Four Village Studio has won two first-place awards at this year's Alliance for Community Media, Northeast Regional Video Festival. The two honors were presented for an episode of Davidson & Co. and for the 4VS Community Board.

Producers Larry Davidson and James Green received a first-place award in the sports programming category for Davidson & Co. The subject of the winning program was an interview with author Mark Kriegel, who wrote a book chronicling the career of football legend Joe Namath.

The studio collected another first place award in the bulletin board/videotext category. 4VS Operations Manager James Green won for producing and maintaining the look of the 4VS Community Board.

The award-winning producers were acknowledged at a ceremony held at the Stratton Mountain Resort Inn in Stratton, VT, Saturday, Oct. 29. The annual regional festival accepts program entries from community television producers throughout New England and New York State. This is the eighth year that Four Village Studio has submitted entries to the festival, where approximately 500 programs competed for the top awards. 4VS has garnered 26 awards, in a wide variety of categories, since first entering the competition.

"I'm particularly pleased to receive such recognition for the 4VS Community Billboard," Green said. "It takes a lot of continuous effort to maintain, but it's worth it knowing that the best Community Billboard in the Northeast can be seen right here in the four-village area. I also wish to acknowledge and thank 4VS host Wes Houston for providing the majority of the Billboard's background music."

Four Village Studio will be re-broadcasting the winning episode of Davidson & Co. Monday, Jan. 2, and Thursday, Jan. 5, at 9 p.m. The 4VS Community Billboard can be seen every day in the villages of Bellerose, Floral Park, South Floral Park and Stewart Manor on Cablevision's Channel 18. 4VS programs air every Monday and Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.