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The Texas Travesty
The ''Texas Travesty'' is a student-produced satirical newspaper created and produced at the University of Texas at Austin. The ''Travesty'' began in 1997 as an independent, online-only publication by the Butler brothers: Kevin Butler (a former editorial columnist for '' The Daily Texan'') and Brad Butler. Within a year, the publication successfully appealed for inclusion within Texas Student Media (TSM, officially named Texas Student Publications), an auxiliary enterprise of the university which publishes ''The Daily Texan'' and produces KVRX and TSTV. The staff produces six issues each school year, three each long semester. According to the TSM itself, the ''Travesty'' currently has a print distribution of roughly 25,000 copies, in addition to thousands of online readers. The ''Travesty'' is supported by advertising revenue. As a publication within TSM, the paper shares some revenue and expenses with the general TSM organization. The editor-in-chief holds a non-voting pos ...
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Humor Magazine
A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays. Humor magazines first became popular in the early 19th century with specimens like ''Le Charivari'' (1832–1937) in France, ''Punch'' (1841–2002) in the United Kingdom and '' Vanity Fair'' (1859–1863) in the United States. Contemporary humor magazines Out-of-print humor magazines {, class="sortable wikitable" , - ! width="110", Title ! width="75", Language ! width="45", Country ! width="80", Years published ! width="100", Notable Contributors ! width="50", Frequency ! width="100", Medium ! width="100", Classification , - , '' Army Man'' , English , USA , 1988–1990 , George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jack Handey, Mark O'Donnell , 3 issues , Pape ...
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Alternative Weekly
An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. Its news coverage is more locally focused, and their target audiences are younger than those of daily newspapers. Typically, alternative newspapers are published in tabloid format and printed on newsprint. Other names for such publications include alternative weekly, alternative newsweekly, and alt weekly, as the majority circulate on a weekly schedule. Most metropolitan areas of the United States and Canada are home to at least one alternative paper. These papers are generally found in such urban areas, although a few publish in smaller cities, in rural areas or exurban areas where they may be referred to as an alt monthly due to the less frequent publication schedule. Content Alternative papers have usually ...
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Satirical Magazines Published In The United States
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question. Satire is found in many artistic ...
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Magazines Published In Austin, Texas
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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Magazines Established In 1997
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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College Humor Magazines
Many colleges and universities publish satirical journals, conventionally referred to as "humor magazines." Among the most famous: The Harvard ''Lampoon'', which gave rise to the '' National Lampoon'' in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine (founded in 1872), the Princeton ''Tiger Magazine'', Pennsylvania ''Punch Bowl'', which was founded in 1899, and ''Jester of Columbia'', founded 1901. List of college humor magazines * American University: ''The Beagle'' * Amherst College: ''The Amherst Muck-Rake'' * Appalachian State University: ''The Rotten Appal'' * Binghamton University: ''The Times-Tribune'' * Boston College: ''The New England Classic'' * Boston University: ''The Bunion'' * Baylor University: ''The Rope'' * Brandeis University: ''Gravity'' * Brown University: ''The Brown Jug,'' ''The Philtrum Press,'' ''The Brown Noser'' * Bowdoin College: ''The Harpoon'' * Bucknell University: ''The Mucknellian'' *Caltech: ''The California Torch'' * Cambridge ...
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1997 Establishments In Texas
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The Texas Ranger (magazine)
''The Texas Ranger'' was the undergraduate humor publication of the University of Texas at Austin (UT), published from 1923 to 1972. A number of people who later went on to become key members of the underground comix scene — including Frank Stack, Gilbert Shelton, and Jaxon — were ''Texas Ranger'' editors and contributors during the period 1959–1965. Other notable contributors to ''The Texas Ranger'' over the years included Robert C. Eckhardt, John Canaday, Rowland B. Wilson, Harvey Schmidt, Bill Yates, Liz Smith, Robert Benton, Bill Helmer, Robert A. Burns and Wick Allison. It was succeeded in 1997 by the ''Texas Travesty''. Overview ''The Texas Ranger'' was founded in 1923. Seeing itself as a complement to the campus newspaper ''The Daily Texan'', the ''Ranger'' focused on humor, cartoons, and images of young women on its covers. Gag cartoons and comic strips were a staple of the magazine from its inception. From early on until late in its run, the magazine featured ...
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Austin Chronicle
''The Austin Chronicle'' is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic. The newspaper reported a weekly readership of 545,500. It is part of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and it emulates the typical publications of the 1960s counterculture movement. History The ''Chronicle'' was co-founded in 1981 by Nick Barbaro and Louis Black, with assistance from others who largely met through the graduate film studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. Barbaro and Black are also co-founders of the South by Southwest Festival, although the festival operates as a separate company. The paper initially was published bi-weekly, and later weekly. Its precursor in style and format was the ''Austin Sun'', a bi-weekly that had ceased operations in 1978, after four years of publication.
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K29HW-D
K32OJ-D, virtual and UHF digital channel 32, branded on-air as TSTV (Texas Student Television), is a low-powered independent television station licensed to Austin, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the University of Texas. Founded in 1995 as K09VR on channel 9, it is one of only a handful of FCC-licensed television stations in the country run entirely by students. On cable, the station can be found on channel 15 via the campus cable system serving the university. TSTV also streams live to its website. The station features such long time shows such as ''Texas News Primetime'' (previously ''Texas News Channel''), ''Sneak Peek'', ''College Crossfire'', ''Good Morning Texas'', ''College Press Box'', ''Local Live'', and ''Video Game Hour Live''. One show, ''Campus Loop'', was nationally syndicated on the College Broadcast network. It was produced from 1999 until 2001 and still airs repeats today. Notable Hollywood personalities have appeared on several of the stati ...
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Texas Student Media
Texas Student Media (TSM) is an auxiliary enterprise of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the largest student media operation in the United States. It is composed of faculty, student, and professional news industry representatives. History UT's first publication was the ''Cactus Yearbook'', established in 1894; followed in 1900 by the weekly ''Texan'' (which evolved into '' The Daily Texan'' in 1913). In 1902, the Student Association was formed, partly to oversee UT student publications. In 1921, as more publications emerged, Texas Student Publications, Inc. (TSP) was formed. Over the years the organization oversaw a number of UT publications: * ''On Campus'' * ''The Coyote'' (1908 – 1915) — humor magazine banned by the Student Association * ''Longhorn Magazine'' (1915 – 1929) — literary journal merged with ''The Texas Ranger'' * ''The Scalper'' (Oct. 1919 – Nov. 1922) — humor magazine banned by the TSP for its perceived "immorality" * '' The Texas Ranger'' (Oc ...
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KVRX-FM
KVRX (91.7 FM) is the student radio station at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. Licensed to The University of Texas, KVRX shares the 91.7 frequency with KOOP, broadcasting from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, with KOOP, operated by Austin Co-op Radio, broadcasting during the remaining hours. KVRX's studios are at the Hearst Student Media Building on campus, and its transmitter is located in East Austin.kvrx.orgbroadcasts via the internet and through iTunes Radio, TuneIn.com and an iPhone app 24 hours a day, seven days a week. History In the Spring of 1986, students at the University of Texas at Austin formed a committee called the Student Radio Task Force with the intention of raising both institutional and student support for a campus radio station. Two years later, SRTF had secured the support of Texas Student Publications (now Texas Student Media, the Universi ...
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