Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. He was the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States in the election of 1920. The company is private, 98 percent controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late sister Barbara Cox Anthony. The CEO and chairman is Anthony's son, James ...
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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. He was the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States in the election of 1920. The company is private, 98 percent controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late sister Barbara Cox Anthony. The CEO and chairman is Anthony's son, James C. Kennedy.
The company, now headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, continues to publish the Dayton Daily News, along with 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, 81 radio stations, and a large cable television enterprise including the Travel Channel.
Cox once owned Rysher Entertainment, best known for distributing Saved by the Bell. Rysher is currently owned by 2929...
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