OPUBCO launches ElectOK.com
Via Green Country Values, I learned that the Oklahoma Publishing Company, which publishes the Oklahoman, has launched a website with information on elections for federal and state offices called ElectOK.com. Enter your address, and get a list of federal and state races on your ballot, with a page for each candidate to outline a platform, and post blog entries, photos, and video. As far as I can tell, it's a free opportunity for candidates to reach the voters.
At the bottom of the "about" page is an informative disclaimer that spells out OPUBCO's wide reach:
ElectOK is a product of OPUBCO Communications Group, a division of The Oklahoma Publishing Company, a 104-year-old privately held corporation based in Oklahoma City, with current interests in media, hospitality, minerals, communications, technology, securities and real estate development, among other ventures. OPUBCO Communications Group publishes a statewide daily newspaper, The Oklahoman, with distribution in all 77 Oklahoma counties. In addition to The Oklahoman, and the state's most trafficked local websites, including NewsOK.com, Wimgo.com, JobsOK.com, HomesOK.com, CarsOK.com and BedlamNation.com, OPUBCO Communications Group owns and operates The Oklahoman Direct, the largest full-scale standard direct mail provider in Oklahoma. OPUBCO Communications Group is also the publisher of many free distribution publications and magazines including: LOOKatOKC, a young reader tabloid; Viva Oklahoma!, a Spanish-language news tabloid; Make and Model, a car buyers guide; Central Oklahoma Homes Magazine, an upscale homebuilders magazine; HomesOK Extra, a real estate tabloid; JobsOK Extra, a recruitment tabloid; and most recently Recreational Rides, a monthly niche product that focuses on outdoor recreation.
(Wouldn't it be interesting to know details on, e.g., OPUBCO's involvement in real estate development? And whether that affects the Oklahoman's coverage of, e.g., zoning issues?)
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Whatever their real-estate holdings, you won't find them under the Communications Group, which was specifically designed as an umbrella corporation for all the print material and the accompanying Web sites.
Gaylord Entertainment, meanwhile, has gone public; most of their holdings are in Nashville, though. (OPUBCO, last I heard, owned about 6 percent of the company, and E. K. II was the only Gaylord I remember being on the board.)
Much of the stuff OPUBCO owned was in proximity to the Black Tower on North Broadway, or connected to the old Mistletoe Express business northeast of downtown, some of which has been sold off. They still own the Gaillardia project on the northwest side. I have no idea how much they might have in the so-called "Core to Shore" area.