Abstract. We study the kernels K n,s (z) in the remainder terms R n,s (f ) of the Gauss-Turán quadrature formulae for analytic functions on elliptical contours with foci at ±1, when the weight ω is a generalized Chebyshev weight function. For the generalized Chebyshev weight of the first (third) kind, it is shown that the modulus of the kernel |K n,s (z)| attains its maximum on the real axis (positive real semi-axis) for each n ≥ n 0 , n 0 = n 0 (ρ, s). It was stated as a conjecture in [Math. Comp. 72 (2003), 1855-1872. For the generalized Chebyshev weight of the second kind, in the case when the number of the nodes n in the corresponding Gauss-Turán quadrature formula is even, it is shown that the modulus of the kernel attains its maximum on the imaginary axis for each n ≥ n 0 , n 0 = n 0 (ρ, s). Numerical examples are included.