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Privately held company
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More ambiguous terms for a privately held company are unquoted company and unlisted company. Though less visible than their publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the worlds economy. In 2008, the 441 largest private companies in the United States accounted for US$1,800,000,000,000 in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to Forbes. In 2004, the Forbes count of privately held U. S. businesses with at least $1 billion in revenue was 305, cargill, Koch Industries, Bechtel, Publix, Pilot Corp. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hearst Corporation, Cox Enterprises, S. C, johnson, McWane, Carlson Companies, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States. In the broadest sense, the private corporation refers to any business not owned by the state. This usage is found in former communist countries to differentiate from former state-owned enterprises. In the United States, the privately held company is more often used to describe for-profit enterprises whose shares are not traded on the stock market. In countries with public trading markets, a privately held business is taken to mean one whose ownership shares or interests are not publicly traded. Often, privately held companies are owned by the company founders and/or their families, sometimes employees also hold shares of private companies. Most small businesses are privately held, Private companies may be called corporations, limited companies, limited liability companies, unlimited companies, or other names, depending on where and how they are organized and structured. In the United States, but not generally in the United Kingdom, privately held companies generally have fewer or less comprehensive reporting requirements and obligations for transparency, via annual reports, etc. than publicly traded companies do. For example, in the United States, unlike in Europe, in addition, private company executives may steer their ships without shareholder approval, allowing them to take significant action without delays. There is a requirement for large proprietary companies, which are required to lodge Form 388H to the ASIC containing their financial report. In the United States, private companies are held to different accounting auditing standards than are public companies, other companies, like Sageworks, provide aggregated data on privately held companies, segmented by industry code. Privately held companies also sometimes have restrictions on how many shareholders they may have, for example, the U. S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, section 12, limits a privately held company, generally, to fewer than 2000 shareholders, and the U. S. Investment Company Act of 1940, requires registration of investment companies that have more than 100 holders, in Australia, section 113 of the Corporations Act 2001 limits a privately held company to fifty non-employee shareholders. Private enterprises comprise the sector of an economy
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Dayton, Ohio
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Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County. A small portion of the city extends into Greene County, the Dayton-Springfield-Greenville Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,080,044 in 2010, making it the 43rd-largest in the United States. Dayton is within Ohios Miami Valley region, just north of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area, Dayton also hosts significant research and development in fields like industrial, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering that have led to many technological innovations. Much of this innovation is due in part to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with the decline of heavy manufacturing, Daytons businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors. Other than defense and aerospace, healthcare accounts for much of the Dayton areas economy, hospitals in the Greater Dayton area have an estimated combined employment of nearly 32,000 and a yearly economic impact of $6.8 billion. It is estimated that Premier Health Partners, a network, contributes more than $2 billion a year to the region through operating, employment. In 2011, Dayton was rated the No.3 city in the out of the top 50 cities in the United States by HealthGrades for excellence in health care. Many hospitals in the Dayton area are consistently ranked by Forbes, U. S. News & World Report, and HealthGrades for clinical excellence. Dayton is also noted for its association with aviation, the city is home to the National Museum of the United States Air Force and is the birthplace of Orville Wright, other well-known individuals born in the city include poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and entrepreneur John H. Patterson. Dayton is also known for its patents, inventions, and inventors that have come from the area. In 2008,2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the No.1 mid-sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development, also in 2010, Dayton was named one of the best places in the United States for college graduates to find a job. Dayton was founded on April 1,1796, by 12 settlers known as The Thompson Party and they traveled in March from Cincinnati up the Great Miami River by pirogue and landed at what is now St. Clair Street, where they found two small camps of Native Americans. Among them was Benjamin Van Cleve, whose memoirs provide insights into the Ohio Valleys history, two other groups traveling overland arrived several days later. In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper laid out Mad River Road, Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1803, and the city of Dayton was incorporated in 1805. The city was named after Jonathan Dayton, a captain in the American Revolutionary War who signed the U. S, constitution and owned a significant amount of land in the area. Historically, Dayton has been the home for many patents and inventions since the 1870s, according to the National Park Service, citing information from the U. S. Patent Office, Dayton had granted more patents per capita than any other U. S. city in 1890, the Wright brothers, inventors of the airplane, and Charles F. Kettering, world-renowned for his numerous inventions, hailed from Dayton. Paul Laurence Dunbar – a famous African-American poet and novelist – penned his most famous works in the late 19th century, innovation led to business growth in the region
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James M. Cox
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James Middleton Cox was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U. S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920 and he founded the chain of newspapers that continues today as Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate. Cox was born on a farm near the tiny Butler County, Ohio, village of Jacksonburg and he was educated in a one-room school until the age sixteen. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother in 1886 to Middletown, Ohio, in 1892 he received a job at the Cincinnati Enquirer as a copy reader on the telegraph desk, and later started to report on spot news including the railroad news. He also confronted John H. Patterson, president of Daytons National Cash Register Co. revealing facts of antitrust violations, in 1905, foretelling his future media conglomerate, Cox acquired the Springfield Press-Republic published in Springfield, Ohio, and renamed it, the Springfield Daily News. In 1908, he ran for Congress as a Democrat and was elected, Cox represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives in 1909–1913, resigning after winning election as Governor of Ohio in a three-way race gaining 41. 5% of the vote. Cox served three terms as Governor of Ohio, first, in 1913–1915 and then in 1917–1921 and he presided over a wide range of measures such as laying the foundation of Ohios unified highway system, creating no fault workers compensation system and restricting child labor. He introduced direct primaries and municipal home rule, started educational and prison reforms, during World War I, Cox encouraged voluntary cooperation between business, labor, and government bodies. In 1918, he welcomed constitutional amendments for Prohibition and woman suffrage, Cox supported the internationalist policies of Woodrow Wilson and reluctantly supported US entry into the League of Nations. Cox claimed that teaching German was a menace to Americanism. To fight unemployment and inflation, he suggested simultaneously lower income and he promised to introduce national collective bargaining legislation and pledged his support to the Volstead Act. Cox spoke in support of Americanization to increase loyalty to the United States among immigrant population, despite all efforts, Cox was defeated in the 1920 presidential election by a fellow Ohioan and newspaperman, U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding of Marion, the public had grown weary of the turmoil of the Wilson years, and eagerly accepted Hardings call for a return to normalcy. Coxs running mate was future president, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the better known analyses of the 1920 election is in Irving Stones book about defeated presidential candidates, They Also Ran. However, Cox would outlive all three men by several years, during the campaign, Cox several times recorded for The Nations Forum, a record label that made voice recordings of American political and civic leaders in 1918-1920. After stepping down from public service, he concentrated on building a media conglomerate. In 1923 he acquired the Miami Daily News and the Canton Daily News, in December 1939, he purchased the Atlanta Georgian and Journal, just a week before that city hosted the premiere of Gone with the Wind. This deal included radio station WSB, which joined his previous holdings, WHIO in Dayton and WIOD in Miami, to give him, air from the Great Lakes on the north to Latin America on the south
