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KUT 90.5FM

Since its launch in 1958, 90.5FM has held a special place on Austin's radio dial. This University of Texas-based public radio station became an NPR charter member in the Seventies, and the resulting blend of public affairs programs (All Things Considered, Morning Edition) and homegrown music shows that listeners planned their weeks around (Can you say Twine Time? Eklektikos? Can you spell Aielli?) made KUT Austinites' go-to station for national news and breezy listening. Last year's migration of the music to new sibling station KUTX 98.9 gave news junkies new global sources for their information fix (BBC's World Have Your Say, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, TED Radio Hour, et al.) on KUT, but the station's commitment to local coverage has grown as well, with long-running in-house program In Black America supplemented by an expanded local news division and regular shorts like Cecilia Nasti's Field and Feast, This Week in Texas Music History, hosted by Texas State professor Gary Hartman, and the new Two Guys on Your Head.

KUT 90.5FM
300 W. Dean Keeton, 512/471-1631
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