| 2004 |
- Cox Digital Telephone receives J.D. Power and Associates’ Highest Honor in Local and Bundled Long Distance Telephone Customer Satisfaction.
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| 2003 |
- J.D. Power and Associates names Cox the top telephone provider in the Western Region.
- PC Magazine awards Cox High Speed Internet the Readers’ Choice Award.
- Launches new services including high-definition television service, digital video recorders and entertainment-on-demand in select markets.
- Launches Cox Digital Telephone throughout the entire service area in Tucson, Ariz., making it the first full-market launch of phone service in Cox history.
- Launches first rollout of phone service via Voice over Internet Protocol technology in Roanoke, Va.
- Cox Business Services surpasses the 100,000-customer milestone.
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| 2002 |
- Builds its own Internet protocol network in five months and launches Cox High Speed Internet.
- Reaches milestone of 500,000 digital telephone customers.
- Launches HDTV in Omaha, Neb., Las Vegas and Phoenix.
- Launches FreeZone, the first video-on-demand advertising channel.
- Named Operator of the Year by Multichannel News and Communications Technology magazines.
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| 2001 |
- Launches Entertainment-on-Demand in San Diego and Hampton Roads, Va.
- At the fifth anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Cox delivered on the promise of competition with 250,000 digital telephone; 500,000 high-speed Internet; 850,000 digital cable; and 650,000 bundled customers.
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| 2000 |
- Acquires additional systems including Tulsa, Okla., and Baton Rouge, La.
- Establishes Cox Business Services as a formal business unit.
- Adds 910,000 revenue-generating units (RGUs) of new digital video, telephone and high-speed Internet access services totaling 1.6 million RGUs since the new services began in 1996.
- Enters the FORTUNE 500 with $3.5 billion in annual revenues.
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| 1999 |
- Acquires more than 2.1 million customers from Gannet Co., AT&T, TCA Cable, and Media General Inc., resulting in nearly 6 million customers in 18 states (including systems in Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Texas).
- Acquires Northern Virginia system.
- Again wins the Interop Infr@structure Award for Most Innovative Cable Company.
- Adds 550,000 RGUs.
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| 1998 |
- Acquires Tucson, Ariz., system.
- Wins the Interop Infr@structure Award for Most Innovative Cable Company.
- Purchases cable operations in Las Vegas, making it the largest cable television operator in the Southwest.
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| 1997 |
- Completes two trades of the cable systems with Tele-Communications Inc. and U.S. West Media Group. The system swaps significantly expand the size of the systems in Hampton Roads, Va.; New England; Omaha, Neb.; Phoenix; and Louisiana.
- Launches Cox Digital Cable in Orange County, Calif.
- Launches Cox Digital Telephone in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
- Orange County becomes first cable system in the nation to deliver high-speed Internet access, local and long-distance switched telephone service, and digital video to customers over one broadband network, from one company.
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| 1996 |
- Launches Cox@Home in Orange County, Calif.
- Launches Sprint PCS in San Diego.
- Announces partnership with Frontier Corporation to offer long distance phone service.
- Congress passes the 1996 Telecommunications Act, deregulating the industry and encouraging additional competition in the telecommunications industry.
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| 1995 |
- Acquires Times Mirror Cable Television, increasing the number of customers served from 1.8 million to 3.2 million, with new customers in Phoenix; Orange County, Calif.; Palos Verdes, Calif.; and other markets.
- The company drops “Cable” from its name, becoming Cox Communications Inc.
- Becomes a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Forms the Sprint Telecommunications Venture with Sprint, TCI and Comcast, and wins licenses to deliver PCS wireless communications in 31 major metro areas.
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| 1994 |
- Establishes a partnership with Times Mirror Co. to develop programming, resulting in the creation of Outdoor Life and Speedvision networks.
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| 1993 |
- Delivers cable and telephone service in the United Kingdom through a partnership with SBC Communications.
- First cable operator to test the delivery of PRODIGY online services via cable, in San Diego
- Establishes the company’s first National Model Technology School in Chula Vista, Calif.
- Launches Fibernet, an alternate access business, in Hampton Roads, Va.