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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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Telecommunication
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Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems. Telecommunication occurs when the exchange of information between communication participants includes the use of technology and it is transmitted either electrically over physical media, such as cables, or via electromagnetic radiation. Such transmission paths are divided into communication channels which afford the advantages of multiplexing. The term is used in its plural form, telecommunications. Early means of communicating over a distance included visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, other examples of pre-modern long-distance communication included audio messages such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth, the word telecommunication is a compound of the Greek prefix tele, meaning distant, far off, or afar, and the Latin communicare, meaning to share. Its modern use is adapted from the French, because its use was recorded in 1904 by the French engineer. Communication was first used as an English word in the late 14th century, in the Middle Ages, chains of beacons were commonly used on hilltops as a means of relaying a signal. Beacon chains suffered the drawback that they could pass a single bit of information. One notable instance of their use was during the Spanish Armada, in 1792, Claude Chappe, a French engineer, built the first fixed visual telegraphy system between Lille and Paris. However semaphore suffered from the need for skilled operators and expensive towers at intervals of ten to thirty kilometres, as a result of competition from the electrical telegraph, the last commercial line was abandoned in 1880. Homing pigeons have occasionally used throughout history by different cultures. Pigeon post is thought to have Persians roots and was used by the Romans to aid their military, frontinus said that Julius Caesar used pigeons as messengers in his conquest of Gaul. The Greeks also conveyed the names of the victors at the Olympic Games to various cities using homing pigeons, in the early 19th century, the Dutch government used the system in Java and Sumatra. And in 1849, Paul Julius Reuter started a service to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, a service that operated for a year until the gap in the telegraph link was closed. Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke invented the telegraph in 1837. Also, the first commercial electrical telegraph is purported to have constructed by Wheatstone and Cooke. Both inventors viewed their device as an improvement to the electromagnetic telegraph not as a new device, samuel Morse independently developed a version of the electrical telegraph that he unsuccessfully demonstrated on 2 September 1837
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Automotive
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The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles, some of them are called automakers. It is one of the worlds most important economic sectors by revenue, the term automotive was created from Greek autos, and Latin motivus to represent any form of self-powered vehicle. This term was proposed by Elmer Sperry, the automotive industry began in the 1890s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. For many decades, the United States led the world in automobile production. In 1929, before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, at that time the U. S. had one car per 4.87 persons. After World War II, the U. S. produced about 75 percent of auto production. In 1980, the U. S. was overtaken by Japan, in 2006, Japan narrowly passed the U. S. in production and held this rank until 2009, when China took the top spot with 13.8 million units. With 19.3 million units manufactured in 2012, China almost doubled the U. S. production, with 10.3 million units, from 1970 over 1998 to 2012, the number of automobile models in the U. S. has grown exponentially. Safety is a state that implies to be protected from any risk, danger, in the automotive industry, safety means that users, operators or manufacturers do not face any risk or danger coming from the motor vehicle or its spare parts. Safety for the automobiles themselves, implies there is no risk of damage. Safety in the industry is particularly important and therefore highly regulated. Automobiles and other vehicles have to comply with a certain number of norms and regulations, whether local or international. The standard ISO26262, is considered as one of the best practice framework for achieving automotive functional safety. In case of safety issues, danger, product defect or faulty procedure during the manufacturing of the motor vehicle and this procedure is called product recall. Product recalls happen in every industry and can be production-related or stem from the raw material, however, the automotive industry is still particularly concerned about product recalls, which cause considerable financial consequences. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007, consuming over 980 billion litres of gasoline, the automobile is a primary mode of transportation for many developed economies. The Detroit branch of Boston Consulting Group predicts that, by 2014, meanwhile, in the developed countries, the automotive industry has slowed down. It is also expected that this trend will continue, especially as the generations of people no longer want to own a car anymore
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Mass media
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The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information electronically, via such media as film, radio, recorded music, digital media comprises both Internet and mobile mass communication. Internet media comprise such services as email, social sites, websites. Print media transmit information via physical objects, such as books, comics, magazines, newspapers, event organizing and public speaking can also be considered forms of mass media. The organizations that control these technologies, such as studios, publishing companies. In the late 20th century, mass media could be classified into eight mass media industries, books, the Internet, magazines, movies, newspapers, radio, recordings, and television. The explosion of digital technology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries made prominent the question. For example, it is whether to include cell phones, computer games. In the 2000s, a called the seven mass media became popular. For example, the Internet includes blogs, podcasts, web sites, the sixth and seventh media, Internet and mobile phones, are often referred to collectively as digital media, and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media. Some argue that video games have developed into a mass form of media. While a telephone is a communication device, mass media communicates to a large group. In addition, the telephone has transformed into a phone which is equipped with Internet access. A question arises whether this makes cell phones a mass medium or simply a device used to access a mass medium. There is currently a system by which marketers and advertisers are able to tap into satellites and this transmission of mass advertising to millions of people is another form of mass communication. Video games may also be evolving into a mass medium, video games provide a common gaming experience to millions of users across the globe and convey the same messages and ideologies to all their users. Users sometimes share the experience with one another by playing online, excluding the Internet however, it is questionable whether players of video games are sharing a common experience when they play the game individually
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Cox Communications
