Cox Media Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, is an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps. With $1.8 billion in revenues, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 86 radio stations, four metro newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services. Additionally, CMG owns and operates Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing companies in North America.
B98.5FM and B985.com – Atlanta’s Hot A/C brand and the home of The Vikki & Kelly Morning Show. Delivering women and the at work listener in an uncluttered and safe environment.
AM750 WSB and Now 95.5FM with wsbradio.com, Atlanta’s most dominant and influential radio brand, reaching nearly 1,000,000 quality listeners every week.
97.1 The River – Atlanta’s exclusive Classic Hits
KISS 104.1 – and kiss1041fm.com an adult contemporary brand helping your business target the $50 billion plus African-American community in a credible, safe environment.
As the first television news operation in the South, Channel 2 Action News continues its position of leadership and strength. While many local competitors have joined the picture over the years, Channel 2 maintains the leadership role in the market that puts it in the top tier of stations in the country.
With 5 ½ hours of local news each weekday and a total of 37 hours each week, Channel 2 Action News delivers a comprehensive “what’s happening now” picture of the community to its viewers. The amount of local news programming ensures a convenient time period for local news viewing for every lifestyle.
The station’s website averages 34 million page views from 2.2 million unique visitors each month. More than 600 thousand unique visitors surf over 4.4 million page views each month using their mobile and smart phones. In 2009, the station launched its own iPhone App to serve the growing percentage of iPhone users in the Atlanta market.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and its suburbs. The AJC, as it is called, is the flagship 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 delivery of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001. The AJC has its headquarters in Dunwoody, Georgia.
The Constitution won numerous Pulitzer Prizes. In 1931 it won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing corruption at the local level. In 1959, The Constitution won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for Ralph McGill’s editorial “A Church, A School….”. In 1967 it was awarded another Pulitzer Prize for Eugene Patterson’s editorials. In 1960, Jack Nelson won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, by exposing abuses at Milledgeville State Hospital for the mentally ill. In 1988 the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to the Constitution’s Doug Marlette. Mike Luckovich received a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and 2006. Cynthia Tucker also received a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
