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TV-ENTERTAINMENT Page 13, Section A Friday, August 22, 1986 Albuquerque Journal Bobby Wolff New Radio Station To Join Busy Market By Rick Nathanson JOURNAL STAFF WRITER wmV, -mm'- 11 i. .1 ttlllJ 1 Jr A WSS ii I mJ Kf ing, we came to the conclusion that the 25-year-old-plus audience that grew up listening to the Beatles and Rolling Stones was not being adequately serviced." Among the talent recruited for the new KKBR operation is Stuart Bryce, known to listeners of KFMG-FM as Kidd Stuart. Bryce will be leaving that album-oriented rock station Sept. 1, after 2V2 years. During that time he served as news director, production director, midday and evening announcer, public affairs director and director of the Life Ride Program, designed to provide transportation home for people who have had too much to drink at local bars.

Bryce will be KKBR's news director and morning news announcer. In other radio news, it was learned that Ray Kincaid, former program director at KRZY-AM, resigned suddenly Wednesday. Doug Milligan, general manager of the Merv Tapes Last Show, No. 5,520 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Veteran television talk show host Merv Griffin has filmed his and final show. "It's tough to say goodbye," Griffin said Wednesday as he put together an evening of nostalgia.

The last "Merv Griffin Show" minus an audience looked back at clips of shows that reflected changing newsmakers and stars from the time of John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. Griffin talked on the air with more than 25,000 guests over nearly 24 years. "It's been on my mind about a year to end the show," Griffin said after taping the 90-minute show. "But I felt if you're going to leave, it's better to leave when you're on top." The final show, which will be telecast Friday, Sept.

5, marks the passing of an era. Griffin began his first talk show on NBC on Oct. 1, 1962, on the same day and in the same studio that Johnny Carson did his first "Tonight Show." Within a year after the NBC afternoon show, he had his own syndicated talk series. In 1969, he went to CBS and became a late- The fiercely competitive Albuquerque radio market will add one more station when KKBR-FM signs on the air next month. The new adult rock 'n' roll station, located on the radio dial at 98.5, will be known as "The Bear." It is owned by Devine Communications, which also owns a station in Buffalo, N.Y., and one in Salt Lake City, where the company is headquartered.

Bill Evans, KKBR's operations manager, said the company bought the license and equipment from the now-defunct KKHJ-FM of Los Alamos, owned by Dean Burns. KKBR will occupy offices at North Point Plaza, 5700 Harper NE. It will transmit with 100,000 watts of power and will also cover Santa Fe, Los Alamos and surrounding communities. Its signal will be available to 41 percent of the New Mexico population, Evans said. The new station will feature news, sports, weather and traffic reports.

According to the last Arbitron radio ratings book, the Albuquerque market is dominated by KOB-AM and FM. "We believe we can be successful," Evans said. "We believe that we can make inroads on their demographics. After careful listen Merv Griffin taped his final show without an audience. caid's resignation "is an internal affair and I won't comment on it other than to say it had been resolved internally." Charles Moran, who has been program director of sister country station KRST-FM since 1980, when the station switched from a rock format, has been given the added title of program director for KRZY, replacing Kincaid.

Griffin, who recently sold his production company, said he also has contracts to produce two TV movies, several specials, a situation comedy and four game shows. He already produces "Wheel Of Fortune," "Jeopardy," and "Dance Fever." night rival to Carson until 1972, when he left and went back to syndication. Griffin said he will begin a new big band show called "The Coconut Ballroom" in prime time later this year on one of the three major networks. He declined to say which. NORTH 8-22-A 48 5 2 V7 5 KQ 10 9 A 9 6 WEST EAST QJ 10 97 4643 VJ 10 6 3 VQ94 542 863 3 K42 SOUTH A AK82 37 10 8 7 5 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South The bidding: South West North East 1 NT Pass 3 NT All pass Opening lead: Spade queen In general, a defender tries to prevent declarer from establishing one of dummy's long suits.

Sometimes though, there are other more important jobs at hand. South won his spade king and quickly led his diamond jack. East feared dummy's solid diamonds and made an unthinking duck. Since South was not foolish enough to give East another chance, he switched to clubs. East won his king and led a spade, but it was too late.

South could now claim nine running tricks. Although it was true that isolating dummy's diamonds might be a good idea, it was an idea for another hand on another day. In today's layout, dummy had a sure entry in clubs. There was therefore no reason to think about isolating dummy's diamonds. East should pounce on South's diamond jack and return a spade to establish West's suit.

With only eight tricks on top, South would be forced to try the club finesse, and when that lost, another spade lead to West's good spades would beat the game one trick. BID WITH THE ACES 8-22-B South holds: 8 5 2 Oprah Winfrey Challenges 'Donahue9 Jj rRT1 lI'vvY By Jerry Buck THE ASSOCIATED PRESS only happenstance that brought me to television," she said. "Quincy Jones saw me in Chicago and cast me for 'The Color Miss Winfrey was born in Mississippi, where she lived with her grandmother until age 6, when she was sent to live with her mother in Milwaukee. When she was 13, her mother had her committed to a juvenile detention home as a runaway. The home had no room for her, however, and she was sent to live with her father in Nashville, who imposed strict discipline.

At 19, when she was a college sophomore, she was a television reporter and had two years' experience on radio. In 1976 she moved to Baltimore as a news anchor. "They wanted to change my looks," she said. "They sent me to a hairdresser and a makeup artist. Then they sent me to New York and all my hair fell out.

I was a bald anchorwoman. I couldn't find a wig big enough. I spent a lot of time crying, so they put me on a talk show. "It was like breathing to me. I could be myself.

I discovered after the first show that 'this is know that. That's the beauty of good television. Good television should inform and inspire as well as entertain. So much of television is simply mindless." Miss Winfrey, 32, appears to be challenging "Donahue" as the top syndicated talk show. According to King World, which is distributing her show, Miss Winfrey and Donahue will be head-to-head in 25 percent of the cities.

"That's a challenging thing," Donahue said. "We're on a more competitive street now than we've been on. We're up. We're fascinated by the attention that's been generated. We think it's good for the daytime schedule." Miss Winfrey said she has nothing but respect for Donahue.

"Without Donahue this show wouldn't be possible," she said. "He showed that women have an interest in things that affect their lives and not just how to stuff a cabbage." Shi is an outgoing woman with a slightly larger-than-life theatrical flair for gestures, expressions and reactions. "I always wanted to be an actress and it was LOS ANGELES Oprah Winfrey is taking her brand of hands-on, emotionally involved talk show to a national audience in September. Viewers in 130 cities covering 90 percent of the country will have the opportunity to see why her Chicago show zoomed from third place to first in the ratings and moved ahead of Phil Donahue's nationally syndicated "Donahue." In Albuquerque, her one-hour show, taped before a live audience, will be syndicated on KOB-TV, Channel 4. It will premiere Sept.

8 and will run Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. Miss Winfrey, nominated this year for an Academy Award for her supporting performance as Sofia in "The Color Purple," hugs and cries and laughs with the people on her show. Like "Donahue," her show tackles such provocative subjects as sex, divorce and incest. "People have the power to make a difference in their lives," she said. "We want to let people Oprah Winfrey 7 5 KQ10 9 AQ96 For complete descriptive listings, check the Journal's Entertainer magazine every Friday.

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