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87-486: The Cox Business Convention Center (CBCC) was originally named Tulsa Assembly Center. It was later renamed Maxwell Convention Center after former mayor James L. Maxwell. In February 2013, Cox Communications acquired the naming rights to the facility and renamed it the Cox Business Center. In 2020, "Convention" was added to the name. The CBCC began renovations to convert the arena into a banquet hall in 2018, with

174-829: A Built Ford Tough Series event at the Convention Center between 2005 and 2008; since 2009, the event has been held at the BOK Center. From 2009 through 2012, the Convention Center was the home arena for the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League . In 2013, the team returned to the SpiritBank Event Center in nearby Bixby . In March 2012, the now-defunct Oklahoma Defenders of the American Professional Football League played their first game at

261-412: A saddle blanket ." To supplement income the family picked cotton for other farmers. "I picked cotton for $ 1.25 a hundred pounds," Campbell said. "If you worked your tail off, you could pick 80 or 90 pounds a day." Campbell started playing guitar at age 4 after his father gave him a Sears -bought five-dollar guitar as a gift, with his uncle Boo teaching him the basics of how to play. Most of his family

348-636: A session musician . That October, he joined the Champs . By January 1961, Campbell had found a daytime job at publishing company American Music, writing songs and recording demos. Because of these demos Campbell soon was in demand as a session musician and became part of a group of studio musicians later known as the Wrecking Crew . Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys , Bobby Darin , Frank Sinatra , Ricky Nelson , Dean Martin , Nat King Cole ,

435-474: A 3G wireless network, and would instead offer Sprint service to half of its current footprint and operate as a Sprint MVNO by the end of 2011. On November 15, 2011, Cox Communications announced it would halt sales of all its wireless branded products and existing Cox branded wireless operations would be decommissioned by March 30, 2012. Cox eventually also retracted its plans to offer wireless services reselling Sprint service as an MVNO. On January 1, 2000, Cox

522-415: A free preview of the game's Spanish-language broadcaster, ESPN Deportes , over Super Bowl weekend. The next day, Cox reached a new deal with Nexstar, and the stations were restored. In 2020, Cox lowered the upstream bitrates of entire neighborhoods from 35 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s, because they determined that individual users within the neighborhoods had excessive usage. On December 17, 2015, Cox

609-483: A local nightclub. In 1954, at age 17, Campbell moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico , to join his uncle's band, known as Dick Bills and the Sandia Mountain Boys. He also appeared there on his uncle's radio show and on K Circle B Time , the local children's program on KOB television . It was there that he met his first wife, whom he married when he was 18 and she was 16. In 1958, Campbell formed his own band,

696-442: A new retransmission deal. The contract had expired on December 31, 2015, but the two companies allowed talks to continue until January 22, 2016. The channels were replaced by a screen which accused Nexstar of "demanding a significant fee increase". In Las Vegas, where the dispute threatened to black out Super Bowl 50 due to local CBS station KLAS-TV being affected by the dispute, Cox announced on February 3, 2016, that it would offer

783-531: A regular on network television. He co-starred in a made-for-television movie , Strange Homecoming (1974), with Robert Culp and up-and-coming teen idol Leif Garrett . He hosted a number of television specials, including 1976's Down Home, Down Under with Olivia Newton-John . He co-hosted the American Music Awards from 1976 to 1978 and headlined the 1979 NBC special Glen Campbell: Back to Basics with guest-stars Seals and Crofts and Brenda Lee . He

870-595: A scheduled completion date in 2020. The CBCC's banquet hall was the largest in the state at 30,000 square feet. However, the venue's $ 55 million renovations replaced the arena with the Grand Hall, a second Banquet space of 41,470 square feet, and 38 foot ceilings. It also added a new South Plaza at the main entrance on the east side. This includes a three-story glass atrium, valet drop-off, and over 4,000 square feet of pre-function event space. The venue now offers over 275,000 square feet of total rentable space. The renovation

957-450: A second time, both parties agreed to a confidential settlement. On July 31, 2018, a billion dollar lawsuit was filed against Cox in the same court, before the same judge that handled the BMG case, by 53 record labels, including Sony , Universal , and Warner Brothers . On December 19, 2019, the jury ruled against Cox and awarded $ 1 billion to the record labels. On June 2, 2020, the judge ruled

