| 2009 | Cox Enterprises purchases Cox Radio, Inc. from Shareholders to once again make the company a "privately held" entity. |
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| 2008 | Cox Radio, Inc. acquires 6 stations in Athens, Georgia to compliment the Atlanta market. |
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| 2008 | Cox Radio, Inc. launches Were About Listening brand promise campaign. |
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| 2007 | Cox Radio celebrates the 85th birthday of News/Talk 750 WSB on the air in the Atlanta market on Thursday, March 15, 2007. |
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| 2006 | Cox Radio, Inc. becomes the fourth largest radio broadcasting company in the United States, based on revenues. Owns, operates, or provides sales and marketing services to 80 stations (67 FM, 13 AM) in 18 markets and employs over 2,100 people. |
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| 2000 | Cox Radio Interactive is developed to maximize the company's Internet assets. |
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| 1997 | By Mid 1997, Cox owned more than 49 stations, making it the 9th largest radio company |
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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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| 1990 | Cox acquired two radio stations in Tampa and in Dallas. |
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| 1977 | Cox Radio acquired WLIF in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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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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| 1963 | Cox Broadcasting acquired KTVU-TV in San Francisco and two radio stations in Miami. |
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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. |