University of North Texas - Broadcast, Print, and Digital Media

Broadcast, Print, and Digital Media

Broadcast

• KNTU (88.1 FM), licensed and owned by the university and operated by students, has, for forty-three years, broadcast to the North Texas region. Jazz has always been a feature of the station; but in 1981, it became the predominant format. KNTU began broadcasting in stereo in 1986 and, on March 22, 1988, increased its broadcasting power from 6,700 watts to 100,000, extending its reach to about a 60-mile radius from its tower, located on the Denton campus. KNTU is part of the Mean Green Radio Network, which reaches 10 million listeners. Under the guidance of now-retired faculty member Bill Mercer, several sports broadcasters and radio personalities have emerged from North Texas, including Dave Barnett formerly of ESPN, George Dunham, and Craig Miller.

• NTTV, UNT's 24-hour cable television station, features student-produced and student-centric programming.

Print

• North Texas Review is an annual publication of the English Department. It is produced by UNT students and exclusively features works — art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction — by UNT students.

• Student yearbooks through the years have included Cotton-tail (1906), Yucca (1907–1974), Wings (1977–1980), and Aerie (1982–2007). Aerie ceased publication after the 2007 edition, following a trend of the digital age cited by The Economist in 2008.

• University of North Texas Press, founded in 1987, is a relatively young albeit prolific book publisher with more than 300 titles in print (as of 2012).

• North Texas is the home of American Political Science Review as of July 2012. The journal moves among national universities every four to six years. UNT will be the first university in the South or Southwest to house the publication.

Mixed media

• The North Texas Daily is a student newspaper and online publication. Hardcopies are published Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and weekly during the summer.

Digital

• The Portal to Texas History is an undertaking of the North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Unit.
• Texas State Historical Association, housed on the Denton campus as of 2008, administers its website and distributes its Handbook of Texas Online. The association had previously been at The University of Texas at Austin since its founding in 1897.
• UNT Research Magazine is an annual digital magazine. It was founded as ReSource (with various subtitles) in 1992 and adopted its current name in 2006.