KVRX 91.7 FMKVRX 91.7 FM

It began in 1986 as a student task force with a grant proposal and no frequency: two years of committee work, borrowed equipment from Austin's KLBJ, and a room negotiated out of the old Varsity Cafeteria put KTSB on community and campus cable on 11 April 1988. The FM dial took six more years. In 1993 the students and the community broadcaster KOOP asked the FCC to split 91.7, the last non-commercial frequency left in Austin; the call sign became KVRX in January 1994, and the first FM broadcast went out that November.

Sixty-five weekly shows are programmed by more than two hundred student DJs, and the grid swings from conscious and underground hip-hop to cumbia and salsa run through electronics, gothic rock built around a vampire film, ska and Spanish-language rock. Local Live brings an Austin band into the studio every week. KOOP still takes the daylight hours, so FM listeners get the nights.