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KOAT-TV Is No. 1 in News; KDEF Switches to Sports CONTINUED FROM PAGE F12 contests on ratings period numbers cannot be determined, he said, claiming that other factors, like the strength of lead-in network programming, is probably greater. KOB fared better in the 6-7 a.m. time slot. Its locally produced news program received a 35 metro share and a 34 DMA share.

KOAT's morning program, a combination of local and network news, garnered a 39 metro share and a 27 DMA share. KGGM, airing CBS This Morning, registered an 11 metro share and a 13 DMA share. Miguel Gandert, a 14-year veteran cameraman at KOAT-TY and a nationally recognized still photog-, market, and one of only 14 stations nationwide to use the format. "We went on the air Monday and the response has been just overwhelming," Flury said. "The phones are constantly busy and advertisers-ere calling us.

It's real unusual." KDEF will carry a mix of locally produced sports programs, satellite fed sports programming, and live play-by-play coverage of national teams, college 'teams, and New Mexico high school teams. Local hosts will include vetejin TV and radio sports announcer Henry Tafoya, Scott Fader, Milo Perrins and Teresa Dye. The live game schedule includes New Mexico State University football and basketball, Denver Broncos football, Chicago Cubs baseball, Notre Dame football and Los Angeles Lakers basketball. ment. He received a bachelor's degree in university studies from UNM in 1977 and a master's degree in art from UNM in 1983.

Turning to the radio dial, KDEF-AM (1150), which formerly featured big band music of the 1940s and 50s, is back on the air after a brief hiatus with a 24-hour all-sports format. KDEF and sister station, KMYI-FM (107.1), were recently sold to Texas businessman George Chapman. KMYI's call letters will be changed to KUCU and it will begin airing a country music format about Sept. 15. The new general manager for both stations, Scott Flury, said the all-sports approach of KDEF, which will retain the same call letters, is a first for the Albuquerque radio scholars at the university," he said.

"I will be continuing my work on Hispanic religion, ritual and culture in Northern New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley." Those subjects were part of a highly acclaimed one-man show of Gandert's photography that was on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Some of his photographs are also part of the permanent collection at the UNM Fine Arts Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz. Gandert said university officials invited him to apply for the journalism position about a year ago. He will be teaching broadcast news and photojournalism. "I thought I could contribute something to the education of a young journalist," Gandert said.

"After 14 years in TV, I thought it was time for a change, and this is a good change. I'm not really leaving the business, just changing the aspect. I'll be educating people about how to do it well." Gandert, a native of Espanola, attended high school in Equador, where his father worked for the agency for International Develop- with KOB during the July ratings period, KOAT negated the effects of KOB's May ratings. It didnt come cheap, though. KOATs contest enriched viewers by $15,400.

KOB spent $6,000 the second time around. The same 10 p.m. metro newscast that got folks at KOB all excited in May with a 34 share slid to a 23 share for July, while KOAT chalked up a 37 share, up from a 30 share. KGGM registered a 12, down a tad from the 13 share it got in May. The DMA numbers for the same newscast show KOB with a 24 share, down from a 28 share; KOAT with a 34 share, up from a 30; and KGGM with a 12 share, down from a 13.

In the '6 p.m. newscast, Nielsen shows KOB with a 21 metro share, down from a 30 in the May book, and a 20 DMA share, down from a 25; KOAT has a 44 metro share, up from a 34 in May, and a 36 DMA, up from a 33; KGGM recorded a 10 metro share, down from an 11 in May, and an 11 DMA share, down from a 11 Said KOB news director Bob Richardson: "No doubt that from May to July we lost some ground, but if you look at July last year to July this year there is still good growth." Further, Richardson noted, in the last four or five years KOB viewership overall has grown ste5dily. The effects of rapner, has left his job at the television station to accept a position as an assistant professor in the journalism department at the University of New Mexico. Gandert, 35, will also work as II life to put 11; BUT SCIS TIIII1GS VCOTSTAYPUTI Gandert a research associate for the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, part of the Center for Regional Studies at UNM. "I hope to be doing documentary projects on my own and with other OPEN dam 3am 7901 CENTRAL NE 2650440 ADULT VIDEO CLUB Rentals Video Sales Magazines Doc Johnson Toys Novelties Video Arcade with 35 Channels 'THE DOCTOR' IS THIS YEAR'S MOST PLEASANT SURPRISE!" Mike dark, USA TOMT FIRST RUN MOVIE THEATRE- OBSESSION Starring Zera Whltee Pray ehe not MnUng of You.

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