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Cox Communications is an American privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and Home Automation services in the United States. Cox is headquartered at 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd in Sandy Springs, Georgia, the subsidiary company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation, was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It was taken private by Cox Enterprises in 1985, in 1993, Cox began offering telecommunications services to businesses. This eventually grew into Cox Business, which now represents $1 billion in annual revenue, in 1995, Cox acquired the Times Mirror cable properties. In 1997, Cox became the first multiple system operator to offer phone services to customers following the 1996 Telecom Act. In 1999, Cox acquired the television assets of Media General in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg. In 2000, Cox Communications acquired Multimedia Cablevision with assets in Kansas, Oklahoma, the Board also forbade Cox from raising rates to recover the cost of the fine for a period of 10 years from the actual completion date. The total fine was approximately $93,000, the sale closed in 2006 and those systems were transitioned by their new owner from Cox branding to Suddenlink Communications. On May 14,2007, Cox announced that they had sold their investment in Discovery Communications for the Travel Channel, related assets, in 2007, DiversityInc magazine named Cox Communications #25 in its Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Cox climbed to the position on Diversity Inc. s 2008 list. Also in 2008, Cox was named #8 on the Top 10 Companies for African Americans, on November 19,2010, Cox began offering Unbelievably Fair Wireless services in Orange County, California, Omaha, Nebraska, and, in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Two separate PureCell System 400 kilowatt installations will generate enough power to reduce the company’s dependence of the local power grid. In September 2011, Cox Home Security was added to their suite of products listed on their website and this new service utilizes advanced technologies similar to the home security products offered by other MSOs such as Comcast. In August,2013, Cox launched their Contour TV product, the product integrates HD DVR, TV, iPad, and extra room set-top boxes that utilize user profiles to suggest viewing recommendations. Cox Business, Provides business level video, voice and Internet services, Cox Media, Advertising sales Travel Media, Inc. In 2004, Cox Enterprises announced its intention to purchase shares of Cox Communications which it did not already own. A $6.6 billion tender offer was completed in December of that year and this was the second time Cox Communications was taken private by Cox Enterprises. Cox distributes standard definition and high-definition cable television programming, including Digital Cable, Cox launched Digital Cable on its Orange County system in 1997
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Cox Media Group
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Cox Media Group, Inc. Cox Media Group is headquartered at 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Road in Atlanta, Georgia. In December 2008, Cox Enterprises created Cox Media Group by merging Cox Newspapers, Cox Radio, the creation of Cox Media Group was a departure from grouping subsidiaries based solely on publishing medium. In August 2009, Cox Enterprises realigned its radio, television, newspaper/publishing, under the new structure, while the local brands remain independent, they share resources and some management. Dayton, Ohio, was considered the prototype for the group, where radio, television, newspaper. In addition to the stations and newspapers, Cox Media Group encompasses Cox Digital Solutions, Cox Reps, Kudzu. com, Savings. com. CMG introduced a new group buying discount program called DealSwarm in October 2010, DealSwarm provides online discounts at local businesses. The program is active in such Cox Media Group properties as Atlanta, Austin and Dayton. In April 2013, CMG launched the new site Rare. us as a conservative media source, originally with the tagline “Red is the Center” and more recently “America’s News Feed. ”After initially-low audience numbers, the site expanded dramatically following more prominent use of social media. In July,2012 CMG announced its intention to sell its stations in smaller markets, Birmingham, Greenville, Hawaii, Louisville, Richmond. It also intends to spin off its smaller market television stations in El Paso, Johnstown, Reno, the company said it intended to focus on larger markets or smaller markets that could be clustered together with other CMG properties. The following newspapers were at one time owned by subsidiary Cox Newspapers Inc and this radio portfolio includes 71 FM stations and 15 AM stations. Cox Radio became a company, majority owned by Cox Enterprises. Around April 2009, Cox Enterprises proposed a $69 million United States dollar takeover offer of Cox Radio, the offer expired on May 1,2009. The offer was raised to $4.80 a share. The offer was accepted, and the acquisition was completed on June 1, clark Howard * Rick and Bubba Herman Cain * *= Broadcast from Atlanta Note, **—indicates a station built and signed on by Cox. Stations are listed in order by state and city of license. Note, - Indicates a station built and signed on by Cox, notes,1 Through a shared services agreement, Cox operates WJAX-TV, owned by Bayshore Television, LLC.2 Local news cable channel, airs on various different channels. Notes,1 Co-owned with Knight Newspapers until 1962 in a joint venture
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Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Sandy Springs is a suburban city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, north of Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, Sandy Springs had a population of 93,853, in 1842, the Austin-Johnson House was erected on what is now Johnson Ferry Road. It is the oldest house in Sandy Springs, in 1851, Wilson Spruill donated 5 acres of land for the founding of the Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, near the natural spring for which the city is named. In 1905, the Hammond School was built at Johnson Ferry Road and Mt. Vernon Highway, in 1950, the state legislature blocked Atlanta from annexing the community, which remained rural until the Interstate Highway System was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. In 1959, after a fire at Hammond Elementary School, Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield urged residents to support annexation so that the area would have better firefighting protection. In the early 1960s, Georgia 400 and Interstate 285 were constructed, connecting Sandy Springs to metro Atlanta and initiating a boom that brought new residents. In 1966, annexation by Atlanta was defeated in a referendum, debate over incorporation began in the 1970s when the city of Atlanta attempted to use a state law to force annexation of Sandy Springs. The attempt failed when the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that the law was unconstitutional, in response, the Committee for Sandy Springs was formed in 1975. In every legislative session, state legislators representing the area introduced a bill in the Georgia General Assembly to authorize a referendum on incorporation, in 1989, a push was made for Sandy Springs to join neighboring Chattahoochee Plantation in Cobb County. This move was blocked by Speaker of the House Tom Murphy, on January 16,1997, Eric Rudolph bombed an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs. The assembly also repealed the requirement that new cities must be at least 3 miles from existing cities, the bill allowing for a referendum on incorporation was introduced and passed as HB37. The referendum initiative was approved by the Assembly and signed by Governor Sonny Perdue, the referendum was held on June 21,2005, and residents voted 94% to 6% in favor of incorporation. Many residents of unincorporated and less-developed south Fulton County strongly opposed incorporation, County residents outside Sandy Springs were not allowed to vote on the matter. Efforts such as requesting the U. S. Justice Department to reject the plan were unsuccessful. A mayor and six city council members were elected in early November 2005, with Eva Galambos, formal incorporation occurred on December 1, making Sandy Springs the third-largest city ever to incorporate in the U. S. The citys police force and fire department began service in 2006, in 2010, the city became the first jurisdiction in Georgia to successfully bail out from the preclearance requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The boundaries of Sandy Springs are Atlanta to the south, Cobb County to the west and north, Roswell to the north, and Dunwoody and Brookhaven, at the DeKalb County line, to the east. A small panhandle in the northeast extends between the Chattahoochee River to the north and Dunwoody to the south, ending in a small border with Peachtree Corners in Gwinnett County
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Manheim Auctions
