Mountain Lake PBS Productions

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

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Cirque du Soleil from Mountain Lake PBS

October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Local stories, PBS, PBS Distribution

via youtube.com Mountain Lake PBS’ newest production caps 2 1/2 years of work with one of Montreal’s greatest institutions… Cirque du Soleil. The program will be seen nationwide for two years as a PBS fundraiser. We’re thrilled to support public television while showcasing a great regional success story.

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MediaPost Publications

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Future of public media, Multi-media, PBS, PBS Distribution

Why Online Video Fails To Meet Its Lofty Expectations With television advertising being a $70 billion market and total online advertising weighing in at $22.7 billion for 2009, you can’t help but wonder why online video advertising only represents a $1 billion market. In fact, according to the IAB, video advertising grew from $734 million [...]

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PBS is getting pretty post-modern!

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

clipped from mashable.com “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. The film chronicles the [...]

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Forgotten War gets great numbers!!!

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

Forgotten War (see ealier post) will be uplinked to the PBS network on November 29th in both Standard and High Definition.  American Public Television reports that 205 stations (96 licensees) voted YES for coverage that equals 68% of the nation’s TV markets!  The list includes three of the biggest PBS stations around: WNET13, WGBH – Boston, and [...]

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Small station, big stories

September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, PBS, PBS Distribution

The title of this post is a pun on a new documentary that Mountain Lake PBS is presenting to PBS and American Public Television. Small Town, Big Dreams: The Lake Placid Olympic Story is a great program that arrives just in time for the Winter Games in Vancouver, BC. It covers both the 1932 and [...]

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Forgotten War going national

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

The one hour doc on the French & Indian War we just finished at Mountain Lake PBS has been offered to the PBS system by American Public Television one of the three major distributors to the PBS system (who, by the way, have the best guide to the tech side of producing for PBS that [...]

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