film professor

Fifty years ago this month, KUT 90.5 FM first hit the airwaves with "The Eyes of Texas."

Radio-television-film professor Robert Schenkkan and a group of UT students led the effort to establish a full-power FM station for the University in 1958.

The Federal Comunications Commission issued the public radio station's call letters, KUT, on Aug.

Nicholas Cominos offered himself as a hostage to let his crew go during a covert operation against the Nazis in the Dalmation Islands during World War II.

He then worked on some major Hollywood film productions such as "Ben Hur."

When UT radio-television-film professor Ellen Spiro received a phone call from former talk show host Phil Donahue in June 2005, she did not expect the surprise call would lead to a possible Oscar nomination.