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Manheim, Inc. is an automobile auction company and the worlds largest wholesale auto auction based on trade volume with 145 auctions located in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. As a subsidiary of privately owned Cox Enterprises, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, Manheims primary business is wholesaling vehicles via a process using traditional. They with Jacob Jack H. Ruhl, Paul H and their first sale ran three cars and sold just one to the general public. This action prompted the partners to make Manheim Auto Auction a dealer-only enterprise, by 1966, Manheim Auto Auction established itself as the worlds volume leader, selling off 45 vehicles per hour or 700 cars/trucks on a given Friday night at the 16-laned auction. Adding closed-circuit television, the dealers and wholesalers watched the auction from the new cafeteria in its expanded building. In 1965, Manheim Auto Auction purchased the National Auto Dealers Exchange in Bordentown, New Jersey, thus, the partners made Manheim attractive for a potential buyer. Cox Enterprises entered the auction business in 1968, when it purchased Manheim Auto Auction in Manheim. Under Cox, Manheim continued to expand by providing services, such as reconditioning, recovery. By the end of the 20th century, the Manheim Auto Auctions had advanced its sales by adding information technology, today, Cox Enterprises owns 98% of Auto Trader, one of the world’s leading providers of online and print automotive consumer information. Manheim acquired Dent Wizard, the paintless dent removal company in 1998, after turning it into the largest PDR company in the world, Manheim sold Dent Wizards United States and Canada markets to H. I. G. Capital, a global private equity firm, in November 2010. In 2006, Manheim became interested in Akinvest Inc and this Canadian company started off as a business that speculated on world automobile values in 1991. By 2005 Akinvest, doing business as Exporttrader, was developed the service aspects of the business that assisted non-North American dealers. Company became known as the leader in the export of used cars field from North America, all of the major remarketing companies such as Copart, IAA, ADESA, Carfax and Manheim had foreign transactions that were completed by Akinvest/Exporttrader. The strength of the procedures used were enhanced by superior programming and automated Web Sites, Exporttrader was consulted by marketing firms and journals like the Wall Street Journal to give opinions on global automotive trade and were asked to speak at international conferences. In 2008 Akinvest/Export Trader had 70 employees with offices in Toronto, Moscow, Akinvest is the parent company of two of the leading players in the export business, Freightmar International and ExportTrader. com. The final stage of the transfer to Manheim occurred in late 2014, subsequently in April 2015, Manheim has closed the Canadian offices of WES Exporttrader and moved the operation to Atlanta. They now run all new Global Trader out of Atlanta, in February Manheim Global Export was sold, End of March 2016 Manheim Global Export was sold, but it was too many debts and company was declared as the bankrupt
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Autotrader.com
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Autotrader. com, Inc. is an online marketplace for car shoppers and sellers. It aggregates millions of new, used, and certified second-hand cars from thousands of dealers, the site also provides users with automotive reviews, shopping advice, and comparison tools for car financing and insurance information. The firm is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and has featured in The New York Times, Businessweek. The company is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. The company is led by Sanford Schwartz, in 2010, Providence Equity Partners purchased a 25% interest in AutoTrader. com, becoming a minority owner in the company. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is also an investor, autotrader. com is wholly owned by AutoTrader Group. In particular, VinSolutions, co-founded by Matt Watson was sold for $135 million to AutoTrader. com in 2011, autotrader. com offers services that help consumers buy cars, sell cars, or research car purchases. For those looking to buy a car, the site offers listings of new and used vehicles for sale from dealers and those looking to sell a car to a dealer can ask for offers from their local area. After taking their car to the dealer to verify its condition, the firm has an editorial team that reviews new and used cars and provides tips and advice via videos, articles, and social media content. The firm offers its products and services online and on its iPhone, Android, Windows 8, and iPad apps
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Kelley Blue Book
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Kelley Blue Book is an Irvine, California-based vehicle valuation and automotive research company that is recognized by both consumers and the automotive industry. The company is part of Cox Automotive, a unit of Atlanta, the company began as the Kelley Kar Company founded by Les Kelley in 1918. Kelley started the company with three Model T Fords and his younger brother, Buster, worked with Kelley as a lot boy. By using data collected from the dealership, Kelley published the company’s first Blue Book in 1926, Kelley Blue Book was formed in 1926, and the Kelley family continued its dealership business in Southern California for several decades. By the 1960s, the company moved from a car dealership to a specialty publisher, in 1995, Kelley Blue Book created its company website, which contained tips and pricing information from its hardcopy guide. In December 2010, Kelley Blue Book was purchased by AutoTrader. com, after its acquisition, the company operated as a subsidiary of AutoTrader. com, Inc. In 2013, the company formed an alliance with Bitauto Holdings Ltd. to expand into China. In 2014, Kelley Blue Book signed a agreement with Hendrick Motorsports to be a primary sponsor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. s No.88 Chevrolet SS NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. The company reports market value prices for new and used automobiles of all types, for new automobiles, KBB also provides information about a cars MSRP and dealer invoice price. For used cars, KBB provides retail value, certified pre-owned value, trade-in value, Kelley Blue Book also offers expert and consumer vehicle reviews and ratings, and 5-Year Cost to Own information for new cars. In 2012-2014, Harris Poll recognized Kelley Blue Book as the Online Auto Shopping Brand of the Year, in addition, the company received a WebAward in the automotive category of Outstanding Website for two consecutive years
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Savings.com
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Savings. com, Inc. is an online destination that offers coupons and deals redeemable at nationally recognized merchant web sites and stores. Deals are voted on by the community, the Savings. com domain was purchased in 2003 by a founder of the affiliate marketing company Commission Junction, Inc. The company originally functioned as a lead generation resource in 2004, Savings. com relaunched in its present-day form in 2007, founded by Loren Bendele, Marcus Flemming, Tom Kuljis and Joe Zulli, and made the move to exclusively offer online and offline coupons. Savings. com has an office in Santa Barbara, California, with its headquarters located in Santa Monica, bought in 2003, the savings. com domain sold for $1.9 million and ranked among the top 25 most expensive domains at the time of its purchase. Savings. com sources much of its content from the stores they are affiliated with, members, their own internal deal hunting team, Savings. com announced in November 2008 that it closed $4 million in series B funding led by U. S. In 2009, Savings. com launched a sister site branded as Savoo. co. uk to serve the voucher code market in the United Kingdom, since 2009, Savings. com has sponsored an annual educational conference focused on sharing ways to lead a frugal lifestyle. In June 2012, Cox Target Media announced the acquisition of Savings. com, Savoo. co. uk, Savings. com expanded into grocery in October 2013, launching Favado, a mobile grocery savings app. Coupon Commission Junction Coupons. com DealNews Groupon PromotionCode. org Retailmenot Official website
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Valpak
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Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. commonly known as Valpak, is a North American direct marketing company owned by Platinum Equity. Valpak provides print, mobile and online advertising solutions and coupons, Terry Loebel, an unemployed autoworker, founded Valpak in 1968, using a $500 loan to start mailing coupons from his home to households in Clearwater, Florida. In 1972, Valpak established its first Franchise in Orlando, Florida and by 1982, a group of investors purchased Valpak from Terry Loebel in 1985. In September 1991, Cox Target Media, Inc. purchased Valpak and by 1997, in January 2017, Platinum Equity acquired Valpak from Cox Target Media, Inc. Today, Valpak operates nearly 150 franchise offices in the United States and Canada, annually, Valpak distributes some 20 billion coupons in more than 500 million envelopes and millions more through its mobile app and websites. Valpak prints, packages and ships its coupon envelopes from the Valpak Manufacturing Center, print inserts in the envelope advertise businesses with coupons for dining, health and beauty, entertainment, automotive, home services and more. In each of its cycles, Valpak sells the outside of the envelope to select local and national advertisers. Previous advertisers include Food Network, HGTV, CBS and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Valpak launched its mobile coupon app for iPad and iPhone devices in October 2009. Soon after, Valpak launched Android and BlackBerry versions of the mobile app, Valpak integrates its mobile coupons into digital wallet apps Apple Passbook, Google Wallet, Windows Phone Wallet and Samsung Wallet. The Valpak mobile app is free to download and also features augmented reality technology, since 1994, Valpak. com has been a source for printable coupons, promo codes and coupon codes. Today, the company also has a Canadian website, Valpak. ca. Competitors & similar businesses include Moneymailer. com, Coupons. com, Coupon Cabin, RetailMeNot, Official website USA Official website Canada