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1044-405: A small digital adapter (termed a Cox Mini-Box ) for televisions that were previously connected to an analog only signal. This same notification was extended to all other major markets in 2016. Cox offers digital video recorder service, provided using Motorola , Scientific-Atlanta , Cisco , or previously Moxi equipment depending on the local market. Cox offers video on demand service in

1131-561: A wireless plan it offered which returned money for unused minutes which it called "Moneyback Minutes." This allowed customers to receive up to $ 20 per month added back to their bill in the event that the customer had leftover minutes. Cox Wireless offered a full range of devices manufactured by Motorola , Samsung , HTC , Kyocera , and LG . Cox Wireless utilized Sprint 's voice and 3G networks and also had planned to build out their own 4G LTE network. On May 24, 2011, Cox Communications announced it would decommission its plans to build

1218-463: Is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the United States, serving approximately 6.5 million customers, including 2.9 million digital cable subscribers, 3.5 million Internet subscribers, and almost 3.2 million digital telephone subscribers, making it the seventh-largest telephone carrier in

1305-415: Is featured in the 2014 documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me , was released on September 30, 2014, with the documentary following on October 24. On January 15, 2015, Campbell and fellow songwriter Julian Raymond were nominated for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards . In March 2016, it was confirmed that Campbell was in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease. On August 30, 2016, during

1392-659: Is part of Vision Tulsa, a community improvement initiative funded by a 0.6% increased sales tax in Tulsa County. The Bank of Oklahoma Center, or BOK Center , which the City of Tulsa owns, is the sister venue to CBCC, with both being managed by Oak View Group. The BOK Center is a 19,199-seat arena and home to the ECHL Tulsa Oilers . It also hosts major concerts and entertainment shows. It was designed to accommodate arena football, hockey, basketball, concerts, and similar events. The BOK

1479-668: Is the former home of the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association and the Tulsa Talons of the Arena Football League . It cost $ 178 million in public funds to build, as well as $ 18 million in privately funded upgrades. The center was completed on August 30, 2008. The original Tulsa Roughnecks used the CBCC's building for indoor soccer in 1978. In November 2013, it became

1566-434: Is the fourth-largest provider of business Ethernet services in the U.S.-based on customer ports and the company ranked highest among small and mid-size business data service providers in J.D. Power and Associates telecommunications studies in 2006, 2008 and 2010. In 2013, Cox Business had the third largest business-facing enterprise by revenue (of cable providers who provide business services), with $ 1.2 billion in revenue as of

1653-751: The Billboard Hot 100. In 1968, Campbell released "Wichita Lineman", a song written by Jimmy Webb . It was recorded with backing from members of the Wrecking Crew and appeared on his 1968 album of the same name. It reached number 3 on the US pop chart, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks. In addition, the song also topped the American country music chart for two weeks, and the adult contemporary chart for six weeks. The 1969 song " True Grit " by composer Elmer Bernstein and lyricist Don Black, and sung by Campbell, who co-starred in

1740-492: The Church of Christ , and Campbell's brother Lindell became a Church of Christ minister. In 2011, Campbell said his mother was Irish ; although his mother was born in the United States, her family had emigrated from County Tipperary . The family lived on a farm, where they barely managed, by growing cotton, corn, watermelons and potatoes. "We had no electricity," he said, and money was scarce. "A dollar in those days looked as big as

1827-680: The Cox Media Group , which focuses on radio stations and television stations ), was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange . The company was renamed to Cox Communications in 1982. It was taken private by Cox Enterprises in 1985. In 1993, Cox began offering telecommunication services to businesses it was the first multiple system cable operator to do so. This eventually grew into Cox Business, which now represents $ 1 billion in annual revenue. In 1995, Cox acquired

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1914-608: The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors found Cox Communications guilty of violating an agreement with the county which stated that all homes served by Cox within Fairfax County would be digital ready with the new fiber optic network by June 2003. When this term expired with less than 30% of the county having been completed, the Board of Supervisors decided to fine Cox $ 100 per day from the originally agreed completion date, until work

