Giancarlo Cito (born 12 August 1945) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur, former mayor of Taranto.

In 1985, Cito founded the local TV station Antenna Taranto 6 (AT6); his channel found great success and Cito became very popular in his city also because, intercepting the dissatisfaction with the bankruptcy management of the city administration led by the Christian Democracy and the Socialist Party in the early 1990s, he created a political column in which he denounced the offences committed by local administrators.

In 1997 some of his family members bought the historic Lucanian broadcaster Tele Basilicata Matera, whose operational headquarters were soon transferred to Taranto.

Between 2003 and 2007, during his detention to serve the sentence for external competition in association with organized crime, he graduated in Legal Sciences.

In 1996, Cito left the office of mayor in order to be a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies during the 1996 general elections, managing to gain a seat in Parliament.