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Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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PBS Revolution Discussion Continued…

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Documentary, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Local stories, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Uncategorized

Below is a thread that began several weeks ago (as reported here and here) on Revolution PBS, an anonymous blog. I’m picking up the thread mid-stream. If you haven’t seen the beginning, you can start with my post linked above and then the “Spoonful of Sugar” post picked up here.

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Sister station with a mission! WSKG has the best mission/vision/values that a station could ask for!

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

Thanks @AmyWoo and the Twitter Chat group #pubmedia for the tipoff to go read this statement.
About

Mission
Guided by your aspirations, WSKG serves to inspire with the highest quality educational programming, explore the arts, culture and heritage of the region and beyond, engage in thoughtful consideration of news and issues of importance, and entertain with the [...]

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Naturalist Mark Fraser with some summertime snake fun!

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Local stories, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media

Check out the latest video below from Mountain Lake Journal EXTRA’s frequent contributor – Adirondack naturalist Mark Fraser. He’s also got a new blog. Be sure to go visit his site and bookmark or better yet, subscribe to his blog feed (see my post from earlier tonight.)
You can also subscribe to his video channel [...]

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Notes on Milk | POV | PBS Video

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, PBS

via video.mountainlake.org
For anyone who missed the broadcast premiere of Food, Inc. last night on Mountain Lake PBS… here’s a less known short film from POV that aired immediately afterward. A lyrical 20 minute piece with a little known story that affects us all.

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Response to PBS Revolution

April 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs

Here is my response to the provocative site PBS revolution and the thoughtful post by John Proffitt posted yesterday.

Colin Powers said…
Like John, I’m interested to see how the dialogue develops on some of your provocative ideas. Anyone involved in the PBS system who doesn’t feel the pain of investing heavily in [...]

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Revolution PBS: Efficiency Idea 1

April 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view…

Efficiency Idea 1
In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will offer regular [...]

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A little late, but a nice glimpse at how we made last year’s documentary

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

This nice article described a little about our production of Forgotten War. The photographer was an intern how worked with us for several months.

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Live from SXSW: Viral video how-tos from the pros

March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Filmmaking, Multi-media

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By Merritt Colaizzi on March 15, 2010 | Comments (19)

The most fun — and still useful — panel I’ve attended at SXSW Interactive so far was Saturday’s How to Create a Viral Video. It doesn’t get much better than the three viral experts that Flux creative director Jonathan Wells brought together:

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PBS is getting pretty post-modern!

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Multi-media, PBS, PBS Distribution

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“Earth Days” PBS Documentary to Premiere on Facebook

Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 p.m. EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 p.m. EST on April 19.

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Nature in the North Country Photo Contest

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, History, Multi-media, PBS

March 18, 2010 is nature night on Mountain Lake PBS with the broadcast of Secrets of the Northern Forest and Rattlers, Peepers and Snappers starting at 9:00 p.m. We are celebrating the beauty of the North Country with a photo and video contest!
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