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Dayton Daily News
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The Dayton Daily News is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. It is the publication of Cox Media Group Ohio. The DDN has its headquarters at the Cox Media Group Ohio Media Center at 1611 South Main Street in Dayton, the newspaper’s editorial and business offices were moved there in April 2007. For more than 100 years the editorial offices and printing presses were located in downtown Dayton. Since 1999, the paper has been printed at a modern facility, CMG Ohio also publishes two other daily newspapers and websites in Southwest Ohio, Journal-News and the Springfield News-Sun. On August 15,1898, James M. Cox purchased the Dayton Evening News, one week later, on August 22,1898 he renamed it the Dayton Daily News. The paper was founded with the intention of pioneering a new type of journalism, keeping weak ties to politicians and advertisers while seeking objectivity and these goals pushed the paper in the direction of valuing the public interest. A Sunday edition was launched on November 2,1913, in 1948, Cox purchased two morning papers, The Journal and The Herald, from the Herrick-Kumler Company. The next year he combined them to form The Journal Herald, for the next four decades, The Journal-Herald was the conservative morning paper, and the Dayton Daily News was the liberal evening paper. The papers operated newsrooms on separate floors of the building in downtown Dayton. On September 15,1986, The Journal-Herald and the Daily News were merged to become a morning paper, the Journal-Herald name last appeared on the papers front-page flag on December 31,1987. Cox was the Democratic Partys candidate for U. S. President in the election of 1920, coxs running mate for vice president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected president in 1932. The paper was led by Jeff Bruce as editor from 1998 to 2008, Bruce replaced Max Jennings, who retired. When Bruce retired in 2007 Kevin Riley,44, a graduate of the University of Dayton, was named editor. Riley spent most of his career with the paper, starting as an editor and later serving as sports editor, Internet general manager. He was promoted from deputy editor and she was soon after named the first female publisher. In 2011, Jana Collier was promoted from managing editor to editor-in-chief of CMG Ohio and is responsible for content, Collier is also the first woman to be editor-in-chief of the Dayton Cox newspaper organization. The following people at some point worked at or wrote for the Dayton Daily News, Erma Bombeck Si Burick Ritter Collett James M. Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Daily News,1998
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United States presidential election, 1920
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The United States presidential election of 1920 was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2,1920. The Republicans nominated newspaper publisher and Senator Warren G. Harding from Ohio, while the Democrats chose newspaper publisher, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, in poor health, chose not to run for a third term. Former President Theodore Roosevelt had been the front runner for the Republican nomination and he died in January 1919 without leaving an obvious heir to his progressive legacy. With both Wilson and Roosevelt out of the running, the parties turned to little-known dark horse candidates from state of Ohio. As his running mate, Cox chose Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harding virtually ignored Cox in the race and essentially campaigned against Wilson by calling for a return to normalcy. With a spending advantage of almost 4-to-1, Harding won a victory by winning 37 states, including the first Republican victories in Arizona, New Mexico. The wartime economic boom had collapsed, at home, the year 1919 was marked by major strikes in the meatpacking and steel industries and large-scale race riots in Chicago and other cities. Anarchist attacks on Wall Street produced fears of radicals and terrorists, harding’s victory margin of 26. 2% in the popular vote remains the largest popular-vote percentage margin in presidential elections after the unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820. Hardings percentage of the vote, however, was later exceeded by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964. As a result, the popular vote increased dramatically, from 18.5 million in 1916 to 26.8 million in 1920. The election is notable for being the first of three in which a sitting U. S. senator was elected president. Republican candidates, On June 8, the Republican National Convention met in Chicago, the race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois. Other names placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Butler, la Follette from Wisconsin was not formally placed in nomination, but received the votes of his state delegation nonetheless. Harding was nominated for president on the ballot, after some delegates shifted their allegiances. At that decisive time, the friends of Harding will suggest him, Daughertys prediction described essentially what occurred, but historians Richard C. Bain and Judith H. Parris argue that Daughertys prediction has been too much weight in narratives of the convention. The Tally, Source for convention coverage, Richard C, bain and Judith H. Parris, Convention Decisions and Voting Records, pp. 200–208. Early favorites for the nomination had included McAdoo and Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, others placed in nomination included New York Governor Al Smith, United Kingdom Ambassador John W. Davis, New Jersey Governor Edward I
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Ticket (election)
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A ticket refers to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat. For example, in the U. S. the candidates for President and Vice President run on the same ticket, a ticket can also refer to a political party. In this case, the candidates for a party are said to be running on the partys ticket. Straight party voting is voting for the party ticket, including every office for which the party has a candidate running. While a ticket usually does refer to a party, they are not legally the same. Depending on the rules, these rogue members may retain the membership of their original party. Thus two individuals from one party can oppose each other under different tickets. This was the case for incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman, who ran against his Democratic Partys official candidate for re-election in 2006, political party factions may also sponsor tickets in primary elections
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression and he is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U. S. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt was born in 1882 to an old, prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County and he attended the elite educational institutions of Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School. At age 23 in 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt, and he entered politics in 1910, serving in the New York State Senate, and then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson. In 1920, Roosevelt was presidential candidate James M. Coxs running mate and he was in office from 1929 to 1933 and served as a reform governor, promoting the enactment of programs to combat the depression besetting the United States at the time. In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency, Roosevelt took office while in the United States was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. Energized by his victory over polio, FDR relied on his persistent optimism and activism to renew the national spirit. He created numerous programs to support the unemployed and farmers, and to labor union growth while more closely regulating business. His support for the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 added to his popularity, the economy improved rapidly from 1933–37, but then relapsed into a deep recession in 1937–38. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court, when the war began and unemployment ended, conservatives in Congress repealed the two major relief programs, the WPA and CCC. However, they kept most of the regulations on business, along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wagner Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Social Security. His goal was to make America the Arsenal of Democracy, which would supply munitions to the Allies, in March 1941, Roosevelt, with Congressional approval, provided Lend-Lease aid to Britain and China. He supervised the mobilization of the U. S. economy to support the war effort, as an active military leader, Roosevelt implemented a war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and initiate the development of the worlds first atomic bomb. His work also influenced the creation of the United Nations. Roosevelts physical health declined during the war years, and he died 11 weeks into his fourth term. One of the oldest Dutch families in New York State, the Roosevelts distinguished themselves in other than politics. One ancestor, Isaac Roosevelt, had served with the New York militia during the American Revolution, Roosevelt attended events of the New York society Sons of the American Revolution, and joined the organization while he was president
