KGTO (1050 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

licensed to serve

Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...

. The station is owned by Perry Publishing and Broadcasting and licensed to KJMM, Inc. It airs an

Urban Adult Contemporary Urban adult contemporary, often abbreviated as urban AC or UAC, (also known as adult R&B,) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have hip hop music ...

music format. Its studios are located in the Copper Oaks complex in South Tulsa. The station has been assigned these call letters by the

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since February 1, 1982, having chosen them to signify "Greater Tulsa's Oldies", a format change. Previous formats included

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

and

religious broadcasting Religious broadcasting, sometimes referred to as faith-based broadcasts, is the dissemination of television and/or radio content that intentionally has religious ideas, religious experience, or religious practice as its core focus. In some coun ...

. KGTO's transmitter site at 5400 West Edison was depicted in 1988 in UHF as the location of fictional television station "U-62".Tulsa TV Memories: Tulsa UHF locations
/ref> While a transmitter tower remains at this location, the original building at the site was removed in 2001.

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KGTO official website
* * GTO Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States {{Oklahoma-radio-station-stub