2001-687: The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He owned trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and took the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. Campbell played a supporting role in the film True Grit (1969), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang

2088-604: The Times-Mirror cable properties and as a result became a publicly traded company once again. In 1997, Cox became the first multiple system cable operator to offer phone services to customers following the 1996 Telecom Act. Two years later in 1999, Cox acquired the cable television assets of Media General in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg, Virginia. The following year, Cox Communications acquired Multimedia Cablevision with assets in Kansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina. In 2004,

2175-764: The Travel Channel , related assets, and $ 1.3 billion. In 2007, DiversityInc magazine named Cox Communications #25 in its Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Cox climbed to the sixth position on Diversity Inc.'s 2008 list. Also in 2008, Cox was named #8 on the Top 10 Companies for African Americans. Two years later, on November 19, 2010, Cox began offering wireless services in Orange County, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and, in Hampton Roads, Virginia. In February 2011, Cox Communications completed its Alternative Energy Project which included two fuel cell installations at each of

2262-712: The Universal Wrestling Federation , until shortly after the UWF was purchased by Jim Crockett Promotions in 1987. It hosted the Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament title game in 1982 and from 1984 to 1987. It was also the home to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane basketball team until the program moved to the Reynolds Center in 1998. The Professional Bull Riders circuit hosted

2349-512: The title song , which was nominated for an Academy Award . Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, in Billstown , a tiny community near Delight in Pike County, Arkansas , to John Wesley Campbell (a sharecropper ) and Carrie Dell (née Stone) Campbell. Campbell was of Scottish descent and was the seventh son of 12 children. As a child he almost died from drowning. His family went to

2436-466: The "Cox vs Fox" dispute) that occurred around the same time, customers in Hampton Roads, Virginia lost access to LIN TV-owned Fox affiliate WVBT (channel 43) on January 1, 2000; retransmission talks between WVBT and Cox broke down, reportedly due to a demand by WVBT to be placed somewhere between channels 2 and 14 (it had been broadcast on channel 43). Cox refused to move WVBT to a lower channel number;

2523-535: The 10th Annual ACM Honors, Keith Urban , Blake Shelton and others performed a medley of Glen Campbell's songs in tribute to him. His wife Kim accepted the Career Achievement Award on his behalf. Alice Cooper described him as being one of the five best guitar players in the music industry. Campbell's final album, Adiós , featuring twelve songs from his final 2012–13 sessions, was announced in April 2017. It

2610-449: The 10th grade at 14 to work in Houston alongside his brothers, installing insulation and later working at a gas station. Not satisfied with that kind of work, Campbell started playing music at fairs and church picnics and singing gospel hymns in the church choir. He was able to find spots performing on local radio stations, and after his parents moved to Houston, he made some appearances at

2697-503: The 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album. Born in Billstown, Arkansas , Campbell began his professional career as a studio musician in Los Angeles, spending several years playing with

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2784-408: The 2016-2017 program, 15 nonprofits received a total of $ 150,000. They were: Other state branches of Cox Communications also donate money annually through a Community Investment Grant program. The money comes from employees and goes to 501(c)(3) organizations. The organizations will differ from state to state, and year to year, but usually also have a focus on education, technology, social issues, and

2871-745: The Contour naming. Cox stated that at least 1 million subscribers were on the X1-based Contour as of October 2017. In 2016, Cox Business reached 3 billion in annual revenue. In February 2023, it was announced Cox had acquired the New York -headquartered managed cloud services company, Logicworks for an undisclosed sum. Cox Communications Virginia created the philanthropic Cox Charities to annually provide grants to nonprofits serving youth. The organizations must have education programs that focus on science and technology, literacy, mentoring and other areas. In

2958-604: The Hot 100 in a 1968 Vogues cover. Campbell also formed the Gee Cees with former bandmembers from the Champs, performing at the Crossbow Inn in Van Nuys . The Gee Cees, too, released a single on Crest, the instrumental "Buzz Saw", which did not chart. In 1962, Campbell signed with Capitol Records . After minor initial success with "Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry", his first single for

