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same but that the ticket-price scale for the concerts was higher way you look at he said was the most phenomenal thing that has ever happened to the Musiq II to reach far into Connecticut as well as into Manhattan although Polinger emphasized that the primary market is Long Island Polinger who is acting as temporary president has had previous broadcast experience as president of WNTA-TV Ho is planning to hire a president and general manager to run this new station in the near future Emanuel Zimmer a Syosset attorney and Clifford Robbins of West Hempstead are among the other stockholders in the firm II Art competition The Herricks High School art department 'is holding an art project competition open to all professional artists and art students in the metropolitan area A $1500 award will be paid the winning artist on completion of the selected project Contestants must submit their ideas to a review and award committee There are no guidelines for the artist except that the completed project be appropriate for exhibition either inside or outside of the Herricks High School building Detailed two-dimensional sketches or three-dimensional models must be submitted In irson or by registered mall to Michael Carbone Herricks High School Shelter Rock Road New Hyde Dark NY no later than Jan 14 The artist should Include an envelope with his name address and phone number with his entry For further details call 741-7800 Zero adds up Of all the unusual aspects of the recent on the Roof production at the Westbury Music Fair perhaps the most remarkable was that Zero Mostel could sound convincing when he sang I Were a Rich The Music Fair announced that the six-week run which ended Sunday broke several records Moreover during the period Music Fair officials said that the show outdistanced two significant competitors: the current new film version of in Manhattan and the that Mostel himself founded seven years ago which is still running on Broadway (with Jan Peerce as the newest in a long line of Tevyes) Finally Mostel earned $180000 for his Westbury engagement which Music Fair officials called largest amount of money ever paid to an actor in a legit musical in a six-week period in theater At Westbury grossed $874325 in six weeks of sellout audiences Approximately 140000 saw the show which opened as a four-week limited engagement on Oct 26 and was extended for another two weeks The average gross per week was $144000 Both the total and average grosses broke records for all theatrical productions in the 17-year history other production even came a Music Fair spokesman said Hie theater has had bigger per-week grosses for oonoerts including the recent appearances of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck The spokesman explained however that crowd sizes were the Hail Preminncr A one-month retrospective of 27 Otto Preminger films is showing at the Museum of Modem Art In Manhattan until Thursday The festival indudes his best known works among them and Bess and of a and Man With the iolden For dates and time schedules call 212 Commercial TV ior LI: A step closer By Thomas Collins Newiday Media Writer By the middle of 1973 Long Talanrf will have its first commercial television station concentrating on Nassau and Suffolk news and activities if all goes as planned by a group called Sidnuban Broadcasting Corp Suburban won approval by the Federal Communications Commission recently to construct and operate a UHF station using Ch 67 and the call letters WSNL-TV The and stand for Suffolk and Nassau and the for Long Island David Polinger of Huntington president and one at the major stockholders In the firm said yesterday that the group will invest $1000000 to build a 5000000jwatt transmitter and studios in both counties The address is in Pstchogue but it has not yet been determined where the studio facilities will be constructed It is possible the transmitter will go up in an area on Blydenburgh Road in Hauppauge expect to be on the air in Polinger said Polinger and Robert Rosen of Jamaica Estates president of Bell Television a conglomerate between them control about 43 per cent of the stock Eight other investors Including Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton each own slightly more than seven per cent The group acquired transfer of the construction permit from the estate of the late Theodore Gnrnik a TV station owner and producer of such shows as Wants to Granik had held the permit but had never acted on it The purchase price was $45000 which as TV licenses even UHF as opposed to is fairly inexpensive TV station licenses are almost as rare as taxi medallions and of course far more valuable Some established UHF stations have been sold for as much as $8000000 Suburban Broadcasting is moving into the UHF field at a time when the PCC has decreed that TV set manufacturers have to make UHF as easy to tune in as VHF Polinger said plan a unique station in that live programming will be 70 per cent of the broadcast The programming he said will concentrate on social cultural and political atmosphere on Long Island while providing entertainment at the same Local coverage will include sports news and entertainment High school and football games will be televised and the group hopes to get permission to televise town board meetings and concerts It plans to originate a number of shows including a live soap opera teenage programs and a quiz show There will be a full-time staff of about 30 Polinger said and hiring will begin in about six months He said he was looking for Long Islanders who are actors performers singers musicians announcers studio technicians engineers and advertising salesmen The station will not be tied into any of the networks he added As with any commercially run station revenue will come from local regional and national advertisers and Ch 67 will probably give tiw 14 radio stations on the Island a run for tiie advertising dollar It will also pose some programming competition for the only other television station Ch 21 the public television outlet Charles Bell station manager for Ch 21 wished the new station good luck is a good he said yesterday will keep both organizations working at a top WSNL-TVi signal will be powerful enough Oyster Bay teen winners Oyster Bay Town has awarded scholarships to seven teenaged actors and actresses to study and appear with the Teen Repertory Theater for the current season The group was selected from more than 50 applicants in auditions held by the cultural and performing arts division last fall In Waiting: Ed Lane center Ken Schwartzman right and Ray Wiehe in LI Studio for Godot tonight tomorrow in Lindenhurst 'I A Friday December 17 lf71.