The funds, however, did not materialize and broadcasting suffered until a state agriculture official needed a means to broadcast daily crop and weather reports. 1965 - Reformatted to an arts and information program schedule following the demise of Austin's commercial classical music station (KHFI), and began the first live Saturday afternoon airings in Austin of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. KUT, 90.5 FM, is a listener-supported and corporate-sponsored public radio station based in Austin, Texas.KUT is owned and operated by faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. KUTX 98.9 Austin is a public radio station from The University of Texas. Local productions include In Black America and Texas Standard (hosted by David Brown). No other station captures the Austin Music Experience like KUTX 98.9 FM. 1995 - Achieved a listenership benchmark according to Arbitron research: more than 100,000 people were listening to the station each week.

1991 - Held a special one-day fundraiser to assist NPR in meeting emergency budget needs for news coverage of the Persian Gulf War. KUTX 98.9 - What you’ll hear on KUTX is a hand-curated, alternative music mix with a local twist.

98.9 signed on in 1988 at 99.1 FM as KLTD, "Kool 99 FM" with the Satellite Music Network's "Kool Gold" format by Adams Broadcasting, which eventually spun off the Kool Gold format to Dial Global. Experience Austin, Texas with KUT, KUTX and KUT3 alt.latino live radio.

The music programming formerly heard on KUT was moved to KUTX to create a full-time music service, primarily an eclectic mix of alt pop/rock, folk, Americana, bluegrass, jazz, blues supplemented by specialty programs including Twine Time, Folkways, Across the Water (Celtic music), and Horizontes (Latin music). [7], A year later, on March 22, 1922, a new AM band broadcasting station license was issued, bearing the randomly assigned call letters WCM.

[8] In its first years, the broadcasting station was used for a number of purposes, beginning as a demonstration project in the Physics Department, whose Professor Simpson L. Brown had persuaded the administration to let him build the station in the first place. [5] On December 26 at Midnight, after playing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Burl Ives & the Videocraft Chorus, 98.9, finishing out the entire soundtrack to the television special of the same name, began its "Music Preview", with the first song as KUTX being "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles. In 1993, KLTD changed calls to KUTZ and format to hard rock as part of the Satellite Music Network-Z Rock Network. Music shows moved from KUT include Eklektikos, hosted by John Aielli (with KUT since 1966); Left of the Dial with Jeff McCord; and shows hosted by Jay Trachtenberg, and Jody Denberg. The call letters were changed from KUTX to KNCH. KUT's early years were ambitious but, by 1927, ambition had outrun the funding. 1986 - Won, jointly with the UT McDonald Observatory, The Ohio State University Award for production of the astronomy radio series Star Date.
1971 - Became a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR); contributed the first of, what would become in time, 14 of the station's employees to the NPR staff; and carried the first-ever NPR broadcast (All Things Considered) in May. In 1996, 98.9 FM changed to news/talk as KJFK, which lasted until September 2000 when Border Media Partners acquired the station and changed formats to Rock AC as "The Hill", KHHL. It is still hosted weekly by John L. Hanson Jr.[11]. The University of Texas would not return to the airwaves until thirty years later, this time on the FM band.

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PRI. Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa also originated at KUT but is now independently produced. The weekends included The Jesus Christ Show, The Otherside with Steve Godfrey, Leo Laporte The Tech Guy, John Clay Wolfe, and The Weekend. Coordinates: 30°23′28″N 97°50′13″W / 30.391°N 97.837°W / 30.391; -97.837, the entire soundtrack to the television special of the same name, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, Center for Community College Student Engagement, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KUTX&oldid=972663750, Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 07:22. The station is owned by University of Texas at Austin with headquarters at the Belo Center for New Media (A0704) on the University of Texas a ©2017 KUT / Design and development by KUT/KUTX, Tipit LLC, and Elon & Company. There is an unofficial reference to an on-campus radio operation as early as 1912. A second station, KUTX, serving San Angelo at 90.1 MHz, was sold to Texas Tech University in 2010 in part because Angelo State University had become part of the Texas Tech University System. Beginning in 1923, though, funding concerns prompted a transfer of operational control to the University's Extension Division for extension teaching. One of the stipulations of the transfer agreement was that funds would be provided for operations and maintenance to put the station in a "first-class" condition.

Public Radio Day Stage: SXSW 2015 Posted by Art Levy on Mar 6, 2015 On Friday, March 20 , KUTX and four of public radio’s most influential music tastemakers — The Current (Twin Cities), WXPN (Philadelphia), WFUV (New York), and KXT (Dallas) — present a special showcase and live radio broadcast and webcast from the SXSW Radio Day Stage at the Austin Convention Center. The station was also the Houston Texans affiliate for the Austin, Texas market. The expense of operating and maintaining the station had simply become too great for the Physics Department to sustain. 1993 - Celebrated its 35th anniversary and—in partnership with UT Austin's Center for Mexican American Studies and with major initial grants from The Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—launched the national radio series Latino USA at a "Cinco de Mayo" reception in Washington, D.C., with President Clinton in attendance along with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and cabinet secretaries Federico Peña and Henry Cisneros. Each morning, four artists play 30 min sets broadcasted live on 98.9fm KUTX. Scott Shannon's satellite-fed True Oldies Channel continued to air overnights and Sundays at 7pm.