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The auto manufacturing sector in metropolitan Atlanta has suffered setbacks
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| The auto manufacturing sector in metropolitan Atlanta has suffered setbacks recently, including the shutdown of Ford Motor Company's Atlanta Assembly plant in Hapeville in 2006. Kia, however, has broken ground on anew assembly plant near West Point, Georgia. The city is a major cable television programming center. Ted Turner began the Turner Broadcasting System media empire in Atlanta, where he bought a UHF station that eventually became WTBS. Turner established the headquarters of the Cable News Network at CNN Center, adjacent today to Centennial Olympic Park. As his company grew, its other channels – the Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TNT, Turner South, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Headline News, and CNN Airport Network – centered their operations in Atlanta as well. Cox Enterprises has substantial media holdings in and beyond Atlanta. Its Cox Communications division is the nation's third‐largest cable television service provider the company also publishes over a dozen daily newspapers in the United States, Including The Atlanta Journal‐Constitution. WSB – the flagship station of Cox Radio – was the first AM radio station in the South. Atlanta is also home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Adjacent to Emory University, with a staff of nearly 15,000 (Including 6,000 contractors and 840 Commissioned Corps officers) in 170 occupations, Including engineers, entomologists, epidemiologists, biologists, physicians, veterinarians, behavioral scientists, nurses, medical technologists, economists, health communicators, toxicologists, chemists, computer scientists, and statisticians. The Atlanta‐Sandy Springs‐Marietta, GA MSA is made up from Barrow County, Bartow County, Butts County, Carroll County, Cherokee County, Clayton County, Cobb County, Coweta County, Dawson County, DeKalb County, Douglas County, Fayette County, Forsyth County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Haralson County, Heard County, Henry County, Jasper County, Lamar County, Meriwether County, Newton County, Paulding County, Pickens County, Pike County, Rockdale County, Spalding County, and Walton County. Download 0.84 Mb. Share with your friends:
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