Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton , Ohio , by James Middleton Cox , who began with the Dayton Daily News . The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughters of Cox, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers , two of the richest women in America , worth $10.3 billion each according to Forbes Magazine . The CEO is Anthony's son, James C. Kennedy .
The company, now headquarted in Atlanta , Georgia , continues to publish the Daily News as well as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and fifteen other daily newspapers . It also publishes 30 non-daily papers, including The Western Star , Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper. The company owns 15 television stations including WHIO-TV , the Dayton affiliate of CBS , 81 radio stations , and a large cable television enterprise.
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External link Cox companies (http://www.coxenterprises.com/corp/operating_companies/operatingcompanies.htm )
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We understand the intimacy of radio whether it's in the car, on the desk or under the kitchen cabinet.
Cox Radio , Inc. is one of the largest radio broadcasting companies in the United States based on revenues.
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Cox Radio 3Q profit up on lower charges - Boston.com (233 words)
Cox Radio Inc., one of the nation's largest radio broadcasters, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit grew 12 percent as the company benefitted from a lower tax rate.
ATLANTA --Cox Radio Inc., one of the nation's largest radio broadcasters, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit grew 12 percent as the company benefitted from a lower tax rate.
Growth at Cox's Orlando, Tampa, Birmingham and Southern Connecticut stations was offset by lower results at its Long Island, Richmond, Dayton and Louisville stations.
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