3045-534: The Hot 100 with a version of Buffy Sainte-Marie 's " Universal Soldier ". Asked about the pacifist message of the song, he said that "people who are advocating burning draft cards should be hung". Campbell continued as a session musician, playing guitar on the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds , among other recordings. In April of that year, he joined Rick Nelson on a tour through the Far East, again playing bass. When follow-up singles did not do well, and Capitol

3132-546: The Monkees , Nancy Sinatra , Merle Haggard , Jan and Dean , Bing Crosby , Phil Spector , Sammy Davis Jr. , Doris Day , Bobby Vee , The Everly Brothers , Shelley Fabares , The Cascades , Paul Revere & the Raiders , Wayne Newton , The First Edition , The Kingston Trio , Roger Miller , Gene Clark , Lou Rawls , Claude King , Lorne Greene , Ronnie Dove , and Elvis Presley . He befriended Presley when he helped record

3219-609: The Time I Get to Phoenix " (1967), " Dreams of the Everyday Housewife " (1968), " Wichita Lineman " (1968), " Galveston " (1969), " Rhinestone Cowboy " (1975), and " Southern Nights " (1977). In 1967, Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories. For "Gentle on My Mind", he received two awards in country and western ; "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop. Three of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards (2000, 2004, 2008), while Campbell himself won

3306-535: The Western Wranglers. "We worked hard," he said. "Six, sometimes seven nights a week. I didn't have my eye set on any specific goals or big dreams." He played with all kinds of genres, with different instrumentation and different styles. If it was a just and righteous world, Glen would be credited as one of the great, seminal influences of all time. He was a secret weapon in the armory of Sixties record producers. In 1960, Campbell moved to Los Angeles to become

3393-540: The album as well. The first single, a cover of Green Day 's " Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ", was released to radio in July 2008. In March 2010, Campbell announced his farewell album titled Ghost on the Canvas , which served as a companion to Meet Glen Campbell (2008). Following his late-2010 Alzheimer's diagnosis, Campbell embarked on a final "Goodbye Tour", with three of his children joining him in his backup band. He

3480-663: The arena. Several famous artists have performed at the center, including Aerosmith , Zig Ziglar , The Doors , The Rolling Stones , Elvis Presley , Bon Jovi , Louis Armstrong , Led Zeppelin , Charley Pride , Sonny & Cher , The Carpenters , B.B. King , Glen Campbell , Waylon Jennings , Cheech & Chong , Van Halen , and George Strait . 36°8′56″N 95°59′50″W  /  36.14889°N 95.99722°W  / 36.14889; -95.99722 Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation , Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable ),

3567-535: The arts. These programs can be found in Oklahoma (nearly $ 165,000 in 2017), Arkansas (nearly $ 100,000 in 2017), Nebraska and Iowa (nearly $ 90,000 in 2017), and the Southeast region, including parts of Louisiana, Florida's Gulf Coast, Central Florida and Middle Georgia. In 2004, Cox Enterprises announced its intention to purchase those shares of Cox Communications which it did not already own. A $ 6.6 billion tender offer

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3654-411: The bigger hit " By the Time I Get to Phoenix " later in 1967, and " I Wanna Live " and " Wichita Lineman " in 1968, remaining on Billboard's Top 100 charts for 15 weeks. He won four Grammy Awards for "Gentle on My Mind" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". In 1967, Campbell was also the uncredited lead vocalist on " My World Fell Down " by Sagittarius , a studio group. The song reached number 70 on

3741-459: The careers of Anne Murray and Jerry Reed , who were regulars on his Goodtime Hour program. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Campbell released a long series of singles and appeared in the movies True Grit (1969) with John Wayne and Kim Darby and had the lead role in Norwood (1970) with Kim Darby and Joe Namath . After the cancellation of his CBS series in 1972, Campbell remained

3828-513: The channel space was filled in the interim by pay channel HBO Family . It was not until February 5 of that year that the station resumed on Cox's Hampton Roads system (remaining on channel 43), after an agreement was reached during a ten-hour arbitration session. Cox did not offer rebates to its 335,000 subscribers in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Cleveland , Ohio, who also lost their Fox stations. On January 29, 2016, seventeen Nexstar Broadcasting stations were dropped by Cox after failing to reach