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| 1992 |
- Makes the world’s first personal communication services (PCS) phone call, resulting in Pioneer’s Preference Award from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- Named Operator of the Year by Cablevision magazine.
- First cable company to invest in Teleport Communications Group.
- Congress passes the 1992 Cable Act, re-regulating the industry.
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| 1991 |
- Partners with four cable operators to establish direct broadcast satellite company PRIMESTAR and begins offering service in Cox markets.
- Helps create UK Gold, a channel featuring classic British programming for the U.K. market.
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| 1990 |
- Cox Enterprises tops $2 billion in revenues for first time.
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| 1989 |
- Reaches 1.5 million customers.
- Becomes a franchisee of Blockbuster Home Video.
- Becomes first cable operator to establish company-wide customer service standards.
- Becomes a founding member of Cable in the Classroom.
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| 1988 |
- Builds its own Internet protocol network in five months and launches Cox High Speed Internet
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| 1987 |
- Launches Home Premiere Television, providing customers access to first-run movies at the same time they’re available at home video locations.
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| 1986 |
- Begins offering pay-per-view as a regular service.
- Initial investment in Discovery Communications.
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| 1985 |
- Public shares of Cox Cable Communications are merged into Cox Enterprises Inc., making it a private company.
- James O. Robbins is named President of Cox Cable Communications.
- Conducts its first customer service survey.
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| 1984 |
- Cox Broadcasting spins off its cable operations and launches Cox Cable Communications Inc.
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| 1982 |
- Presents Cox’s first pay-per-view event (Larry Holmes v. Gerry Cooney heavyweight boxing match).
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| 1981 |
- CableRep, the advertising sales division of Cox Cable, is established.
- Begins testing INDAX (Interactive Data Exchange) in San Diego. INDAX was precursor to interactive television.
- Launches systems in New Orleans; Omaha, Neb.; and Cranston-Johnson, R.I.
- Reaches 1 million customers.
- Uses fiber-optic cable to transport video signals for the first time in Great Neck, N.Y.
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| 1978 |
- Presents the Larry Campbell family in Roanoke, Va., with a new color television as the company’s 500,000th customer.
- Acquires Oklahoma City system.
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| 1977 |
- Acquires systems in Humboldt, Calif., and Hampton Roads, Va.
- General Electric proposes a purchase of Cox Broadcasting and its divisions, including Cox Cable, Cox Television and Cox Radio.
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| 1976 |
- Begins using satellite technology to access programming.
- Purchases Pensacola, Fla., system.
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| 1975 |
- Purchases Roanoke, Va., system.
- Serving 386,861 customers, 765 employees.
- Average customer bill $6.47.
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| 1974 |
- Begins testing home shopping through cable in four systems .
- Purchases 30 percent stake in Denmark cable system.
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| 1973 |
- Acquires majority interest in suburban Hartford, Conn., (New England) franchises.
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| 1972 |
- Total customers: 262,333.
- Acquires Cleveland cable system.
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| 1971 |
- FCC requires local origination programming.
- Builds first cable system in the Quint Cities of Davenport and Betendorf, Iowa, and Moline, East Moline and Silvas, Ill.
- Cox Cable Communications stock moves from over-the-counter trading to the American Stock Exchange (Symbol CXC).
- Acquires Santa Barbara, Calif., system.
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| 1970 |
- Acquires Lubbock, Texas, system.
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| 1969 |
- Acquires Telesystems Corporation
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| 1968 |
- Acquires Ocala, Fla., system
- Cox Cable Communications is incorporated to consolidate Cox’s cable television interests
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| 1967 |
- Acquires full ownership of San Diego system
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| 1966 |
- Acquires Bakersfield, Calif., system
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| 1965 |
- Purchases point-to-point microwave common carrier system
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| 1964 |
- Cox Broadcasting Corporation (later Cox Communications) established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange
- Acquires the Macon, Ga., system
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| 1962 |
- Cox enters the cable television business, purchasing systems in Lewistown, Lock Haven and Tyrone, Pa., followed by systems in California, Oregon and Washington
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