Gillian Reagan of the New York Observer reports that Fred Dressler, the man who established the Mets’ SportsNet New York channel has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 66.

Dressler began his career working for ABC-TV and went on to become a top executive at Time Warner Cable, founding the video-on-demand and pay-per-view channel In Demand.

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