Cox Interactive Media Promotes Michael Q. Parker to Group Vice President.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999-- Michael Q. Parker has been promoted to group vice president of Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia), the company announced today. The announcement was made by Peter Winter, president of CIMedia. As group vice president, Parker will oversee CIMedia studios in Atlanta (www.accessatlanta.com), New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded (www.insideneworleans.com), West Palm Beach (www.gopbi.com) and Miami's SoFla.com (www.sofla.com). Additionally, specialty sites BlackFamilies.com (www.blackfamilies.com), FASTBALL.com (www.fastball.com), and GreatOutdoors.com (www.greatoutdoors.com) will be part of his responsibility. "Michael's business expertise and strong marketing focus have been integral to CIMedia's explosive growth to more than 25 Internet brands in key Cox markets nationwide," said Winter. "We are confident that the sites for which he is now directly responsible will grow in audience share, ad sales and overall profitability." Before his promotion to group vice president, Parker served as CIMedia vice president of marketing. In that capacity, he headed up all marketing, research, advertising and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for CIMedia's network of city and specialty sites. Parker formerly served as circulation marketing director for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Prior to that he served in various marketing positions for General Mills  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . , Inc., The Regina Company; and McCormick Spice Company. Parker holds A.B. and M.P.A. degrees from University of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. - Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. from Atlanta University. Cox Interactive Media network includes 25 city sites and three specialty sites, BlackFamilies.com, FASTBALL.com and GreatOutdoors.com. CIMedia, (www.cimedia.com) founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. ), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly-traded Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc.) and publicly traded Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Inc. (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in addition to Cox Interactive Media. The company is also the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial services, government auctions, online services and price guides. NOTE TO EDITORS: A downloadable photo of Parker is available in CIMedia's Electronic Media Kit at http://www.businesswire.com/emk/ph_ci.htm |
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