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Cox Communications

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Cox Communications, also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Communications providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. Cox offers replays of ABC and NBC programming in communications some markets while Comcast includes offerings BBC America and CBS.

The subsidiary company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation (later renamed to Cox Communications), was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the L-3 Communications New York Stock Exchange. In 2004, Cox Enterprises announced its intention to purchase those shares of Cox Communications which it did not already own. Cox offers video on demand service in the majority of its markets under the name On Demand.

On Demand offerings are fairly standardized, portal based, carry VODnets like The Ski Channel, and in some markets include High Definition. A $6.6 Billion tender offer was completed in December of that year, and Cox Communications has been a wholly owned subsidiary ever since.

Various technologies, including circuit switched and VoIP systems are used depending on service areas. The phasing out of Digital Max in 2008 was followed by the introduction of the current Cox mascots, the Digis, little digital helpmates featured in many of Cox Communications brand commercials.

It is the third-largest One of its prominent marketing trademarks is a fictional animated spokesman character named Digital Max, used from 2005 through 2008. Cox initially launched High Speed Internet in 1996 in its Orange County system. Cox offers telephone service in the majority of its services areas.

. This was the second time Cox was taken private by Cox Enterprises. Cox distributes standard definition and high definition cable television programming, including Digital Cable. Cox offers digital video recorder service, provided using Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta or Moxi equipment depending on the local market.

Cox offers four levels of High Speed Internet in all of its markets, Economy, Value, Preferred and Premier. The new little helpers, dressed in all white with blue goggles and hands, closely resemble the main character from the 1982 arcade game, Dig Dug . Cox Enterprises expanded into the cable television industry in 1962 by purchasing a number of cable systems in Lewistown, Lock Haven and Tyrone, Pennsylvania, followed by systems in California, Oregon and Washington.