WJKT (channel 16) is a television station in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Nexstar Media Group.

MT Communications, owner of then-Fox affiliate WLMT in Memphis, acquired the station at the end of 1989 and changed its call letters to WMTU in January 1990.

The call letters were changed to WJKT in 2001, coinciding with the return of local advertising and an attempt to build a separate identity for the station.

In March 1980, Golden Circle Broadcasting, mostly owned by a Chattanooga company, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new television station on channel 16 in Jackson.

[6] Programming including classic reruns and movies as well as St. Louis Cardinals baseball was secured, as was studio space in a former Southern Supply Company building on Royal Street.

[7] WJWT began broadcasting on April 18, 1985, and spent most of its early months on air fighting the local cable system for carriage in a timely manner.

[8] The system had been holding off to ensure that customers without new converter equipment could continue to receive HBO, a channel whose space was needed for the new local station.

However, channel 30—having been renamed WLMT by new owners MT Communications that year—bought the license from Golden Circle and the assets from First American National Bank in December.

However, WMTU continued to hold the Fox affiliation in the Jackson market, breaking away from channel 30 to air the network's programs.

Max Media—a Virginia company founded by three former officers of TVX Broadcast Group, which had put the then-WMKW-TV on the air in 1983—then would manage the stations for Davis.