KMYT-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KMYT-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = My41
analog = 41 (UHF)
digital = 42 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = MyNetworkTV
network =
founded =
airdate = March 18, 1981
location = Tulsa, Oklahoma
callsign_meaning = MYNetworkTV Tulsa
former_callsigns = KGCT-TV (1981–1988)
KTFO (1991–2006)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Newport Television, LLC
licensee =
sister_stations = KOKI-TV
former_affiliations = independent (1981–1995)
UPN (1995-2006)
effective_radiated_power = 1350 kW (analog)
900 kW (digital)
HAAT = 460 m (analog)
381 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 54420
coordinates = coord|36|1|15.1|N|95|39|28.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|36|1|35.8|N|95|40|42.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.my41tulsa.com/ www.my41tulsa.com]

KMYT-TV, Channel 41, or My41 Tulsa (formerly KTFO and KGCT) is the MyNetworkTV affiliate in the Tulsa, Oklahoma DMA. The station is owned by Newport Television in a duopoly with Fox affiliate KOKI 23. KMYT's transmitter is located in Coweta, Oklahoma.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 41, and its digital signal on UHF channel 42. On cable, KMYT-TV can be seen on channel 10 on Cox Tulsa.

History

KMYT-TV signed on the air in April 1981, as KGCT. They ran Local News about 8 Hours a day along with news from CNN until 7 p.m.. After 7 p.m. they ran subscription television programming. They were owned by Green County TV Associates and Satellite TV Systems.

The news format was not profitable so it was gradually dropped less than a year later. After that it ran programs such as CNN news, religious shows, cartoons, agricultural programming, business news, and some barter shows. "Entertainment Tonight" ran on the station for about a year which at that time was all barter and not the high rated show it is today. The station had low ratings. From 1982 until 1984, KGCT became mostly a Christian station carrying several hours a day of live Christian shows. KGCT became known as "Tulsa Christian Television," and the stations call letters came to mean "Knit God's Children Together." The station did run a few secular low budget shows. Subscription television programs after 7 p.m. continued airing until early in 1984. After that the station ran the low budget general entertainment format at night as well. They also ran rejected shows from ABC, NBC, and CBS that the local network affiliates preempted.

KMYT-TV is the seventh television station in Tulsa after KOTV, short-lived KCEB, KTUL (Muskogee's KTVX moved to Tulsa, building on the former site of KCEB to become KTUL), KVOO (then KTEW, now KJRH), KOED, and KOKI.

By 1985, KGCT-TV was running an all barter schedule with cartoons, religious shows and low rated first run barter shows. At that point, the station was almost sold but the sale never went through. Green County Associates bought out Satellite TV Systems at the end of 1985.

In 1987, an ice storm knocked down a tower that stations KGCT-TV and KTUL were using along with a few radio stations. KTUL wasn't off that long, but channel 41 would go dark due to a lack of money to make needed repairs, as well as a lack of cable coverage.

Finally after getting needed funds, in the Winter of 1991, the station signed back on as KTFO (Tulsa Forty-One). They ran only religious shows and infomercials initially. Gradually in the spring and summer of 1991, KTFO added barter entertainment shows. By the fall of 1993, the station had a good variety of shows. KTFO's programming schedule as an independent station therefore consisted of some morning cartoons/children's programs, some first run syndicated shows including comedies in the early evening, off network sitcoms, drama shows, plus older movies on weekends.

In 1994 KTFO entered into a Local Marketing Agreement with Fox affiliate KOKI (owned by Clear Channel Communications). As a result some of the stronger sitcoms, cartoons, and syndicated shows previously aired on KOKI would be added to channel 41's schedule. The stations pooled programming resources running the strongest shows on KOKI. But some shows would run on both stations. In January 1995, KTFO added UPN programming and became known as UPN 41. Clear Channel bought KTFO outright in May 2000 after the FCC began allowing duopolies.

In January 2006 it was announced that CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. made the decision to merge UPN and The WB. The new network to be called The CW Television Network will feature programming from both the UPN and WB networks. The CW will air network programming six nights a week adopting The WB's Sunday-Friday schedule compared to UPN's five nights a week (Monday-Friday). On April 10, 2006, KWBT was announced as the Tulsa affiliate of the CW.

On June 15, 2006 it was announced that KTFO will become an affiliate of My Network TV, a new broadcast network created by News Corporation. Over a month later, on July 20, Clear Channel applied to have KTFO's call sign changed to KMYT-TV (My Network TV Tulsa). KTFO also used the branding My41 Tulsa. On August 15, the station's official call signs were changed to KMYT-TV.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcast holding company controlled by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners.cite press release|title=Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners|publisher=Clear Channel Communications|url=http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1943|date=2007-04-20|accessdate=2007-04-20]

tation Presentation

Newscast Titles

*"TV-41 News" (1981-1989)

tation Slogans

*"TV-41, Tulsa's Very Own" (1981-1985)
*"My41, No News is Bad News" (2006 - Present)

News

KTFO as an independent station did have locally-produced news until it began the LMA with KOKI shortly before affiliating with UPN. In 2002, KTFO began airing local news once again when sister station KOKI began FOX23 News. KMYT-TV only airs Fox 23 News at 9 when a NFL/MLB game or movie runs past 9:00 p.m.. This is a procedure that is followed by many Fox/MyNetworkTV duopolies in the U.S.

External links

* [http://www.my41tulsa.com/ KMYT Homepage]
*TVQ|KMYT
*BIA|KMYT|TV|TV

References