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Encyclopedia > Cox Television
Cox Enterprises

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.


Subsidiaries

  • Cox Communications: cable TV, cable telephone, cable Internet
  • Cox Radio: radio stations
  • Cox Television: TV stations
  • Cox Newspapers: newspapers
  • AutoTrader.com: AutoTrader.com
  • Manheim: auctions

External link

  • Cox companies (http://www.coxenterprises.com/corp/operating_companies/operatingcompanies.htm)

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Cox Enterprises, Inc. - Television (52 words)
Cox Television - Cox entered television in 1948 and now owns 15 TV stations.
In addition to its TV station portfolio, Cox Television also operates three national television advertising sales firms.
Cox Television is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation’s leading media companies and operators of automobile auctions.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Cox Communications (632 words)
In 1982 Cox was one of the earliest companies to offer pay-per-view television when it aired the Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney heavyweight-boxing match.
Cox Communications has also proved itself a pioneer in areas beyond cable television, winning praise from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1992 for making the world's first personal communications services (PCS) phone call over a cable network.
Cox's many outreach endeavors include helping to found Cable in the Classroom, a national nonprofit organization that provides commercial-free television and resources to schools.
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