East Coast Surfing Championships - Press Office - ECSC, the premier surfing contest and Pro-Am Surfing competition on the East Coast is the Southeast's best beach and entertainment festival located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The surfing competition and beach events also includes other water sports: skimboarding, volleyball, a boardwalk 5K run, Hooters swimsuit contest, street skateboard and ramp contests, and live bands and music on the beach.

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Maggie Douglas / Public Relations Chairman
email: publicrelations@surfecsc.com / phone: 757-557-6140
Contact Cox Communications: Doug Stroud 222-8545
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****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 2003 ****

Chesapeake, VA, August 12, 2003- Cox Communications announced today its sponsorship of the 41st Annual East Coast Surf Championship.

As the presenting sponsor, Cox will be at 2nd Street and the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach from August 21-24th. Live product demonstration of Cox High Speed Internet, Cox Digital Telephone and Cox Digital Cable will be available. Visitors can check out the latest home entertainment and home networking solutions from Motorola and enter to win dozens of Motorola prizes.

Football Hall-of Famer-Joe Theismann, brought to you by Motorola, will make an appearance on Saturday August 23 from 1 pm- 2:30 pm. Signed Footballs will be given away throughout the weekend.

Theismann was the winning quarterback in Super Bowl XVII, a two-time Pro Bowl player and the most productive quarterback in the history of the Washington Redskins. Since his retirement as a player, he has built a national reputation as an expert analyst on the game for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 1988 as a color analyst of all Sunday night nationally televised NFL games.

For more information about the event, visit www.cox.com/hr/ecsc

About Cox Communications
Cox Communications (NYSE: COX), a Fortune 500 company, is a multi-service broadband communications company with approximately 6.5 million total customers, including 6.3 million basic cable subscribers. Cox is the nation’s fourth-largest cable television provider, and offers both traditional analog video programming under the Cox Cable brand as well as advanced digital video programming under the Cox Digital Cable brand. Cox provides an array of other communications and entertainment services, including local and long distance telephone under the Cox Digital Telephone brand; high-speed Internet access under the brands Cox High Speed Internet and Cox Express; and commercial voice and data services via its affiliate Cox Business Services, LLC. Local cable advertising, promotional opportunities and production services are sold under the Cox MediaSM brand. Cox is an investor in programming networks including Discovery Channel.

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