3915-420: The company's San Diego, CA and Rancho Santa Margarita, CA headquarters. Two separate PureCell System 400 kilowatt installations will generate enough onsite power to reduce the company's dependence of the local power grid and decrease its carbon footprint . In September 2011, Cox Home Security was added to their suite of products listed on their website. This new service uses advanced technologies similar to

4002-760: The country. Cox is headquartered at 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd in Sandy Springs, Georgia , U.S., in the Atlanta metropolitan area . It is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises . Cox Enterprises expanded into the cable television industry in 1962 by purchasing a number of cable systems in Lewistown , Lock Haven and Tyrone (all in Pennsylvania), followed by systems in California, Oregon and Washington . The subsidiary company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation (unrelated to

4089-482: The district court on December 27, 2021, alleging concealed evidence that came to light in a separate lawsuit by the record labels against Charter . This motion was denied on March 23, 2022. A ruling on the appeal to the Fourth Circuit is pending. One of Cox's marketing trademarks is a fictional animated "spokesman" character named " Digital Max ", used from 2005 through 2008. The phasing out of Digital Max in 2008

4176-529: The early 1990s. Campbell also served as an inspiration to Keith Urban , who cites Campbell as a strong influence on his performing career. In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame . Glen was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in the first group of inductees along side other members of the Wrecking Crew in 2007. It was announced in April 2008 that Campbell

4263-516: The group of instrumentalists later known as " The Wrecking Crew ". After becoming a solo artist, he placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart , Billboard Hot 100 , or Adult Contemporary Chart , of which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Among Campbell's hits are " Universal Soldier ", his first hit from 1965, along with " Gentle on My Mind " (1967), " By

4350-477: The height of his popularity, a 1970 biography by Freda Kramer, The Glen Campbell Story , was published. With Campbell's session-work connections, he hosted major names in music on his show, including the Beatles (on film), David Gates , Bread , the Monkees , Neil Diamond , Linda Ronstadt , Johnny Cash , Merle Haggard , Willie Nelson , Waylon Jennings , Roger Miller , and Mel Tillis . Campbell helped launch

4437-725: The home arena of the Tulsa Revolution of the Professional Arena Soccer League . The team relocated to the Expo Square Pavilion in January 2015. The center was home to the Central Hockey League Tulsa Oilers ice hockey team and the Tulsa Talons arena football team before the opening of the new BOK Center in 2008. It was a regular stop for Bill Watts ' Mid-South Wrestling and its successor,

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4524-416: The home security products offered by other MSOs such as Comcast . In August 2013, Cox launched a new television platform known as Contour, which features recommendations and a user profile system across multiple devices. In 2015, Cox licensed Comcast 's Xfinity X1 platform (which features more extensive integration of video streaming apps, and a voice control remote); it was deployed in 2016, maintaining

4611-461: The jury's verdict is not excessive but also ruled that damages should be issued per work, not per copyright, as a single song, such as a mashup , may have multiple copyrights. However, on January 12, 2021, the court backtracked on this point because Cox did not raise it during the jury trial, and thus upheld the $ 1 billion verdict. The case was appealed to the Fourth Circuit on May 24, 2021. While pending, Cox filed an additional motion for relief with

4698-555: The label, and "Kentucky Means Paradise", released by the Green River Boys featuring Glen Campbell, a string of unsuccessful singles and albums followed. By 1963 his playing and singing were heard on 586 recorded songs. He never learned to read music, but besides guitar, he could play the banjo, mandolin and bass. Fellow Wrecking Crew member Leon Russell said Campbell "was the best guitar player I'd heard before or since. Occasionally we'd play with 50- or 60-piece orchestras. His deal

4785-949: The majority of its markets under the name On Demand . On Demand offerings are fairly standardized, portal-based, and carry VODnets like The Ski Channel , and includes HD offerings and replays of major network series. As of 2013, Cox offers cable internet service to over 21.8 million people across 18 states, making it the 4th largest provider of cable internet service in the US (based on coverage area). Cox offers five levels of high-speed Internet in all of its markets: Starter (10  Mbit/s download/1 Mbit/s upload), Essential (50 Mbit/s download/3 Mbit/s upload), Preferred (150 Mbit/s download/10 Mbit/s upload), Ultimate (300/500 Mbit/s download/10 Mbit/s upload), and Gigablast (900 Mbit/s download/35 Mbit/s upload via coax and 1000 Mbit/s download/1000 Mbit/s upload via fiber). In certain markets they also offer two financial assist plans one being Straight Up, and

