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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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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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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