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Article: Through the Years.(Cox Communications Inc.)(Company overview)
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- Multichannel News
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- September 28, 2009
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1898 James M. Cox, a former schoolteacher and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer , purchases the Dayton Evening News for $26,000.
1913 James Cox is elected governor of Ohio.
1934 Cox enters broadcasting with the establishment of WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, the first radio station in the Miami Valley.
1939 Cox enters the Atlanta market by acquiring The Atlanta Journal , which includes radio station WSB.
1957 James M. Cox Jr. (l.) succeeds Gov. Cox as head of the family business upon the death of his father.
1962 Cox enters the cable-television business with the purchase of systems in Lewiston, Lock Haven and ...