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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Cox Enterprises
Cox was elected to represent Ohio's Third District twice in the U.S. Congress, in 1909-11 and 1911-13.
Cox and running mate Franklin D. Roosevelt were defeated decisively by Republican Warren G. Harding, after Cox strongly endorsed Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations and based his campaign on that issue.
Cox was nearly seventy when he bought both the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Georgian in 1939.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1904   (1440 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Anne Cox Chambers (b. 1919)
Anne Cox Chambers and her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, are the primary owners of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses.
Anne Cox was born on December 1, 1919, in Dayton, Ohio, to Margaretta Blair and James Middleton Cox.
Anthony became chairwoman of Dayton Newspapers, while her husband, Garner Anthony, became the administrative head of Cox Enterprises.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/BusinessIndustry/TopCompaniesEntrepreneursBusines&id=h-1910   (512 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Cox clan offers $7.9 billion to buy back cable unit
Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, ranked 23rd on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people with a net worth of $11.2 billion each, control Cox Enterprises.
Cox Enterprises owns 62 percent of the cable operator's Class A shares and 74 percent of its voting rights, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Cox Enterprises was founded by James Cox, the former Ohio governor and presidential candidate, when he bought the Dayton Evening News of Ohio in 1898.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2001995184_coxbuyback03.html   (592 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Cox Aims to Reclaim Cable Shares
Family-controlled Cox Enterprises is making the $32-per-share bid at time when cable stocks, including Cox's, have been hard hit by concerns about increased competition from telephone and satellite companies.
Cox Enterprises chief executive James C. Kennedy said he wanted to take the cable subsidiary private to avoid the market-related pressure of managing a publicly traded company.
Kennedy is the grandson of the Cox Enterprises founder and the son of Barbara Cox Anthony, one of two sisters who control the company.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A34254-2004Aug2?language=printer   (448 words)

  
 Anne Cox Chambers Information
Anne Cox Chambers (born December 1, 1919) is a billionaire media proprietor.
She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and senior Democratic political identity.
Anne Cox Chambers holds the Chair of Atlanta Newspapers and serves as a Director of Cox Enterprises, one of the largest diversified media companies in the United States.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Anne_Cox_Chambers   (491 words)

  
 Barbara Cox Anthony - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barbara Cox Anthony (1923 - May 28, 2007) was the; second and youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic Governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster.
With her sister Anne Cox Chambers she inherited via a trust ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox Enterprises.
Her net worth was estimated at $12 billion, based principally on her equity interest in Cox Enterprises which made her one of the richest women in the United States and the richest resident of Hawaii.
barbara-cox-anthony.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Barbara_Cox_Anthony   (616 words)

  
 Top 10 Richest Women - #5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
She serves as a Director of Cox Enterprises, one of the largest diversified media companies in the United States.
She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and senior Democratic political identity.
Anne Cox Chambers holds the Chair of Atlanta Newspapers and serves as a Director of Cox Enterprises, one of the largest diversified media companies in the United States.
www.richestwomen.info /5_6.php   (780 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article
Cox Enterprises, with private revenues of $4.23 billion, is ranked 25 on this year's list of America's largest private companies.
Kennedy, a former reporter and newspaper general manager, runs the conglomerate at the behest of his mother, Barbara Cox Anthony of Honolulu, and aunt, Anne Cox Chambers, a onetime Democratic fundraiser and former ambassador to Belgium, who sit on the board of directors.
Cox Television has already spent $60 million to put its 15 on-air TV stations in the digital band this year--which opens the door to transmitting multiple streams of video.
www.forbesimg.com /forbes/2002/1125/182_print.html   (405 words)

  
 Kennedy: Cox's cable plan takes it out of acquisition market - 8/6/2004 - CED - CA6266714   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cox Enterprises will be taking on $7.9 billion in debt to buy the publicly traded shares of Cox Communications for $32 a share.
Cox Communications, by contrast, offered "an opportunity for us to invest in a company we believe in and an industry we believe in," Kennedy said.
Cox Broadcasting Corp. (which later became Cox Communications) had been public from 1964 to 1985, when it went private by merging into Cox Enterprises.
www.cedmagazine.com /article/CA6266714.html   (921 words)

  
 Cox Family to Take Firm Private
Cox Enterprises is still controlled by the founder's two daughters, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, whose $11.2 billion fortune put them in the top 25 of this year's Forbes billionaire list.
More recently, many thought Cox was a natural bidder for Adelphia Communications Corp., which put itself on the block this year as part of its efforts to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Cox, which operates in 15 states, has been a leader in the cable industry in transforming itself from a traditional operator to a provider of TV, telephone and high speed Internet services.
www.hearst.com /hearstlink/08-02-2004/textimage_15121CoxF267.html   (854 words)