4872-440: The majority of its services areas. Various technologies, including circuit switched and hybrid VoIP systems, are used depending on service areas. Cox has won multiple J.D. Power and Associates awards for its telephone service. In 2010 Cox started offering a range of Home Automation and Security service to customers in its Tucson, Arizona market as a trial. In 2011, this product was expanded to Cox's entire Arizona market, and

4959-547: The movie , received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. After he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for television's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour variety show, Campbell was given his own weekly variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour , which ran from January 1969 through June 1972. The show's comedy writers included Steve Martin and Rob Reiner . At

5046-690: The name "G1GABLAST" in Phoenix , Las Vegas and Omaha , with plans to begin offering it in the rest of their service areas by the end of 2016. They also announced that they would double internet speeds for all customers at no cost at the same time. They began rolling out the new speeds in Phoenix in early October of the same year. In fall 2016, Cox first launched its Panoramic WiFi service in San Diego , Orange County and Santa Barbara , and it became available nationwide on June 13, 2017. Cox offers telephone service in

5133-699: The other Connect 2 Compete. Cox initially launched high-speed Internet in 1996 in its Orange County infrastructure. Cox licensed the PowerBoost technology from Comcast in 2007 and offers it on the Preferred, Premier, and Ultimate levels of service. Top service download speeds are between 15 and 300 Mbit/s. Cox High Speed Internet won the PC Magazine Readers' Choice Award for High Speed Internet in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2011. In 2014, Cox announced they would begin offering 1 Gbit/s internet speeds under

5220-554: The rooster in Don Bluth 's live action/animated film Rock-a-Doodle . In 1999 he was featured on VH1 's Behind the Music and on A&E Network 's Biography and a PBS "in concert" special in 2001. He also appeared on a number of CMT programs, where he ranked among their Greatest Men of Country Music. He is credited with giving Alan Jackson his first big break after Jackson recorded with Campbell's music publishing business in

5307-594: The second time in 2005. By November 1, 2005, Cox announced the sale of all of its Texas, Missouri, Mississippi and North Carolina properties, as well as some systems in Arkansas, California, Louisiana and Oklahoma to Cebridge Communications. 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

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5394-442: The soundtrack for Viva Las Vegas in 1964. He later said, "Elvis and I were brought up the same humble way – picking cotton and looking at the south end of a north-bound mule." In May 1961, he left the Champs and was subsequently signed by Crest Records , a subsidiary of American Music . His first solo release, " Turn Around, Look at Me ", a moderate success, peaked at number 62 on the Hot 100 in 1961 but reached number 7 on

5481-781: The third quarter of 2013. Cox Business is an early adopter of Voice over IP technology and, in 2007, Cox became the first cable provider in North America to deploy a fully owned and managed IP telephony service for businesses, Cox Business VoiceManager. Cox Business is expected to launch Managed IP PBX, SIP Trunking and IP Centrex services in 2011, allowing customers to more efficiently route voice traffic over Internet Protocol. Cox Business currently supports more than 800,000 business phone lines. Cox previously offered mobile phone and wireless services in four United States markets including Orange County, California, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Omaha, Nebraska. Cox marketed their wireless service as 'Unbelievably Fair' due to

5568-413: Was Campbell's largest-selling single and one of his best-known recordings, initially with over 2 million copies sold. Campbell had heard songwriter Larry Weiss' version while on tour of Australia in 1974. Both songs were in the October 4, 1975, Hot 100 top 10. "Rhinestone Cowboy" continues to be used in TV shows and films, including Desperate Housewives , Daddy Day Care , and High School High . It

5655-633: Was a guest on many network talk and variety shows, including Donny & Marie and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , where he performed "Rhinestone Cowboy". He also appeared on Cher , the Redd Foxx Comedy Hour , The Merv Griffin Show , The Midnight Special , DINAH! , Evening at Pops with Arthur Fiedler and The Mike Douglas Show . In the mid-1970s, he had more hits with " Rhinestone Cowboy ", " Southern Nights " (both U.S. number one hits), "Sunflower" (U.S. number 39) (written by Neil Diamond ), and " Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.) " (U.S. number 11). "Rhinestone Cowboy"

