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Austin City Limits is an American
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 television
Television

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 music program and a staple of the Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service

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. Austin City Limits was initially created with an eye and ear toward original Texas music
Music of Texas

Texas has long been a center for musical innovation. Texans have pioneered musical developments in tejano music, punk rock, mariachi, country music and the blues....
, featuring artists who created innovative sounds in everything from western swing and Texas blues to Tejano music, progressive country and rock n' roll. The series went on to feature a wide range of American roots artists, covering a variety of styles and expanding beyond the borders of the Lone Star State.






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Austin City Limits is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 music program and a staple of the Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
. Austin City Limits was initially created with an eye and ear toward original Texas music
Music of Texas

Texas has long been a center for musical innovation. Texans have pioneered musical developments in tejano music, punk rock, mariachi, country music and the blues....
, featuring artists who created innovative sounds in everything from western swing and Texas blues to Tejano music, progressive country and rock n' roll. The series went on to feature a wide range of American roots artists, covering a variety of styles and expanding beyond the borders of the Lone Star State. As the program's audience has grown, the music has encompassed regional, national and even international performers. Producer Terry Lickona continues to seek a balance of music genres in every new season. "Austin City Limits" today focuses on the unique contributions of diverse artists, music and songwriting from around the world.

First aired in 1976, Austin City Limits has become American television's longest-running concert music program. The program is taped live by PBS member station KLRU
KLRU

KLRU is the local Public Broadcasting Service public television member station in Austin, Texas, in the United States....
 on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....
. Images of Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
, the self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World," are seen in the opening credits. ACL's stage also features a mock skyline of Austin. The show inspired the Austin City Limits Music Festival
Austin City Limits Music Festival

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual three-day music and art festival in Austin, Texas's Zilker Park. The Festival brings together more than 130 bands on eight stages, including rock, country, folk, indie, Americana, hip-hop, reggae, and bluegrass, and attracts a crowd of about 65,000 visitors each day....
, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park
Zilker Park

Zilker Metropolitan Park is a recreational area in the heart of south Austin, Texas that comprises over 350 acres of publicly owned land. It is named after its benefactor Andrew Jackson Zilker, who donated the land to the city in 1917....
 in Austin.

In 1977, ACL producers made London Homesick Blues, written by Gary P. Nunn
Gary P. Nunn

Gary P. Nunn is a Texas singer/songwriter. He was born in Brownfield, Texas, and was a member of Lubbock, Texas rock band The Sparkles during the 1960s....
, the ACL theme song. The show originally used the version performed by Nunn, but the song was rearranged several times starting in the mid 1990s. The current theme, beginning with the show's 30th season, is an original composition by Austin musician Charlie Sexton
Charlie Sexton

Charles Wayne Sexton is an United States guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002....
.

ACL Tidbits

  • Austin City Limits was awarded the National Medal of Arts
    National Medal of Arts

    The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the Congress of the United States in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts....
    , by President George W. Bush
    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
    , in 2003. It’s the only television show honored with this award.


  • In 2011, ACL plans to move to a new purpose-built studio complex that will substantially increase the number of audience members who can attend.


  • Some of the performances from Austin City Limits have been released as CDs and DVDs in the Live from Austin, TX series.


  • KLRU gives free weekly tours of the Austin City Limits studio to the public.


  • There is an at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.


  • Kinky Friedman
    Kinky Friedman

    Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular :Category:American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain....
     reportedly made an unaired appearance.


Austin City Limits performances

See: List of Austin City Limits performers
List of Austin City Limits performers

This list of Austin City Limits performers is a list of musicians who have appeared on the American PBS television music program Austin City Limits....


Funding

(as of the 2008-2009 season)
  • AT&T
    AT&T

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  • Advanced Micro Devices
    Advanced Micro Devices

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  • Austin Convention Center
    Austin Convention Center

    The Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Austin, Texas, USA. The building is also home to the Austin Toros basketball team with a seating capacity of 3,200....
  • Budweiser
    Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)

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  • Lone Star Brewing Company
    Lone Star Brewing Company

    Lone Star is the Brand of a beer once produced in San Antonio, Texas and marketed as "The National Beer of Texas."...
  • Stroh Brewery Company
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  • Frito-Lay
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  • The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Viewers Like You
  • SBC Communications
  • Chick-Fil-A
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See also

  • Sessions at West 54th
    Sessions at West 54th

    Sessions at West 54th was an United States television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived Austin City Limits, though the featured musicians represented a number of musical genres....
    : a short-lived public television series that also featured music performances
  • Soundstage
    Soundstage (TV program)

    Soundstage is an American live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and HD Ready. The original series aired for 13 seasons between 1974 and 1985; a new series of seasons began in 2003, with the latest running through winter 2009, each presented in High-definition television with surround sound....
    : similar program from WTTW
    WTTW

    WTTW, channel 11, is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN....
     in Chicago
    Chicago

    Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
  • Austin City Limits Music Festival
    Austin City Limits Music Festival

    The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual three-day music and art festival in Austin, Texas's Zilker Park. The Festival brings together more than 130 bands on eight stages, including rock, country, folk, indie, Americana, hip-hop, reggae, and bluegrass, and attracts a crowd of about 65,000 visitors each day....
  • Music of Austin
    Music of Austin

    File:SRV.jpegThe music of Austin, Texas centers on 6th Street , Red River, and South Congress, where bars and clubs of every kind can be found....
  • KLRU
    KLRU

    KLRU is the local Public Broadcasting Service public television member station in Austin, Texas, in the United States....


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