The remainder of the broadcast day was occupied by the SSS-owned In-Home Theatre (IT), a subscription service – transmitted over the channel 41 signal each weekday from 7 p.m. until sign-off at 2 a.m. and weekends from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m. – that carried uncut theatrically released feature films, entertainment specials (including concerts and Vegas revues), sporting events (including college football and basketball games involving the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, and football and basketball games and wrestling matches involving the Oklahoma State Cowboys, and NBA games featuring the Dallas Mavericks, some of which commenced play before 7 p.m., resulting in fans often missing the start of many contests) and, for an additional monthly fee, softcore versions of pornographic films.

Prospective subscribers were required to rent a special set-top decoder box to unencrypt the channel 41 signal during hours when the station carried IT programming in order to receive the service.

In September 1982, KGCT entered into a time-brokerage agreement with local minister Jack Rehburg, who rebranded it after his operating company, Tulsa Christian Television.

Channel 41's format during this period had largely relied on live and taped Christian-oriented religious programs during the morning and for most of the afternoon Monday through Saturdays and throughout the daytime hours on Sundays, along with a few low-budget secular shows during the late afternoon and nightly In-Home Theater programming (creating the incongruity of the same station airing religious shows during its free airtime, and R-rated and some softcore pornographic films at night while the signal was scrambled).

Concurrently, the Green Country-SSS venture sold the station to Channel 41 Associates for $5.05 million; although the non-compete covenant deal received FCC approval, the acquisition would not be consummated.

Later that year, Green Country Associates acquired Satellite Syndicated Systems's interest in KGCT, only to turn it over to Tempo Enterprises—then the uplinker of the national superstation feed of Atlanta independent station WTBS (now standalone cable channel TBS nationwide and WPCH-TV in the Atlanta market)—after Armstrong ran into difficulties maintaining the venture capital to run the station because of corporate financial issues tied to the 1980s oil business downturn.

[19] On December 26, 1987, a 2,000-foot (610 m) transmission tower owned by KTUL, which was also leased to KGCT and several local radio stations to house their transmitters, collapsed due to heavy freezing rain accumulations from a major ice storm that hit northeastern Oklahoma over the Christmas weekend.

TCI subsequently sought buyers for KGCT, WIHT and Conyers, Georgia radio station WTPO (now WPBS), which were contingent on receiving approval of the Tempo purchase.

[26][27][28] On July 19, 1989, Green Country Associates sold KGCT to Tulsa TV 41 Corp. (headed by Dennis Lisack, director of Louisville, Kentucky–based Christian ministry organization The Messiah Project) for $500,000.

[29][30][31] A suitable buyer for KGCT was found in June 1990, when RDS Broadcasting (named after its managing partners, Bob Rosenheim and Associates, Douglas Communications CEO Douglas Bornstein and infomercial production company Synchronal Corporation, headed by group co-partner Richard Kaylor) agreed to purchase the station for $157,500; the sale, which marked RDS's first station acquisition, received FCC approval on August 27, 1990, and was finalized early that September.

Channel 41 returned to the air as KTFO (for "Tulsa Forty-One") on May 22, 1991, with a schedule—airing initially from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.—consisting mainly of religious programs and infomercials, as well as some comedies, sports, classic films, and network series declined by KJRH and KOTV.

After having been unavailable on cable within Tulsa proper for the past seven years and virtually market-wide through its nine combined years of operation, in February 1992, KTFO management reached a deal with Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) to lease programming time on a tertiary educational access channel that was set to launch the following month on United Artists Cable (via a 1988 agreement with Tulsa Cable that required it to allocate an existing channel for a TPS secondary service if the provider's headend infrastructure was not rebuilt within four years to allow expansion of its channel lineup), and donate $40,000 for area schools to upgrade their television equipment.

From 1998 to 2006, some station promotions also included the "UPN Girls", a group of four women between the ages of 18 and 25, who also served as hosts for a Saturday night movie showcase on KTFO and made publicity appearances at local events.

[53][54] In January 2002, Clear Channel relocated the operations of KOKI and KTFO from Fox Plaza into a 124,000-square-foot (11,500 m2) studio complex located at 2625 South Memorial Drive.

[61][62][63] Two months later on June 15, Clear Channel Television and News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group unit announced an agreement in which KTFO would become the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate.

[66][67][68][69][70] The sale was approved by the FCC on December 1, 2007; after settling a lawsuit by Clear Channel ownership to force the equity firm to complete the sale, the Providence acquisition was finalized on March 14, 2008, at which time it formed Newport Television as a holding company to own and manage 27 of Clear Channel's 35 television stations (including KOKI and KMYT), and began transferring the remaining nine stations (all in markets where conflicts with FCC ownership rules precluded a legal duopoly from continuing under Newport) to High Plains Broadcasting, a licensee corporation formed to allow those stations to remain operationally tied to their associated Newport-owned outlets through local marketing agreements.

[80][81][82][83] Although the sale separated KOKI/KMYT from its former radio sisters under Clear Channel ownership, iHeartMedia's Tulsa cluster continued to operate out of the Memorial Drive facility until the summer of 2017, when Cox moved its Tulsa-area radio stations into the building and iHeart moved its local stations into a new facility on Yale Avenue and 71st Street (northeast of Oral Roberts University) in southeast Tulsa's Richmond Hills section.

[87] On March 29, 2022, Cox Media Group announced it would sell KMYT-TV, KOKI-TV and 16 other stations to Imagicomm Communications, an affiliate of the parent company of the INSP cable channel, for $488 million;[88] the sale was completed on August 1.

[89] Channel 41 has carried various sporting events for most of its first three decades on the air; in its early days as an independent, many of these broadcasts helped boost viewership for the then-KGCT, which had typically lagged distantly behind KOKI-TV in the ratings among the market's UHF commercial outlets under the ownership of the Green Country Associates-SSS/Tempo venture.

(Games from both teams were produced by then-independent KTVT [now a CBS owned-and-operated station] in Dallas–Fort Worth, from which the syndicated Rangers and Mavericks telecasts originated through the 1995 Rangers season, returning KTVT-televised sports to the Tulsa market since Tulsa Cable Television dropped the station in January 1990 due to United Video failing to ensure that its superstation feed was programmed in compliance with syndication exclusivity rules then being re-implemented by the FCC.)

Most college basketball telecasts on aired on the station on Saturday afternoons, although it also occasionally carried prime time games on weeknights, specifically during the Big 12 men's tournament.

Original general manager Ray Beindorf intended to model the daytime lineup in the vein of the all-local news programming format employed by fellow independent KAUT-TV downstate in Oklahoma City upon that station's October 1980 sign-on.

Difficulties accruing the necessary financial capital to pull off such an ambitious format led Beindorf to scale back these plans; instead, the station's news programming encompassed only a three-hour rolling late-afternoon block that ran from 4 to 7 p.m. weekdays.

[106][107][108] KMYT shut down its analog signal – over UHF channel 41 – on February 17, 2009, the original target date for full-power television stations in the United States to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12 to allow additional time for consumers unprepared for the changeover to make necessary precautions to continue receiving broadcast stations).