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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 flagship station WSB-TV in Atlanta, 81 radio stations including WSB-AM, and a large cable television enterprise.
Subsidiaries Cox Television There are fifteen television stations in the Cox Television division. Cox also owns a minority share (10 percent) of WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh; the remaining 90 percent of this station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KAME is under local marketing agreement with KRXI. | ||||||||
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