KUTX
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| City | Leander, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area |
| Branding | KUTX 98.9 |
| Slogan | The Austin Music Experience |
| Frequency | 98.9 |
| Format | Adult Alternative (Public) |
| ERP | 29,000 watts |
| HAAT | 157 meters (515 ft) |
| Class | C2 |
| Facility ID | 59982 |
| Callsign meaning | University of TeXas |
| Former callsigns | KLTD (1988-1993) KUTZ (1993-1996) KJFK (1996-2000) KHHL (2000-2009) KXBT (2009-2013) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner |
University of Texas at Austin (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Sister stations | KUT |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kutx.org |
KUTX (98.9 FM) is a radio station licensed in Leander, Texas and serving the greater Austin, Texas area. The station is under ownership of University of Texas at Austin. Previously, the station's broadcast license was held by Border Media Partners (BMP Austin License Company, L.P.). Its studios are on campus, and the transmitter site is located just east of Lake Travis.
The headquarters are at the Belo Center for New Media (A0704) at the University of Texas at Austin.
98.9 signed on in 1988 at 99.1 FM as KLTD, "Kool 99 FM" with the Satellite Music Network's "Kool Gold" format brought to them by Adams Broadcasting, which eventually spun off the Kool Gold format to Dial Global. This lasted until 1993, when KLTD would flip to KUTZ as part of the Satellite Music Network-Z Rock Network.
98.9 FM would flip again, this time to news/talk as KJFK in 1996, which would last until Border Media Partners acquired the station in September 2000, and would flip to Rock AC as "The Hill", KHHL, and later became Spanish CHR, "Exitos 98.9", and then "La Ley 98.9" with a Regional Mexican format.
The Regional Mexican format would last until November 29, 2009, when Bain Capital took over most of the assets of the Austin, Texas cluster of Border Media Partners, and would return to talk radio as "98.9 The Big Talker". The KXBT Call Letters were transferred from the 104.9 and (Previously 104.3) as the format was for the Rhythmic Contemporary format "The Beat" before Univision flipped the 104.9 Frequency now KTXX.
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