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Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
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Rysher Entertainment
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Rysher Entertainment is the owner of television and film programming content, primarily distributed around the world by CBS Television Distribution and Paramount Pictures. Select rights are distributed by Warner Bros. Universal, Lionsgate, Fox, Columbia Pictures, MGM and other entertainment distribution companies worldwide, the company has its roots in Bing Crosby Productions. In 1993, Cox acquired Rysher Entertainment, Rysher, founded in April 1991 by Keith Samples, had been established as an independently owned company whose original sole product had been the distribution of NBCs series Saved By The Bell. In 1993, Rysher merged with Al Masinis Television Program Enterprises to form Rysher TPE, through Rysher TPE, they produced and distributed shows such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Star Search. Later, they produced and distributed George & Alana, which ran for one season in 1995, Rysher also distributes internationally through CTD several of HBOs award-winning titles including Arli$$, Oz and Sex and the City. Rysher also produced House Arrest and Zeus and Roxanne, both of which were released by MGM and distributed by HBO Home Video for home release, Rysher Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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CBS Television Distribution
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The current president is Paul Franklin. CBS also handles the TV rights to much of its own theatrical films, the company formerly distributed the film libraries from Paramount Pictures and Republic Pictures, among others. The company is responsible for international television distribution rights to series by Rysher Entertainment including certain HBO series through its CBS Studios International division. These distribution rights are now held by NBCUniversal Television Distribution and Trifecta Entertainment & Media, until May 2009, CTD distributed the Paramount Pictures library on television. By then, CBS also dropped the name Paramount from television for good, Paramount has also joined up with Trifecta. The current moniker for CTDs overseas distribution arm is CBS Studios International and its predecessors were CBS Broadcast International and CBS Paramount International Television. In 2012, CBS Television Distribution ceased to be an entity, becoming a division of CBS Studios
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the publication of Cox Enterprises. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, the staff was combined in 1982. Separate publication of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001, the AJC has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, Georgia. It is also co-owned with television flagship WSB-TV and six radio stations, subsequent to the staff consolidation of 1982, the afternoon Journal maintained a conservative editorial stance, while the editorials and op-eds in the morning Constitution were center-left. When the editions combined in 2001, the editorial page staffs also merged, the editorials and op-eds have attempted to strike a more balanced tone. Most of the editorial stances have been closer to those of the old Constitution center-left viewpoint. The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883, founder E. F. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1887. After the Journal supported Presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Margaret Mitchell worked for the Journal from 1922 to 1926. In 1922, the Journal founded the Souths first radio station, the radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to James Middleton Cox, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises. The Journal carried the motto Covers Dixie like the Dew, the Constitution, as it was originally known, was first published on June 16,1868. Its name changed to The Atlanta Constitution in October 1869 and it was such a force that by 1871 it had killed off the Daily Intelligencer, the only Atlanta paper to survive the American Civil War. In August 1875 its name changed to The Atlanta Daily Constitution for two weeks, then to The Constitution again for about a year, in 1876 Captain Evan Howell purchased a controlling interest from E. Y. Clarke Sr. and became its editor-in-chief. That same year, Joel Chandler Harris began writing for the paper and he soon invented the character of Uncle Remus, a black storyteller, as a way of recounting stories from African-American culture. In October 1876 the newspaper became The Daily Constitution, before settling on the name The Atlanta Constitution in September 1881, during the 1880s, editor Henry W. Grady was a spokesman for the New South, and encouraged industrial development. The Constitution started the radio station, WGM AM710, having received its Federal Radio Commission broadcast license in March 1922. It is now succeeded by WGST AM640, though its original facility is now WGKA AM920, the station folded after just over a year, and was donated to the Georgia School of Technology. Ralph McGill, editor for the Constitution in the 1940s, was one of the few southern newspaper editors to support the American Civil Rights Movement, in 1946, reporter David Snell wrote that Japan had developed its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Journal-News
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Journal-News is a daily newspaper published by Cox Media Group in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States. It formed in 2013 from the merger of the Hamilton JournalNews in Hamilton, journal-News is intended to be a full-size daily newspaper with minimal coverage of Cincinnati and Dayton. It shares staff and resources with sister publications Todays Pulse and the Dayton Daily News and competes with The Cincinnati Enquirer
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The Palm Beach Post
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The Palm Beach Post is an American daily newspaper serving Palm Beach County in South Florida, and the Treasure Coast area. As of 2012 it was the 80th largest daily newspaper in the United States, the Palm Beach Post began as The Palm Beach County, a weekly newspaper established in 1908. In January 1916, the became a daily, morning publication known as The Palm Beach Post. In 1934, Palm Beach businessman Edward R. Bradley bought The Palm Beach Post and The Palm Beach Times, in 1947, both were purchased by longtime resident John Holliday Perry, Sr. who owned a Florida newspaper chain of six dailies and 15 weeklies. In 1948, Perry purchased both the Palm Beach Daily News and the society magazine Palm Beach Life, in 1979, The Palm Beach Times was renamed The Evening Times. In 1987, The Evening Times merged with The Post to form a single newspaper, in 1989, all of neighboring sister publication Miami News assets and archives were merged with the Palm Beach Post upon the closure of that paper. In 1996, The Palm Beach Post sponsored Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Wendy Guey, Palm Beach Post photographer Dallas Kinney won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, Migration to Misery. Post photographers have subsequently been Pulitzer finalists three times, Editor Edward Sears won the Editor of the Year award in 2004 from Editor & Publisher. Sears led the Post newsroom from 1985-2005, the Palm Beach Post has over 750,000 daily readers in print and online each week. Palm Beach Newspapers Inc. continues to publish The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News, Florida Pennysaver and La Palma, each publication has a corresponding web site. The Post launched PBGametime. com, home for its coverage of Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast high school sports, like many newspapers throughout the country, the Post downsized its newsroom by more than 30 percent in 2008 and 2009. At the same time it closed its printing press, the Posts print edition is now printed in Broward County by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and shipped north to Palm Beach County for daily distribution. As of 2012, the Posts average daily circulation was slightly over 88,000, well below daily circulation figures of around 165,000 at the turn of the century and it is the 80th largest daily newspaper in the United States and the 7th largest in Florida. List of newspapers in Florida Miami portal Journalism portal Official website
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Springfield News-Sun
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The Springfield News-Sun is a daily newspaper published in Springfield, Ohio, by Cox Enterprises, which also publishes the Dayton Daily News. Both newspapers contain similar content, but tailor their local news coverage to the area served. The News-Sun primarily serves Springfield and Urbana, in southwestern Ohio, the Springfield News-Sun is currently being published in Dayton, Ohio. Springfield’s daily newspaper has been serving residents of Clark and Champaign counties since 1817, winner of nearly 100 Ohio Associated Press Awards including a General Excellence Award from Ohio Associated Press. Nearly 90% of adults in Clark County read the Springfield News-Sun over the course of a month and its website, SpringfieldNewsSun. com is available 24 hours a day,7 days a week and features local breaking news
