Cox Communications - Definition and Overview

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)