Cox Communications

Cox Communications

Company type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1962
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Key people	Pat Esser, President James C. Kennedy, Chairman Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers owners
Products	Cable Television, Broadband Internet, VoIP
Revenue	$7.054B (2005)
Net income	Not currently available
Number of employees	22,350 (2004)
Website	http://www.cox.com

Cox Communications is a wholly-privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunciations services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6.7 million customers, including 2.7 million digital cable subscribers, 3.1 million Internet subscribers, and 1.7 digital telephone subscribers. Its animated spokesman is named Digital Max.

History

Cox Enterprises expanded into the cable television industry in 1962 by purchasing a number of cable systems in Lewistown, Lock Haven and Tyrone, Pennsylvania, followed by systems in California, Oregon and Washington. The subsidiary company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation (later to be renamed), was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

In 2000 Cox Communications acquired Multimedia Cablevision with assets in Kansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina and Media General with assets in Fairfax County, Virginia.

On November 1, 2005, Cox announced the sale of all of its Texas and North Carolina properties, as well as some systems in Arkansas, California and Oklahoma to Cebridge Communications. The sale closed in 2006 and those systems were transitioned by their new owner from Cox branding to Suddenlink Communications.

Other business units

• Cox Business Services
• Cox Media

Investments

Along with Advance/Newhouse Communications and Discovery Holding Company, Cox Communications is a major investor in Discovery Communications, which operates numerous popular cable television channels.

Privatization

In 2004, Cox Enterprises announced its intention to purchase those shares of Cox Communications which they did not own. A $6.6 Billion tender offer was completed in December of that year, and Cox Communications has been a wholly owned subisidary since. This represents the second time Cox has been taken private by Cox Enterprises.

Current systems

Arizona

• Phoenix
• Tucson

Arkansas

• Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Bentonville and others

California

• Orange County
• Palos Verdes
• San Diego (Other companies such as Time Warner Cable operate here)
• Santa Barbara

Florida

• Central Florida (Gainesville and Ocala)
• Gulf Coast (Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, and surrounding areas)

Georgia

• Middle Georgia (Macon, Warner Robins and surrounding areas)

Idaho

• Sun Valley and surrounding areas

Kansas

• Wichita, Topeka, Manhattan and others (most areas of state outside Kansas City Metropolitan Area and northwest Kansas)

Louisiana

• Greater Lousiana (Baton Rouge, Lafayette and surrounding areas)
• New Orleans

Nebraska

• Omaha and surrounding areas

Nevada

• Las Vegas

New England

• Rhode Island and parts of Connecticut

Ohio

• Cleveland (Broadview Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Fairview Park, Lakewood, Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Township, Parma, Parma Heights, Rocky River and Seven Hills)

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City
• Tulsa

Virginia

• Fairfax
• Fredericksburg
• Hampton Roads
• Roanoke