His resume... The NSA already knows who he is...
ravi asked:
Who is Travus T. Hipp?
--ravi
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"I like to think that I have succeeded in becoming a subversive
influence in the budding police state that is Amerika in the late half
of the century... "I only hope that reformists can turn the nation
around before it becomes necessary to decorate the arches of our
Capitol rotunda with the dangling corpses of fascist lackeys."
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The Official Travus T. Hipp Story
Travus T.Hipp is a veteran of nearly three decades as a News
Commentator, beginning in the "underground" FM stations of San
Francisco's radical radio renaissance.
A political activist in Berkeley, Hipp developed both an insight
and an attitude during the Vietnam period, and has seen little or no
cause to change either in the intervening years. Working both as a
Journalist and a Talk Host he has honed a fine edge to his
extemporaneous commentaries and claims that there is a certain Zen to
improvised interpretation that bypasses the rational to reach for
instinctive truth in the day's events.
After four years in the Navy, Hipp returned to California from
overseas in 1960, dedicated to becoming a beatnik dropout from the angst
driven values of the fifties. Folk clubs were the venue of that
lifestyle, and Hipp ran a coffee house in Berkeley whose notoriety led
the local vice squad and FBI to ban the licensing of any business under
the name "Cabale" in the future. Hipp still retains Cabale News Service
as his business cover.
Chased across the Mexican border twice by the FBI for subversive
associations and drugs, and back once by the Federales of that noble
nation for somewhat the same reasons, Hipp finally fell afoul the law
and was doing a short term of county time when he was bailed out by the
legendary Tom Donahue to go to work for KMPX, America's premier FM rock
station in 1967.
Rehabilitated by his conversion to capitalism, Travus first became
a top salesman for the new format, then a public affairs talk host
during the political turmoil of the era, working stations in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Reno and points between. Radical Radio, calling
for the overthrow of a corrupt and unconstitutional government, was then
a rarity and many of Hipp's listeners of the time remember him as an
extremist, though by today's talk standards, he appears merely premature
in his cynical outrage.
In the late seventies, Hipp came to the attention of Jeremy
Landsman, whose populist approach to broadcasting had made him a major
thorn in the side of the FCC, whom he baited unmercifully. The meeting
of like minds resulted in nearly a decade of unusual news and comment on
KFAT, the progenitor station for the current "Americana" format as
exemplified by KPIG, his current broadcast home.
"I like to think that I have succeeded in becoming a subversive
influence in the budding police state that is Amerika in the late half
of the century, says Travus with a derisive smile. "I only hope that
reformists can turn the nation around before it becomes necessary to
decorate the arches of our Capitol rotunda with the dangling corpses of
fascist lackeys."
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TRAVUS T. HIPP
A Brief Resume
Following military service and college at a variety of
campuses in California, Chandler Laughlin owned and operated several
cabarets and folk music coffee houses in the early sixties. After a
sojourn in New York he returned to San Francisco in the fall of 1967 and
immediately went to work for KMPX as a time salesman.
KMPX was the first of the FM rock stations, created by the
legendary Tom Donahue whose contribution to modern radio, as he put it,
was "moving the little lever from 45 to 33 rpm." The station was
successful within a year, and Laughlin accompanied Donahue and several
others to Metro Media's FM, KSAN in the spring of '68.
At KSAN he continued to sell but helped found the alternative
(then called "underground") news department and created a weekly talk
show, the "Rawhide Reality Revue with Travus T Hipp", which later
expanded to both KZAP in Sacramento and KTIM in San Rafael, where he was
also News Director in 1970.
During the KSAN period Travus T Hipp was syndicated by the now
defunct Pacific News Service Radio, with daily commentaries on stations
throughout the US and Canada, mostly college radio and Pacifica affiliates.
Since the early '80's Travus has been doing daily news and
comment on KPIG, the bellwether Americana format station in the Santa
Cruz/Monterey market. He also hosted a weekly talk show from '94-'98,
when new owners changed the public affairs programming format.
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