Cox Enterprises

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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

There are fifteen television stations in the Cox Television division:

ABC stations

CBS stations

Fox stations

Independent stations

NBC stations

UPN station

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

List of cable, satellite and other specialty television providers
Cable television: Adelphia \| Bresnan \| Bright House Networks \| CableOne \| Cable TV Hong Kong \| Cablevision (US) \| Cablevision (Canada) \| Canal Digital \| Charter \| Cogeco \| Comcast \| Cox \| Eastlink \| Foxtel \| GCI \| Global Destiny \| Insight \| Kabel Deutschland \| Knology \| Mediacom \| Midcontinent Communications \| Millennium Digital Media \| NTL \| Neighbourhood Cable \| Optus \| Persona \| RCN \| Rogers \| Service Electric \| SkyCable \| SelecTV \| Shaw \| StarHub CableTV \| Suddenlink \| Telewest \| Saturn \| Time Warner \| TransACT \| Vidéotron \| WOW! Internet Cable Phone \| WightCable
Satellite television: Athina Sat \| Astro \| Austar \| Bell ExpressVu \| Canal Digital \| CanalSat \| Cyfra+ \| DirecTV \| Dish Network \| DStv \| Freesat \| Freesat from Sky \| FreeView (NZ) \| Foxtel \| GlobeCast World TV \| Home2US \| NTV Plus \| NOVA Cyprus \| NOVA Greece \| Sky Angel \| Sky Digital \| Sky Italia \| Sky PerfecTV! \| Sky TV (NZ) \| StarChoice \| STAR TV \| Tata Sky \| TPS \| Viasat \| Voom \| WOWOW
IPTV: Canal Digital \| now TV \| TeliaSonera \| HomeChoice
Terrestrial television: Boxer TV Access \| FreeView (NZ) \| Freeview (UK) \| Top Up TV \| MiTV \| USDTV
Fiber-Optic: Verizon FiOS
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Cox Enterprises, Inc.

ABC Network Affiliates: WFTV¹ | WSB | WSOC¹

CBS Network Affiliates: KIRO | WHIO

Fox Network Affiliates: KFOX | KRXI | KTVU¹

Independent Television Stations: KICU¹ | WAXN¹ | WRDQ¹

NBC Network Affiliates: WJAC | WPXI | WTOV

UPN Network Affiliate: KAME²³

¹Stations involved in a duopoly.

²The station will affiliate with My Network TV starting September 5, 2006.

³Cox operates the station under a local marketing agreement.

Annual Revenue: .0 billion USD (2005) | Employees: 77,000 | Stock Symbol: Unknown at this time. | Website: [www.coxenterprises.com]

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