KLRU
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Austin, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KLRU |
| Slogan | TV and Beyond |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 18 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council |
| First air date | May 3, 1979 (satellite of KLRN until 1984) |
| Call letters' meaning | Derivative of KLRN |
| Sister station(s) | KLRN |
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Analog: 18 (UHF, 1979–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 700 kW |
| Height | 357.5 m |
| Facility ID | 8564 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°19′19.3″N 97°48′12.6″W / 30.322028°N 97.803500°W |
| Website | www.klru.org |
KLRU, virtual channel 18 (UHF digital channel 22), is a PBS member television station located in Austin, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council. KLRU's studios are located on Guadalupe and Dean Keeton streets at the University of Texas at Austin, and its transmitter is located on the West Austin Antenna Farm in unincorporated Travis County. In addition to airing program content from PBS, it produces original programming including the national music series Austin City Limits.
The station first signed on the air on May 3, 1979 as a satellite of KLRN in San Antonio. Before KLRU's sign-on, KLRN had served both cities from the Jesse H. Jones Communications Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Channel 18 had been allocated to Austin as a noncommercial frequency in the early 1950s, but it was thought that a UHF station would not be nearly adequate enough to provide educational television for a market that stretched from Mason in the west to La Grange in the east. This left Austin as one of the largest cities without its own PBS station.
From the day KLRU signed on, however, KLRN's owner, the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council, set about making it a separate station focused on Austin. Only a year after KLRU hit the airwaves, it received its own Austin-based governing board, though it continued under the ownership of the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. In 1984, after KLRN moved to a new tower in San Antonio, KLRU separated from KLRN and adopted its own programming schedule. In 1987, the two stations officially went their separate ways, with KLRU coming under the ownership of the Capital of Texas Public Broadcasting Council, which continues to own the station today.
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