  
 The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Dealbook: Kissing the Public Goodbye
The family that controls Cox Communications announced plans last week to take the publicly held cable company private and, as is the way of corporate America and Wall Street, now lots of others are toying with the same concept.
Cox and others contemplating such a move seem to be fed up with all those pesky shareholders, quarterly earnings targets and second-guessing research analysts.
James C. Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of Cox Enterprises, which is controlled by Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, said as much in his proposal to the board of Cox Communications.
www.nytimes.com /2004/08/08/business/yourmoney/08deal.html?ex=1249704000&en=d69f8856495bc8e0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (772 words)

  
 Cox Enterprises, Inc. - Company Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cox Enterprises is one of the nation's leading media companies and providers of automotive services, with 2005 revenues of $12 billion and 78,000 employees.
Since Kennedy was named to his post in 1988, Cox Enterprises has increased annual revenues from $1.8 billion in 1988 to more than $12.0 billion in 2005.
Governor Cox's daughters, Anne Cox Chambers and Barbara Cox Anthony, serve on the Cox Enterprises Board of Directors and remain active in the management of the company.
www.coxenterprises.com /corp/aboutcox/comp_overview.htm?Vermenu=comp_overview   (142 words)

  
 William & Mary Alumni > Alumni Gazette
Garner Anthony '53 arrived in Williamsburg from Honolulu, Hawaii Territory in the fall of 1948 an eager 18-year old freshman.
When questioned about the value of playing intercollegiate sports, Anthony is modest about his successes on the tennis court: "I think all of the experiences in college contribute to maturity, it is difficult to generalize whether one experience is more important than another.
After marrying his wife Barbara Cox Anthony in 1959, he soon became involved in the management of her family's publishing and media business.
www.wmalumni.com /gazette/august_2000/alumnews_2.shtml   (741 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Business
Cox Enterprises is controlled by founder James Cox’s daughters, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, whose $11.2-billion networth this year ranked them twenty-third among the world’s richest people, according to Forbes magazine.
Cox Enterprises, which has a 73 per cent voting stake in Cox Communications, said it expects the acquisition will require the approval of a special committee of Cox Communications’ independent directors.
Cox Communications has been one of the more conservative acquirers, though in late 2001, it lost out to Comcast in the battle to buy ATandT Corp’s cable assets.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040803/asp/business/story_3574980.asp   (390 words)

  
 Cox owners to take company private | Tech News on ZDNet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cox Enterprises is controlled by founder James Cox's daughters, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, whose $11.2 billion net worth this year ranked them at No. 23 among the world's richest people, according to Forbes magazine.
Cox Communications' competitors include cable TV operators such as Comcast, satellite operators such as DirecTV and EchoStar Communications, and phone companies such as SBC Communications.
Cox Enterprises, which has a 73 percent voting stake in Cox Communications, said it expects the acquisition will require approval of a special committee of Cox Communications' independent directors.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9584-5292867.html   (657 words)

  
 Barbara Cox Anthony - Images and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barbara Cox Anthony is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper reporter who bought the Dayton Daily News, now known as the Daily News, in 1898.
In the mid-80s, the Cox sisters decided they didn't want Cox to be traded publicly anymore, so they took it private in a $1.2 billion dollar deal.
Barbara and her sister Anne Cox Chambers control 98% of Cox Enterp...
www.kevo.com /profile/Barbara_Cox_Anthony/165   (367 words)

  
 Forbes Articles
Cox Enterprises is privately held, but it owns roughly 65% of two public companies--Cox Communications, in cable, and Cox Radio, one of the country's largest radio operators with 81 stations.
Observes his mother, Barbara Anthony, "Jim worked from the time he was young." He had virtually no contact with his father, whose family founded Hawaiian Airlines.
Barbara Cox Anthony, who has at least $10 billion, making her one of the richest women in the world, lives almost anonymously in Honolulu, Hawaii.
www.dyanmachan.com /kennedy.html   (1710 words)

  
 DaytonDailyNews: Dayton, Ohio, news and information
DAYTON — The Barbara Cox Anthony Scholarships will be awarded this spring to outstanding male and female graduating seniors from Miami Valley high schools.
The Barbara Cox Anthony Scholarships are designed to encourage highly motivated students who, because of limited family finances, cannot afford to attend a college.
Family members of employees of Cox Ohio Publishing and other Cox-owned properties in the Dayton area are ineligible to compete for the scholarships.
www.daytondailynews.com /sports/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/06/ddn010707coxscholar.html   (299 words)

