Editing KTXT-FM (section)

==Cessation and return==
KTXT-FM abruptly stopped broadcasting 2:35 PM CST on December 10, 2008.<ref name=Demise>{{cite web|url=http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2008/12/03/News/Ktxt-Goes.Off.The.Air-3577186.shtml|title=KTXT goes off the air|access-date=2008-12-10|publisher=[[Texas Tech University]]}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=DemiseChron>{{cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6167838.html |access-date=2008-12-16 |newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]] |title=Financial constraints force closure of FM station |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219193518/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6167838.html |archive-date=December 19, 2008 }}</ref> Student Media cited budget constraints as the reason behind the station closure.  Student Media retained control of the studios, using them as offices, while the bulk of the broadcast equipment would be transferred to Texas Tech's other FM radio station, KOHM.  Broadcasts from the former studios were no longer possible after December 10, and KTXT-FM was off the air.

Control of KTXT-FM was transferred to KOHM-FM (Now KTTZ-FM) in January 2009.  Relocation of the [[microwave]] [[studio/transmitter link]]s to the KOHM studios were completed in early May 2009, and test broadcasts were conducted. KTXT-FM returned to the air in late May with a broadcast schedule consisting mainly of network programming via satellite.  The lack of proper studio facilities has been cited by KOHM management as the reason for KTXT-FM's [[broadcast automation|automated/unattended operation]]. KOHM/KTTZ station management had expressed a long-term goal of returning students to the operation of KTXT-FM.

On July 1, 2012, KTXT-FM was once again belting out alternative/college hits. KTXT-FM is once again operated by the College of Mass Communications. As of this date the station has returned, with students said to be running the station. New studios, equipment, and offices are being installed in the Mass Communications Building. (Former Business Administration Building)