Cox Enterprises
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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, Digital Telephone, High Speed Internet
- Cox Radio: radio stations
- Cox Television: TV stations
- Cox Newspapers: newspapers
- AutoTrader.com: AutoTrader.com
- Manheim Auctions: Used automobile auctions
Cox Television
There are fifteen television stations in the Cox Television division:
- KAME-TV, channel 21 in Reno, Nevada. It is a UPN affiliate, and is operated under a local marketing agreement.
- KFOX-TV, channel 14 in El Paso, Texas. It is a Fox affiliate.
- KICU, channel 36 in San Jose, California. It is an independent TV station.
- KIRO, channel 7 in Seattle, Washington. It is a CBS affiliate.
- KRXI, channel 11 in Reno, Nevada. It is a Fox affiliate.
- KTVU, channel 2 in Oakland, California. It is a Fox affiliate.
- WAXN, channel 64 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is an independent TV station.
- WFTV, channel 9 in Orlando, Florida. It is an ABC affiliate.
- WHIO-TV, channel 7 in Dayton, Ohio. It is a CBS affiliate.
- WJAC-TV, channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is an NBC affiliate.
- WPXI-TV, channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is an NBC affiliate.
- WRDQ-TV, channel 27 in Orlando, Florida. It is an independent TV station.
- WSB-TV, channel 2 in Atlanta, Georgia. It is an ABC affiliate, and the flagship station of Cox Television.
- WSOC-TV, channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is an ABC affiliate.
- WTOV-TV, channel 9 in Steubenville, Ohio. It is an NBC affiliate.