Cox Enterprises

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Cox Enterprises
Type	private
Founded	1898 in Dayton, Ohio
Founder	James Middleton Cox
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Key people	James C. Kennedy (CEO, chair)
Industry	Media
Services	Broadcast Stations, Cable, Newspaper
Owner	Anne Cox Chambers, James C. Kennedy, Blair Parry-Okedon
Subsidiaries	Cox Communications, Cox Radio, Cox Television, Cox Target Media, AutoTrader.com, Manheim Auctions, Cox Search
Website	Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98 percent controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late sister Barbara Cox Anthony. The CEO and chairman is Anthony's son, James C. Kennedy.

The company, now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, continues to publish the Dayton Daily News, along with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and fifteen other daily newspapers. It also publishes thirty non-daily papers, including The Western Star, Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper. The company owns fifteen television stations, 81 radio stations, and a large cable television enterprise including the Travel Channel.

[edit] Subsidiaries

• Cox Communications: cable television, digital telephone, high-speed internet
• Cox Radio (NYSE: CXR): radio stations
• Cox Television: television stations
• Cox Target Media: newspapers, Valpak Direct Mail
• AutoTrader.com: auto classifieds
• Manheim Auctions: used car dealer auctions
• Cox Search (Kudzu.com): business and services directory

Cox once owned Rysher Entertainment, best known for distributing Saved by the Bell. Rysher is currently owned by 2929 Entertainment, with distribution rights to most of its library resting with CBS.

[edit] Cox Target Media

• Valpak Direct Mail

[edit] Cox Newspapers

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
• Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas
• Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio
• The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colorado
• The Daily Sentinel, Nacogdoches, Texas
• The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina
• Longview News-Journal, Longview, Texas
• The Lufkin Daily News, Lufkin, Texas
• The Marshall News Messenger, Marshall, Texas
• The Middletown Journal, Franklin, Ohio
• Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach, Florida
• The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida
• The Rocky Mount Telegram, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
• Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, Ohio
• Waco Tribune-Herald, Waco, Texas

[edit] Television stations

Cox Television logo

There are fifteen television stations in the Cox Television division.

• Note: ** -- indicates a station built and signed on by Cox.

Notes:
¹ Through a local marketing agreement, KRXI in Reno operates co-located, MyNetworkTV-affiliated KAME-TV (channel 21), owned by Ellis Communications.

[edit] Radio Stations

Main article: Cox Radio

Cox owns and operates 81 radio stations, including:

• WSB and WSB-FM, Atlanta
• WBAB, Babylon, New York
• WBHK, Birmingham, Alabama
• WHIO and WHKO-FM, Dayton, Ohio
• KTHT, Houston
• WOKV, Jacksonville, Florida
• WEDR, Miami, Florida
• WPLR, New Haven, Connecticut
• WDBO, Orlando, Florida
• KISS-FM, San Antonio, Texas
• WSUN, Tampa, Florida
• KRAV-FM, Tulsa, Oklahoma

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cox Enterprises