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KCYY
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KCYY is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to San Antonio, Texas, United States, the serves the San Antonio metropolitan area. It is currently owned by Cox Radio after the sale by New City Communications, the station previously has had an Adult Contemporary format, known as KLLS, or Klassy 100, until switching to country. It is headquartered in Suite 600 at 8122 Datapoint Drive in San Antonio and its transmitter site is in unincorporated Bexar County near Government Canyon. During the 1970s the station was KSAQ which had a contemporary top-40 Format, KMFM was on 96.1 playing a middle of the road format. By the early 1980s KMFM flipped to KSLR96.1 FM Son Light Radio as a Christian format. Salem communications acquired rock formatted KMAC 630AM and flipped it to KSLR630 and KSAQ moved to 96. 1FM/760 Super Q,1987 KLLS becomes KCYY Y-100 switching from Adult Contemporary to Country. 1981 KCCW becomes KLLS Class 100 airing an automated Adult Contemporary format, for a short time it would simulcast on AM930. 1979-1981 KZZY becomes Country KCCW100.3 1977-1979 KSAQ becomes CHR/Top40 KZZY Buzzard Rock 100. 3/1150 1974-1977 KSAQ100.3, 1966-1974100.3 Signs on as KBER-FM as Country. KCYY website Query the FCCs FM station database for KCYY Radio-Locator information on KCYY Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KCYY
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KGLK
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KGLK and KHPT is a pair of simulcast classic rock formatted radio stations licensed to serve the communities of Lake Jackson, Texas, and Conroe, Texas, United States, respectively. Both facilities are owned by Cox Media Group, and are part of a four station cluster that includes KTHT and KKBQ, the Eagle is headquartered in Suite 2300 at 1990 Post Oak Blvd in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States. KGLKs main transmitter facilities are located near Liverpool, TX with a transmitter site co-located at the KKBQ backup site. KHPTs main transmitter site is located in Splendora, Texas, and is shared with KSBJ, between the two frequencies, the Eagle covers more square miles than any station in southeast Texas. Originally KGOL, the station broadcasting to the Lake Jackson area at 107.3 FM as a Gospel station in the early 1980s. The station moved north to service to Houston and signed on at 107.5 FM on August 5,1986. Z107 competed primarily with KSRR and KLOL, having won the battle against KSRR who flipped to Top 40, yet losing the war to KLOL. On October 31,1994, at 11 a. m. the station flipped to rock as KRQT. Under direction of new General Manager, Pat Fant, the station re-launched the format in late May 1995 under the new callsign KTBZ and 107-5 The Buzz moniker. When the actual purpose of the campaign was discovered, an online forum maintained by KTBZ was shut down in order to try to keep the word from getting out as listeners began to post their findings. Still, this did not prevent listeners from distributing banners throughout Houston, KTBZ staged a public rally, at which a representative from parent company Clear Channel Radio came to read a statement. The statement read, in part, that in response to comments, The Buzz would be saved and moved to 94.5 FM. Just before 8,00 p. m. on July 18,2000, KTBZ, KTBZ led a one-minute countdown as they faded off of the 107.5 frequency, while KLDE had their air staff riding in a transporter across the dial to 107.5 FM. At exactly 8,00 p. m. the stations simultaneously exchanged frequencies, kTBZs montage led in with Turn on the Juice. While KLDEs air staff crash-landed on 107.5.5 The Buzz, the remaining new station, Oldies 107.5, marked the transition by playing 48 hours of non-stop music. This officially completed the trade in ownership,97.1 FM continued to simulcast 107.5 FM until November 2000, when it flipped to Rhythmic CHR. In 2004, afternoon boss jock Barry Kaye left the station, the station was also the first to launch HD digital radio in the Houston market in January 2005, and the HD-2 channel was a mix of pre-1964 oldies. On July 10,2006, the station changed branding to 107-5 The New K-Hits, while it did not flip formats or fire all the DJs, it did fire the morning team, to be replaced by longtime KRBE APD/afternoon DJ Scott Sparks
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KISS-FM
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KISS-FM is a radio station broadcasting a mainstream rock format serving the San Antonio, Texas area. The Cox Radio outlet broadcasts at 99.5 MHz and its studios are located in Northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center complex, and the transmitter site is in Elmendorf, Texas. KISS-FM was originally a Show Tunes format which changed to a type of AOR in the late 1970s, AOR was sometimes referred to as All Over Road. During the early years, KISS DJs were mostly given a free rein, many brought in their own vinyl albums, producing their own shows within a looser, free-form rock, rock ballad & heavy metal format. The most notable past KISS/KMAC DJs/personalities were Joe Anthony The Godfather, and Lou Roney, with their help and support of other on-air DJs, listeners, sponsors, bands and concert promoters, San Antonio became known as the Heavy Metal Capitol Of The World. It is still known as such today by many, stone City Attractions & Jam Productions were the notable concert promoters. Back in the days before corporate consultants, KISS-FM was 12,900 watts, KMAC broadcast show tunes, opera, as well as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir until they simulcasted the rock format with KISS-FM later in the day/evening. In those earlier years, KISS-FM signed off at midnight each night, kMAC/KISS was originally owned by Howard W. Davis. Spread The Word - was the window sticker slogan & on-air moniker during the 1970s & 1980s. KISS would be owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company, Adams Broadcasting, Rusk Corp, the AOR format would last until May 1990 when KISS flipped to oldies known as 99.5 KISS oldies. The owners of KSMG Magic 105.3 bought KISS-FM and KOOL930 AM from Adams Broadcasting Corporation in November 1991 and simulcasted KSMG on both 99.5 FM and 930 AM. As of New Years Day 1992, the music format was back on 99.5 KISS, then called Active Rock and as of 2012. Despite being considered a mainstream rock reporter per Mediabase, they were typically an active rock station per Nielsen BDS, by 2012, KISS-FM essentially switched formats to mainstream rock. The station was delisted from Mediabases add board following the tweak, the Billy Madison Show Jeanne Nass - Middays Randy Bonillas - Afternoons Chris Sifuentes - Nights Chuck Vans - Weekends Joe the Godfather Anthony Louis J. Radio & Records Station of the Year Official KISS-FM website Query the FCCs FM station database for KISS Radio-Locator information on KISS Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KISS
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KJSR
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KJSR is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and the broadcast license is held by Cox Radio and its studios are located in South Tulsa and the transmitter is in southeast Tulsa County near Coweta, Oklahoma. KJSR broadcasts a rock format. The studios were located in the prayer tower on the ORU campus. In the mid-1970s the station aired an Urban Contemporary format as KKUL K-Cool, in 1977 KKUL was sold to William H. Bill Payne, and changed to Top 40 as KTFX The Superfox 103. In November 1979 KTFX changed to a format as The Country Fox which lasted until 1995. It was the first station to air a country music format on FM in the Tulsa market. In 1995, KTFX was sold to Cox Radio, the changed to a classic hits format as KJSR Star 103.3. The KTFX calls and country format moved to 102.3 in 1995, on October 9,2012 at 12 midnight KJSR rebranded as Rock 103. On April 10,2014, KJSR re-imaged as 103.3 The Eagle,103.3 The Eagle also simulcasts on Cox Communications digital cable channel 1981 in Tulsa. The station is owned by Cox Media Group, KJSR official website Query the FCCs FM station database for KJSR Radio-Locator information on KJSR Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KJSR
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KKBQ
