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