genres.