Public University radio station KUT celebrates 50 years on air

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.