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KKBQ, The New 93Q, is a commercial FM radio station with a country music format. KKBQ is licensed to Pasadena, Texas and broadcasts on 92.9 MHz for the Greater Houston area, the station is owned by Cox Radio and is part of its Houston radio cluster including 107.5 KGLK,106.9 KHPT &97.1 KTHT. Studios and offices are in Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States, KKBQ has been nominated twice for Country Music Association awards for Best Radio Station in a Large Market, winning once. It was honored with a NAB Marconi award in 2013 for Country Station of the Year, the station has also won the Billboard/Airplay Monitor Radio Awards award for Best Country Station three times. The station signed on at 92.5 FM in August 1962 as KLVL-FM, Houstons first Spanish language FM station, in 1969, the stations original owner, Felix Morales, sold station for $175,000 in cash to Woody Sudbrink. The call letters were changed to KFMZ, with facilities located on the top of the Pasadena State Bank building at only a few hundred watt signal. Due to complaints from KFMK, the calls were changed to KYED, airing religious programming during the day. Soon after this upgrade, Sudbrink sold KYND for over $2 million, KYND grew to be the dominant beautiful music outlet in Houston, and in 1976 became the first FM radio station to top the Houston radio ratings. In the late summer of 1982, KYND moved from 92.5 MHz to 92.9 MHz to accommodate the incoming 92.1 FM in Seabrook, on July 2,1982, The New 79Q was launched on 790 AM KULF with a Top 40 format. The morning show was composed of John Lander and the Q-Morning Zoo, the station acquired the KKBQ callsign on August 13,1982. The stations owners decided to add the Top 40 format to KYND, the beautiful music format on 92.9 was beginning to see a decline in ratings as younger listeners thought of the format as elevator music. On December 29,1982, at 6,00 A. M, CST, Houstons Stereo Combination was born as KYND became The New 93KBQ, simulcasting part of the day on KKBQ-AM. The first song played was Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, the same song was used for the launch of WHTZ in New York City on August 2,1983. The FM acquired the KKBQ-FM call letters two months later in February 1983, later on, the station rebranded, first as 93FM, and finally to the more famous 93Q, in 1986. Incidentally, in the early years on FM, listeners were heard during call-ins erroneously referring to the station as Q93 or 93Q. For a time, the AM station ran the show live from the FM. The rest of the day the two ran the same playlist, but slightly delayed on the AM side, which ran identical IDs, promos. This practice continued until the late 1980s, when it became a full-time simulcast, the simulcast would continue until January 16,1998, when the AM flipped to adult standards
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KKYX
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KKYX is a classic country music radio station owned by Cox Radio. It is licensed to, and headquartered in, San Antonio, the station also carries play-by-play of the San Antonio Missions of the Texas League. Its studios are located in Northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center complex, KKYX morning personality Jerry King is also a member of the Country DJ Hall Of Fame. KKYX initially signed on the air as KTAP in 1926 and it became KABC, then KGBS, KENS, and KBAT in the 1960s. The current KKYX call-sign finally came on September 4,1972 and it became a major outlet for country music that serves much of south Texas. During the 1970s and early 1980s, KKYX was ranked one of the top ten country music stations in the United States. It currently broadcasts a country music format, similar to that of WSM AM650 in Nashville, Tennessee. KKYX has a large coverage area, covering a large area of southern Texas, including the entire San Antonio and Austin radio markets, along with areas around Victoria. Grade B coverage can be received in the Corpus Christi and Houston areas, about 100 counties were claimed to be part of the KKYX listening area
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KONO-FM
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KONO-FM is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Helotes, Texas and it serves Greater San Antonio. It is owned by Cox Radio and airs a classic hits radio format and its studios are located in Northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center complex, and the transmitter site is off Galm Road in Helotes near the Government Canyon State Natural Area. KONO-FM features a playlist of hit songs from co-owned KONO s long history of Top 40 music from the 1970s and 1980s, KONO-FM uses the slogan San Antonios Greatest Hits. Playlist artists include The Eagles, The Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Hall and Oates and others with a few songs from the 1960s, at Christmas, the station goes back to the 1950s for several holiday classics. Including the 1994 and 2006 songs in Holiday Christmas, KONO-FM first signed on the air on February 18,1971 as KNAF-FM, sister station to 910 KNAF in Fredericksburg, Texas. At first it simulcast the country format on the AM station. It later took the call letters KFAN, as an adult album alternative station, the station then moved to the San Antonio media market as KONO-FM, simulcasting 860 KONO from May 1990 until KONO changed its format to sports radio in January 2014. During that time KBKK107.9 FM in Johnson City, about a year later it acquired the KFAN-FM call sign. Query the FCCs FM station database for KONO Radio-Locator information on KONO Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KONO
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KRAV-FM
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KRAV-FM, known as Mix 96 - Todays Best Music, is a radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by Cox Radio. The station plays a mix of pop music from the 1980s, 1990s, the stations call letters are taken from the name of long-time owner George Kravis. Kravis sold the station to Cox in 1996, the station began as an easy listening station in the 1960s and flipped to a Hot AC format in 1976 as FM96. Its studios are located in South Tulsa and the transmitter is in the Osage Reservation north of Sand Springs, mornings - K. C. Middays - Jenny Lee Afternoons - Nate Nights - Vito at Night. Weekends - Ray Wilson Weather and news provided by Co-owned television station Fox23 KOKI Cox Media Group Mix96
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KRMG (AM)
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KRMG is a conservative news/talk radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and airs nationally syndicated talk shows by Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Clark Howard, Brian Kilmeade, Dana Loesch. In addition to its AM signal, the simulcasts on KRMG-FM102.3. Its studios are located in South Tulsa and the transmitter is southwest of Sand Springs, other Tulsa stations owned by Cox Media Group include KRMG-FM, KRAV-FM, KWEN, KOKI, KMYT-TV and KJSR. KRMG was founded by Kerr-McGee oil company partners Robert S, kerr, at the time a US Senator, wanted a station that would cover both Tulsa and Oklahoma City. KRMG had to protect co-channel stations to the north and south, thus, KRMG was a Middle-of-the-road music station from the 1950s through the 1970s, when it adopted a full-service adult contemporary format. In the 1990s, the station dropped music altogether and made the transition to the current news talk format, the station also carries Fox News. KRMG is credited with the development of Tulsas River Parks, the station first hosted the Great Raft Race in 1973. It was a race down the Arkansas River from Sand Springs to Tulsa. It was the first major event to attract people to the Arkansas River, the River Parks authority was formed in 1974 to develop the area. KRMG is a Fox News affiliate, weather and news partnership with Cox Co-owned television station Fox23 KOKI-TV. Former KRMG hosts include John Erling, Ann Williams, Dianna Proffitt, Dick Andert, Jerry Vaughn, Watson Jelks, Johnny Martin, Trey Callaway, Rob Hough, in the KRMG Newsroom, ABCs Bob Brown and CNNs Bob Losure once served as reporters. Frank Powers now in Jacksonville, Fla, Rand LaVonn was news director in the late 80s and he is now in Dallas where he volunteered as President of PRSA Dallas in 2013 and President of the Press Club of Dallas from 2000-01. LaVonn was a Communications Manager for electric and gas utilities in the Dallas region, richard Dowdell was a reporter and anchor for KRMG News for over 30 years. First person interview conducted on March 5,2009, with Ken Greenwood, former station manager and founder of Great Raft Race
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KRMG-FM
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KRMG-FM is a conservative news/talk radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and airs nationally syndicated talk shows by Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Clark Howard, Brian Kilmeade, Dana Loesch. The stations weekday morning show The KRMG Morning News is hosted by Dan Potter, the stations weekday afternoon show The KRMG Evening News is hosted by Dick Loftin. Its studios are located in South Tulsa and the transmitter is in the Osage Reservation north of Sand Springs, KRMG maintains the only staffed 24-hours newsroom in Tulsa. Formerly,102.3 was known as Spirit 102.3, the station played a mix of Christian adult contemporary music from the 1980s through 2009, when it was dropped for a simulcast of sister KRMG. KRMG is a Fox News affiliate, with local weather provided by television station KOKI. KTOW was sold in the mid-1990s to Bill Payne and the format was changed to country as KTFX which had formerly been at 103.3 and was also owned by Payne. Cox Radio purchased KTFX-102.3 from Payne and changed the format to music as KRTQ Rock 102.3 to compete against heritage rocker KMOD-FM. In 2005 KRTQ dropped its format and changed to Contemporary Christian music as KKCM. On Monday, March 16,2009, the Contemporary Christian format was dropped for a simulcast of sister KRMG, the Contemporary Christian format can still be heard on KWEN-HD2 and on Cox Digital Cable channel 962. KRMG also simulcasts on Cox Communications digital cable channel 960 in Tulsa
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