From August 15, 2011 to September 3, 2011, KXBT simulcasted KXXS ("True Oldies 92.5"). 1970 - Station was qualified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to receive financial assistance provided to noncommercial radio stations for the first time ever by the federal government. 1958 - Signed on as KUT-FM on November 10, licensed to the University of Texas as an Educational station broadcasting at 90.7 MHz from the School of Journalism (now Geography) building at Whitis Avenue & 24th Street, It is still hosted weekly by John L. Hanson Jr.[11]. Its studio operations are located on campus at the Belo Center for New Media. Sponsors are noted on-air in the form of abbreviated announcements called underwriting spots. As of January 23, 2012, KXBT began locally programming Monday-Friday 6am-7pm and added a local morning show from 6am-10am with Bo Chase In The Morning as well as syndicated host Tom Kent weekdays from 7pm-12am. The national All Things Considered broadcasts were transmitted each evening that week from the new KUT studio facilities. The SXSW Radio Day Stage, located on the fourth floor of the Austin Convention Center in Ballroom D, is where registrants can grab a drink, connect to free wi-fi, relax and catch quality performances from buzz artists between sessions and workshops. The Regional Mexican format lasted until November 29, 2009, when Bain Capital took over most of the assets of the Austin, Texas cluster of Border Media Partners, and changed formats to talk radio as "98.9 The Big Talker" and new calls KXBT. KUT is owned and operated by faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas would not return to the airwaves until thirty years later, this time on the FM band. 1961 - Moved to newly refurbished quarters in the Radio/Television building on Speedway, a site now occupied by Robert A. Welch Hall. The annual KUTX SXSW Broadcast(March 15-18, 2017) at Four Seasons Downtown Austin. 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. Each morning, four artists play 30 min sets broadcasted live on 98.9fm KUTX. 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. KUT, 90.5 FM, is a listener-supported and corporate-sponsored public radio station based in Austin, Texas. On July 7, 2012, as part of Border Media's Austin selloff, the Board of Regents at the University of Texas announced their intention to vote on their acquisition of KXBT for $6 million; while questions about the proposal tabled the vote for some time, it was approved on August 23, and UT shortly after announced their intention to move KUT's music programming to 98.9 under new calls KUTX by the start of 2013. Experience Austin, Texas with KUT, KUTX and KUT3 alt.latino live radio. 1986 - Won, jointly with the UT McDonald Observatory, The Ohio State University Award for production of the astronomy radio series Star Date. But the most reliable information indicates that the first authorization was an experimental radio station license — bearing the call sign 5XU — that was issued to the University on March 22, 1921. The station was also the Houston Texans affiliate for the Austin, Texas market. The live concert and broadcast starts at noon and will feature performances by Twin Shadow (noon), Gang of Four (1 p.m.), Ryan Bingham (2 p.m.), Best Coast (3 p.m.), Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear (4 p.m.), and Courtney Barnett (5 p.m.). ©2017 KUT / Design and development by KUT/KUTX, Tipit LLC, and Elon & Company. 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. Description: No other Austin station brings you national and local news like KUT 90.5 FM. Listener contributions and corporate sponsorship, termed "community support", account for roughly 80% of the station's budget. 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. KUT's early years were ambitious but, by 1927, ambition had outrun the funding. They had a new license granted on October 30 and it bore, for the first time, the call letters KUT. Thanks for listening! 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. [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. 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). We couldn’t do what we do without your continued support. KUT HD1 is a digital version of the over-the-air analog signal. Local productions include In Black America and Texas Standard (hosted by David Brown). The series was cited for "excellence in educational, informational, and public affairs broadcasting.". 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. Weekly services were broadcast from St. David's Episcopal Church and, during football season, fans could listen to play-by-play descriptions of the Longhorn games.[9]. 1991 - Held a special one-day fundraiser to assist NPR in meeting emergency budget needs for news coverage of the Persian Gulf War. On August 15, 2011, after a listener survey and facing stagnant ratings, BMP Radio dropped the news/talk format in favor of Classic Hits. 1984 - Won the Texas Governor's Barbara Jordan Award for "excellence in the communication of the reality of disabled people" through the production of SoundSight, a weekly news-and-features program for blind and print-impaired listeners. It is the National Public Radio member station for central Texas.Its studio operations are located on campus at the Belo Center for New Media. The actual beginning date of radio transmissions on the UT-Austin campus has never been fully substantiated. [6] KUTX is marketed as "The Austin Music Experience." Production of In Black America moved from Houston to KUT Austin.

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