Campus radio with the edges left in.
KTSW 89.9 plays like a rotating campus diary with microphones left close to real student life. Episodes swing from album reactions and spring-break stories to mental health, death, major choices, bone marrow donation, gymnastics, and community events.
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KTSW 89.9 works as a station feed more than a single-host program. Its strongest throughline is student life in motion. The episodes captured here jump between different formats, but they share a casual immediacy: someone sits down, starts talking, and lets the shape of the conversation reveal itself. That can mean a breathless music episode where apartment plumbing, exams, FaceTime album debates, and concert prep all collide. It can also mean a campus interview that starts with polished gratitude and quickly turns toward real pressure, purpose, and self-doubt. The show is loose. That looseness is part of the point. KTSW’s feed preserves the sound of people and guests figuring out what they think while they say it, whether the topic is romance, Women’s History Month, Ted Lasso, public relations, mariachi minors, or how fitness helped someone rebuild momentum after quarantine. Some episodes are bright and social, full of pop references, community notices, and the specific texture of Texas State routines. Others get heavier. Mental health is discussed through bullying, depression, family silence, and the search for ways to keep going. Death and grief are approached with open conversation rather than grand seriousness. Service-oriented campus stories appear too, including interviews around the National Marrow Donor Program and gymnastics club leadership. The result is uneven in the way real campus radio is uneven: funny, earnest, abrupt, sometimes overfull, often revealing. It is not trying to sound detached or expert. It sounds close to the booth, close to the dorm, close to the walk across campus after a long day. For PlayNext, that makes KTSW 89.9 a discovery feed for listeners who want personalities, campus culture, music enthusiasm, and vulnerable student conversations in the same stream.
Made for: For listeners who like student voices, pop-culture tangents, campus interviews, and emotionally open conversations that still leave room for jokes. It fits anyone curious about Texas State life, college choices, music fandom, and people thinking out loud.
What sets it apart: KTSW 89.9 stands out because it behaves like a living campus switchboard rather than one narrowly branded show. The variety is the hook: diaristic monologues, club spotlights, mental health talks, music reactions, and community notices all share the same raw campus-radio pulse.
KTSW 89.9 is the official radio station of Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Here you can find a collection of various podcasts, live band performances, interviews and more!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
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A candid solo reflection on loneliness, romantic inexperience, and the faulty habit of tying love to relationship status.
Being Alone frames romantic inexperience as a question of self-worth, not just dating history. Murtaza Khan follows the painful thought pattern that turns missing a formative human experience into proof that nobody loves him, then lets a trusted friend's blunt reassurance break…
A relaxed career conversation where environmental education, public lands, camping stories, and public service overlap.
Wait, You Can Do That follows Amy Oliveberry's outdoor career through the linked lenses of public service and environmental education, with Sarah Wingfield and Paige Denman keeping the tone easygoing.
A 2020 guessing game opens into candid memories of POV videos, shifting, hexes, and quarantine's strange afterlife.
2020 comes through as a scrapbook of pandemic-era internet fixations and the emotional weirdness that still hangs around them. The host starts with a guessing game built from an evil eye emoji, a tree, bisexuality, Charlie D'Amelio, whipped coffee, cloud bread, color settings,…
Gardens as memory, ecology, and public care.
Sacramento voices, heard up close.
The host starts with a roll call.
The host shares personal experiences from spring break in Bermuda and discusses studio discomforts while reflecting on returning to podcasting.
This episode features a conversation with Blessing Lukadi-Matonga about mental health, focusing on personal experiences with depression and bullying, overcoming challenges, and breaking taboos around the topic.
This episode features an interview with Jocelyn Oxeer, president and national intern of the National Marrow Donor Program, discussing the organization's work in bone marrow transplants, patient support, and challenges in matching donors across ethnicities.
Taylor and Delilah join the show for a conversation about death.
Three college students introduce their new podcast about majors and career guidance, sharing personal stories like Brayden's choice of public relations as a practical route into the entertainment industry after his parents discouraged acting.
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KTSW 89.9’s "Gymnastics Club" episode follows Ryan Wold and Eduardo Almanza through gymnastics, the Terry Foundation, and a spring 2026 Washington, DC scholarship.
Nathan tells Murtaza Khan, "why do you think you're unworthy of love," after years of silence.
This episode interviews Aimee Oliveri, a community program specialist who connects underserved audiences with public lands while also working as a wildland firefighter and pursuing a master's degree.
KTSW 89.9 frames “2020” through Delilah Lopez’s memories of TikTok trends, COVID routines, and political attention.
This episode features an interview with Kylie Hill, a Texas State University junior and micro-influencer, discussing her college experiences, academic pursuits, and campus life.
This episode features an interview with Odalis Sabina, a student worker at the Special Collections and Archive Center at Texas State University, discussing her role and the department's focus on preserving Texas history.
This episode discusses the problematic use of Turnitin software for detecting AI-generated content in student papers and argues for banning it at Texas State University, featuring insights from a grad student and biology students.
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