  
 Cox Enterprises | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
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 ontrolled 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.
www.babylon.com /definition/Cox_Enterprises/English   (84 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News - Kokua Line
I just wondered what Barbara Cox Anthony, who is listed as one of the world's richest people, has contributed to our city.
Answer: Anthony leads a low-profile life in Honolulu, and just as quietly has contributed much to many and varied groups and organizations in Hawaii, according to the latest public reports we've been able to find.
Anthony donates privately, through her foundation and through the James M. Cox Foundation, according to Farley.
starbulletin.com /2003/04/22/news/kokualine.html   (505 words)

  
 Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Cox Communications and TiVo Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Is a Cox Communications ...
Cox is asking a lot of questions about TiVo...
While Cox currently offers its own DVR service, the Cox DVR may soon be powered by TiVo, and include the features that TiVo owners have come to expect." -- from a Cox Cable survey to their customers.
Cox has a huge customer base in Fairfax County, VA (suburban DC) where they replaced Media General a few years back.
thomashawk.com /2006/05/cox-communications-and-tivo-sitting-in.html   (1254 words)

  
 Cox, Batten Families Took Similar Routes to Success
NORFOLK The stories of how the Battens and Coxes made their fortunes are similar: Each took one newspaper and expanded it into a media empire, while keeping it in the family.
The Cox family runs Cox Enterprises Inc. in Atlanta, owner of 17 dailies, including the flagship, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 25 weeklies and shoppers, 15 television stations and 79 radio stations.
Anthony, 82, and Chambers, 85, were No. 12, with a net worth of $12.5 billion each.
www.backchannelmedia.com /newsletter/article/2326/Cox-Batten-Families-Took-Similar-Routes-to-Success   (595 words)

  
 Colorado State University - Faculty and Staff Resources (e-Comment Daily)
Colorado State University recently named Dr. Wayne McIlwraith, professor of surgery and director of the Orthopaedic Research Center at the university, the Barbara Cox Anthony Endowed University Chair in Equine Orthopaedic Research.
The endowed chair was created with a $3 million gift from Anthony that the university received during the 2001-2002 academic year.
Anthony gave an additional $3 million gift to the Animal Cancer Center at the same time the gift to the Orthopaedic Research Center was made.
comment.colostate.edu /index.asp?page=display_article&article_id=253911256   (454 words)

  
 Cox board group will study proposal to go private - MarketWatch
Privately held Cox Enterprises is controlled by founder James Cox's daughters, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, who are said by Forbes magazine to be among the world's 25 richest people with a net worth of $11.2 billion.
James Cox's grandson, James C. Kennedy, is the chairman of both companies' boards and CEO of Cox Enterprises, whose holdings include newspapers, radio and television stations, an auto auction business, Autotrader.com, Internet and telephone service, as well as the nation's third-largest cable television business with 6.3 million customers.
Cox Enterprises said it had $10.7 billion in revenue in 2003.
www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={EB3B29B9-ED48-4A25-A7CB-CA155AAF45A5}   (664 words)

  
 JohnSugg.com: Editor's Lunch Dates a Reason to Fight Homelessness?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of the rulers of the Cox media conglomerate is Barbara Cox Anthony.
Anthony is worth according to the last tally by Forbes, a cool $11.3 billion.
According to a 2002 story in the magazine, no mega-wealthy American has given less as percentage of assets to charities than has Barbara Cox Anthony (only one has given less in actual dollars).
www.johnsugg.com /2005/06/editors_lunch_d.html   (1393 words)

  
 Cox Sisters Story
NEW YORK -- Reclusive sisters Barbara Cox Anthony, 81, and Anne Cox Chambers, 85, once again topped the Forbes list of the world's richest media moguls, with a net worth of $12.5 billion -- each.
The Cox sisters own 98% of Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based media company founded by their father in 1957 that owns 17 daily newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; 15 TV and 81 radio stations; and Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable TV company.
The Cox sisters' fortune increased by nearly $1 billion from last year, helping them move up 15 places and maintain their position as the world's richest media moguls.
mysite.verizon.net /bizoipnk/gotunion/id14.html   (421 words)

  
 Barbara Cox Anthony, The 400 Richest Americans - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barbara Cox Anthony, The 400 Richest Americans - Forbes.com
With sister Anne Cox Chambers, two daughters of James M. Cox (d.
Barbara's son, James Cox Kennedy, runs the business.
www.forbes.com /lists/2005/54/3E4Q.html   (179 words)

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