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.

      After 30 years of relatively radical radio, Travus is preparing for the new millennium by seeking new station affiliations, offering his daily commentary and/or news reports by phone from the headquarters of Cabale News Services in a tiny mining town in the high west.