5742-428: Was also pulled from its Jonesboro, Arkansas , system (of the mentioned systems; only the Cleveland metropolitan area continues to be served by Cox; the Texas systems were later bought out by Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum ) and Comcast ; the Jonesboro system was sold to Suddenlink Communications in May 2006). The removal of those stations, which were temporarily replaced with premium service Starz! Family (which

5829-418: Was awarded 4 gold records along with a platinum award for wholesale sales in excess of $ 1,000,000 in Australia. "Southern Nights", by Allen Toussaint , his other number one pop-rock-country crossover hit, was generated with the help of Jimmy Webb and Jerry Reed , who inspired the famous guitar lick introduction to the song, which was the most-played jukebox number of 1977. From 1971 to 1983, Campbell

5916-631: Was completed in December of that year, and Cox Communications has been a wholly owned subsidiary ever since. 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. In February 2008, Cox started to implement switched digital video (SDV) technology in some of their markets. In late 2014, Cox started notifying customers in their Connecticut market that they would be moving to an All Digital Video platform, requiring

6003-407: Was completed in January 2006. 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. Also in 2004, Cox Communications announced plans to take the company private once again, expressing frustration in the shareholder's emphasis on short-term goals. The company was taken private for

6090-402: Was considering dropping Campbell from the label in 1966, he was teamed with producer Al De Lory . Together, they first collaborated on " Burning Bridges " which became a top 20 country hit in early 1967, and the album of the same name . Campbell and De Lory collaborated again on 1967's " Gentle on My Mind ", written by John Hartford , which was an overnight success. The song was followed by

6177-399: Was evident that he had relapsed in 2003 when he pleaded guilty in Arizona to aggravated drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident and spent 10 days in Maricopa County jail. On The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour television show, Campbell avoided political topics. Around this time, in interviews he described himself as "a registered Democrat ", but also said he "voted Republican

6264-399: Was followed by the introduction of the "Digeez", little digital helpmates featured in many of Cox Communications' brand commercials until 2013. In 2023, Cox Mobile introduced a CGI sheep named Annie. Glen Campbell Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in

6351-446: Was he didn't read [music], so they would play it one time for him, and he had it". From 1964 on, Campbell began to appear on television as a regular on Star Route , a syndicated series hosted by Rod Cameron , ABC's Shindig! and Hollywood Jamboree . From December 1964 to early March 1965, Campbell was a touring member of the Beach Boys , filling in for Brian Wilson , playing bass guitar and singing falsetto harmonies. He

6438-544: Was held responsible for the copyright infringements of its subscribers according to a ruling from a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia . The ISP was found guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered to pay music publisher BMG $ 25 million in damages. This verdict was reaffirmed by the judge on August 8, 2016. On February 14, 2017, Cox

6525-1064: Was involved in a retransmission consent dispute with News Corporation (the parent company of the Fox broadcast network, now owned by Fox Corporation ), pulling four Fox owned-and-operated stations, after retransmission consent talks between News Corp. and Cox broke down, reportedly because Fox had denied permission for Cox to broadcast programming on its O&O stations unless Cox gave it two channel slots on its digital cable service. The affected stations were WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio (now owned by Nexstar Media Group ), KTBC in Austin, Texas, KRIV in Houston, Texas, and KDFW in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, off its cable systems in those areas; another Fox O&O WHBQ-TV in Memphis (itself now owned by Imagicomm Communications )

6612-534: Was made available to subscribers for free), blacked out Fox programming to 425,000 Cox customers. The blackout lasted six days as the two sides came to an agreement on January 6, and the Fox-owned stations were brought back to the systems. Cox gave $ 1 refunds of their January cable bill to roughly 90,000 subscribers in Texas and Arkansas as compensation. In a separate dispute (clumped with the above dispute by media outlets as

