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% 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 headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, continues to publish the Dayton Daily News as well as 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 including WSB-TV, the Atlanta affiliate of ABC, 81 radio stations including WSB-AM, and a large cable television enterprise.

Subsidiaries

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• Cox Communications: cable television, digital telephone, high-speed internet
• Cox Radio: radio stations
• Cox Television: television stations
• Cox Newspapers: newspapers
• AutoTrader.com: auto classifieds
• Manheim Auctions: used automobile auctions

Cox Television

There are fifteen television stations in the Cox Television division:

ABC stations

• WFTV, channel 9 in Orlando, Florida*
• WSB-TV, channel 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, the flagship station of Cox Television.
• WSOC-TV, channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina*

CBS stations

• KIRO, channel 7 in Seattle, Washington
• WHIO-TV, channel 7 in Dayton, Ohio

Fox stations

• KFOX-TV, channel 14 in El Paso, Texas
• KRXI, channel 11 in Reno, Nevada
• KTVU, channel 2 in Oakland/San Francisco, California*

Independent stations

• KICU, channel 36 in San Jose, California*
• WAXN, channel 64 in Charlotte, North Carolina*
• WRDQ-TV, channel 27 in Orlando, Florida*

NBC stations

• WJAC-TV, channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• WPXI-TV, channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• WTOV-TV, channel 9 in Steubenville, Ohio

UPN station

• KAME, channel 21 in Reno, Nevada, operated under a local marketing agreement.

Former Cox Stations

• WKBD Detroit, Michigan (acquired 1984, sold 1993 to Paramount Pictures, now owned by CBS)
• KDNL St. Louis, Missouri (acquired 1981, sold 1990 to River City Broadcasting, now owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group)
• WUPL New Orleans, Louisiana (acquired 1997, sold same year to Paramount Pictures, now owned by CBS with a sale to Belo Corporation pending)

* Indicates part of a duopoly

External links

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• Cox Enterprises

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