KUT-FM
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| City | Austin, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Austin metro area |
| Branding | KUT 90.5 |
| Slogan | Austin's NPR Station |
| Frequency | 90.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) 90.5 HD-2 for simulcast of KUTX 90.5 HD3 for Jazz |
| First air date | 1921, 1958 |
| Format | News/Talk (Public) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 207 meters (679 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 66573 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°18′51″N 97°51′58″W / 30.314167°N 97.866112°WCoordinates: 30°18′51″N 97°51′58″W / 30.314167°N 97.866112°W |
| Callsign meaning | University of Texas |
| Former callsigns | 5XY (1921-1922), WCM (1922-1925) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Sister stations | KUTX |
| Webcast |
KUT Live Feed KUT HD-2 Live Feed PLS |
| Website | www.kut.org |
KUT FM 90.5 is a listener-supported and corporate-sponsored public radio station owned and operated by faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. It is the National Public Radio member station for central Texas. Occasionally there is confusion between KUT and KVRX 91.7 FM, the University's student-run radio station, because both are owned by the University of Texas and are based out of the UT campus.
KUT's main transmitter broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts and is located 8 miles west of Downtown Austin at the University of Texas Bee Cave Research Center. KUT is licensed to broadcast in the digital hybrid HD format.
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. The call letters were changed from KUTX to KNCH. The KUTX call letters were moved to KUT's repeater station in Somerville, broadcasting to the Bryan/College Station area on 88.1 FM. On August 23, 2012, the UT System Board of Regents voted to move forward to purchase KXBT-FM 98.9 FM (Leander/Austin) from Border Media Business Trust. On January 2, 2013, KXBT became KUTX, creating an Austin-based sister station for KUT. At that time, KUT adopted an all-news/talk format utilizing programming from NPR, the BBC, PRI and others. 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), an Horizontes (Latin music).
KUT was first established under its present call letters in 1925, but was absent from the airwaves from 1927 until 1958.
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