6699-443: Was married four times and fathered six sons and three daughters: After his divorce from Sarah Barg Davis, Campbell began a relationship with fellow country artist Tanya Tucker . The relationship was marked by frequent tabloid gossip and articles. The couple recorded a number of songs together, including the single "Dream Lover", and they performed the national anthem together at the 1980 Republican National Convention . Campbell

6786-477: Was musical, he said. "Back home, everybody plays and sings." By the time he was 6 he was performing on local radio stations. Campbell continued playing guitar in his youth, with no formal training, and practiced when he was not working in the cotton fields. He developed his talent by listening to radio and records and considered Django Reinhardt among his most admired guitarists, later calling him "the most awesome player I ever heard." He dropped out of school in

6873-489: Was ordered to additionally pay $ 8.5 million in costs. On November 7, 2016, Cox appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and on February 1, 2018, the court overturned the $ 25 million verdict due to erroneous jury instructions but upheld its loss of safe harbor protections due to not having a meaningful repeat infringer policy. On August 27, 2018, before the case was scheduled to be tried for

6960-462: Was raised in the Church of Christ . In the 1980s, he joined a Baptist church in Phoenix along with his wife Kim. In a 2008 interview, Campbell said that they had been adherents of Messianic Judaism for two decades. Campbell began having problems with alcoholism and cocaine addiction in the 1970s. He credited his fourth wife Kim with helping him turn his life around. Campbell eventually stopped drinking alcohol and taking drugs in 1987. However, it

7047-629: Was released on June 9, 2017. Adiós was named by the UK's Official Charts Company as the best-selling country/Americana album of 2017 in Britain. In 2024, Glen Campbell Duets: Ghost on the Canvas Sessions was released. It is a reworked version of Campbell's farewell album, featuring newly recorded guest vocals performing posthumous duets with Campbell, from artists such as Carole King , Elton John , Eric Clapton , Hope Sandoval and Dolly Parton Campbell

7134-507: Was returning to his signature label, Capitol , to release his new album, Meet Glen Campbell . The album was released on August 19. With this album, he branched off in a different musical direction, covering tracks from artists such as Travis , U2 , Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Jackson Browne , and Foo Fighters . It was Campbell's first release on Capitol in over 15 years. Musicians from Cheap Trick and Jellyfish contributed to

7221-528: Was rolled out to additional markets over the next couple of years; it was then renamed as Cox Homelife in all markets. In December 2014, Cox Launched Cox Homelife in Louisiana. Cox Business provides voice, data and video services for more than 260,000 small and regional businesses, including health care providers, K-12 and higher education, financial institutions and federal, state and local government organizations. According to Vertical Systems Group, Cox Business

7308-622: Was the celebrity host of the Los Angeles Open , an annual professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour . Campbell made a cameo appearance in the 1980 Clint Eastwood movie Any Which Way You Can , for which he recorded the title song. From 1982 to 1983, he hosted a 30-minute syndicated music show, The Glen Campbell Music Show . Campbell gave up smoking in March 1992 and believed it improved his singing voice. In 1991, Campbell voiced Chanticleer

7395-463: Was the inspiration for the 1984 Dolly Parton / Sylvester Stallone movie Rhinestone . The main phrase of Campbell's recording was included in Dickie Goodman 's Jaws movie parody song "Mr. Jaws". Campbell also made a techno/pop version of the song in 2002 with UK artists Rikki & Daz and went to the top 10 in the UK with the dance version and related music video. In January 1975, Campbell

7482-406: Was then replaced on the Beach Boys' tours by new member Bruce Johnston . Brian Wilson produced and co-wrote a single for Campbell, " Guess I'm Dumb ", which failed to chart despite what writer David Howard called "a surging, elegant Burt Bacharach -inspired string and horn arrangement and Campbell's forlorn Roy Orbison -like vocal.". In 1965, he had his biggest solo hit yet, reaching number 45 on

7569-665: Was too ill to travel to Australia and New Zealand in the summer of 2012. His final show was on November 30, 2012, in Napa, California . After the end of the tour, Campbell entered the studio in Nashville to record what would be his final album, Adiós , which would not be revealed until five years later. According to his wife Kim, he wanted to preserve "what magic was left" in what would be his final recordings. In January 2013, Campbell recorded his final song, " I'm Not Gonna Miss You ", during what would be his last recording sessions. The song, which

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