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Stevie Ray Vaughan performing on Austin City Limits. A set resembling the Austin skyline is visible in the background.

Austin City Limits is an American television music program and a staple of the Public Broadcasting Service. Known for featuring country music, the show also broadcasts performances of folk, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, alternative rock, indie rock and other genres.

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 on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Images of Austin, Texas, the self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World," are seen in the opening credits. ACL's set also features a mock skyline of Austin. The show inspired the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin.

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

In 2009, ACL plans to move to a new purpose-built studio complex that will substantially increase the number of audience members that can attend.^[1] Some of the performances from Austin City Limits have been released as CDs and DVDs in the Live from Austin, TX series.

See: List of Austin City Limits performers

(as of the 2006-2007 season)

• AT&T
• Advanced Micro Devices
• Austin Convention Center
• Budweiser

• Lone Star Brewing Company (early-1980s)
• Stroh Brewery Company (late-1980s)
• Frito-Lay (1994-1997)
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1976-1997)
• Viewers Like You (1994-2001)
• SBC Communications (now the new AT&T)
• Chick-Fil-A (2005-2006 season, at least)

1. ^ Coons, Leslie. Austin City Limits getting new digs. keyetv.com - Channel 42 - Austin, TX. Retrieved June 21, 2007.

• Sessions at West 54th: a short-lived public television series that also featured music performances
• Soundstage: similar program from WTTW in Chicago
• Austin City Limits Music Festival
• Music of Austin
• KLRU

• PBS: Austin City Limits
• Austin City Limits Festival
• KLRU-TV, Austin's PBS
• The Handbook of Texas Online