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Company History |
Timeline of Events
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The fourth largest radio broadcasting company in the United States, based on revenues. Own, operate, or provide sales and marketing services to 80 stations (67 FM, 13 AM) in 18 markets and employ over 2,100 people.
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| 2000 |
Formed Cox Radio Interactive to maximize the company's Internet assets.
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| 1997 |
Cox Radio, Inc., completes acquisition of New City, adding 12 FM and 6 AM radio stations
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| 1996 |
Cox Radio, Inc., becomes a public company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CXR.
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| 1964 |
Cox Broadcasting Corporation, operating radio and television properties as well as a few cable systems, is established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| 1939 |
Cox first enters the Atlanta market when it acquired The Atlanta Journal, which included WSB radio.
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| 1934 |
Cox enters broadcasting with the establishment of WHIO radio in Dayton.
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| 1920 |
Gov. Cox, Ohio's first three-term governor, is nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United States, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his running mate. After losing the election to Warren G. Harding, Cox returns to Ohio to focus on his growing media businesses.
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| 1898 |
Former schoolteacher and newspaper reporter James M. Cox, age 28, purchases the Dayton Evening (now Daily) News for $26,000.
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