KMYT-TV
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| Branding | My41 |
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| KOKI-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | March 18, 1981 |
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Call sign meaning | MyNetworkTV Tulsa |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 54420 |
| ERP | 812.5 kW |
| HAAT | 373 m (1,224 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°1′36″N 95°40′45″W / 36.02667°N 95.67917°W |
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KMYT-TV (channel 41) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Rincon Broadcasting Group alongside KOKI-TV (channel 23). The two stations share studios on East 27th Street and South Memorial Drive in the Audubon neighborhood of southeast Tulsa; KMYT-TV's transmitter is located on South 273rd East Avenue in Coweta.
Channel 41 began broadcasting March 18, 1981, as KGCT-TV. Owned by a consortium including Satellite Syndicated Systems, the station initially broadcast a block of live, local programs during the day and an over-the-air subscription television service, In-Home Theater (IT), to paying customers at night. The live local programming lasted less than three months, and by 1982 KGCT was airing religious programming during the day. IT peaked at 11,000 subscribers in 1982 and ceased operations in October 1984. The station struggled as Tulsa's second-rated independent station behind KOKI-TV, with low ratings and—after 1986—no cable carriage in Tulsa. Satellite Syndicated Systems, which became Tempo Enterprises in 1986, was sold to Tele-Communications Inc. in 1988 and divested its ownership stake in channel 41. The firm had been underwriting most of the station's operating expenses. On February 1, 1989, it was taken off the air while sale negotiations were ongoing.
The station returned to the air under the ownership of RDS Broadcasting in 1991 as KTFO. Two years later, RDS contracted operations out to Clear Channel Television, which at the time owned KOKI-TV. It became a UPN affiliate when that network launched in 1995 and switched to MyNetworkTV when UPN closed in 2006. Successive sales since 2008 have seen KMYT-TV owned by Newport Television, Cox Media Group, Imagicomm Communications, and Rincon.